Eddie Muller introduces "Laura" (1944), Noir City, Seattle 2/25/2012

The Czar of Film Nor introduces Otto Preminger's classic film as the second part of an amazing double bill along with "Gilda" (1946). Recorded on the second day of Noir City 2012 at the SIFF Cinema at the Uptown.

[@fjp3305]

Eddie Muller is the best. Nobody knows more about film noir than him. I'd be listening to him all day long.

[@agenttheater5]

YAY!!!! Laura AND Gilda!!!!!

[@vlaekershner7305]

Gilda doesn't belong on the same double-bill with Laura.

[@RanBlakePiano]

Laura still haunts me

[@michaelharrington7656]

Thank you. Laura is a fine film with an excellent cast, but it is not film noir in my opinion. It is a romantic high society murder mystery, something quite different morally , socially, and pychologically. Go foward a few years to Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney in Where The Sidewalk Ends and you've got the real deal.

[@RSEFX]

Good film, good performances. Never cared for the photographic approach, and that kind of "overcast" lighting didn't help create much of a mood. But.....nothing's perfect.

[@johnstrawb3521]

I seem to be alone in evaluating Laura as a pleasant but lacking melodrama. Dana Andrews is abysmal at suggesting hidden depths of pain, instead glowering throughout. Gene Tierney is gorgeous, of course, but that's all she's capable of contributing. Clifton Webb's popinjay adds little, and Vincent Price is all wrong for his part. It's the weak cast, really, that undoes Laura, while Joseph LaShelle's cinematographer adds only modest pleasures. 6/10, I'm sorry to say.

[@davidhull1481]

Luckily, you are in the minority.