The 9th Annual San Francisco Film Noir Festival is headed back to the Castro theater January 21-30, with 24 films in 10 days. This year's theme is "Who’s Crazy Now?" and includes Oscar-winning performances by Ingrid Bergman (Gaslight) and Ronald Colman (A Double Life), as well as obscure rarities, "all presented as originally intended, in glorious 35mm celluloid, in a movie palace, before an appreciative audience."
Lee Goldberg's short mystery film Remaindered has been chosen for the 2011 Derby City Film Festival in Louisville, Kentucky. The film is about a writer whose promising writing career is now reduced to signing books in small-town grocery stores. In one such small Kentucky town he meets Megan, the town librarian, and that's when things really begin to go downhill.
Martin Scorsese is teaming up with Robert De Niro for the first time since 1995 in a gangster movie about mob hitman Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran. Based on Charles Brandt's 2004 book I Heard You Paint Houses, the screenplay is being written by Steven Zaillian (Mission Impossible, American Gangster, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo).
TV
A&E has given the go-ahead to two pilots, one of which, The Package Deal, is based on the mystery series written by Craig Johnson featuring Walt Longmire, a local sheriff in rural Wyoming. The other pilot is Big Mike, about a plus-sized detective and "a force of nature" in the San Diego PD.
If you're in the UK, tune in the TV series based on Michael Dibdin's fictional Italian detective Aurelio Zen, which premieres January 2 on BBC One. It actually starts with the second book in the series, Vendetta, and stars Rufus Sewell as Aurelio Zen. For an interview with Sewell and more about the program, check out the BBC's site.
Speaking of the BBC, during the Christmas holidays BBC4 is airing the original feature-length episodes starring Rolf Lassgard as Henning Mankell's rumpled detective Wallander, which predated the Kenneth Branagh version.
PODCASTS/RADIO
The 31st episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Don Winslow, author of the critically-acclaimed novel Savages.
Blog Talk Radio had author CJ West chatting with Leighton Gage, creator of the Chief Inspector Mario Silva mystery series, whose latest installment, Every Bitter Thing, is a procedural that investigates a bizarre string of murders in Brazil.
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