Seattle PI:
Since the ’70s, noir has become the most popular of all revival genres — especially in Seattle, which can boast the country’s longest-running and most influential film-noir series in the Seattle Art Museum’s annual (and always sold-out) “Film Noir Cycle.” The genre is such a hot ticket in this city, in fact, that in 2007 the new SIFF Cinema saw room for another ambitious noir revival series and launched its own version of the SAM event. So Seattle now has two major film-noir retrospectives every year. The SAM series, which concluded its 31st edition in December, takes place Thursday nights through much of the fall, and the SIFF Cinema version, “Noir City,” which takes place over one intense week in February, kicked off its third edition last week.