"Now Listen to Me..."
Just some thoughts on current happenings:
Classic film screenings from around the world this July include:
The Third Man
In New York City, New York, Film Forum has held over (through Thursday, July 9)
The Third Man (1949, a Brand new 35mm print photochemically printed from original film elements)
Click on the movie image for more information and on the Film Forum banner for other motion pictures playing this month.
In Los Angeles, California The Beverly Cinema will present Heat (1995, a 35mm print) on Friday, July 3, Saturday, July 4 and Sunday, July 5.
Click on the poster image for more information on this presentation. To see the rest of July’s schedule, click on The Beverly Cinema banner above.
In Hollywood (part of greater Los Angeles) California, The Vista Theater will present Jaws (1975, a 35mm print) on Friday, July 3, Saturday, July 4 and Sunday, July 5 at 10 am only.
To discover more about the screening of Jaws or the other films playing this month at the Vista Theater, click on either of the above images.
In London, United Kingdom The Prince Charles Cinema will present Heat (1995, a 35mm print) Saturday, July 4, Thursday, July 23 and Friday, July 31, Mulholland Dr. (2001, a 35mm print) Tuesday, July 7 and Wednesday, July 22, The Red Shoes (1948, a 35mm print) Wednesday, July 8, Brief Encounter (1945, a 35mm print) Sunday, July 12, Harakiri (1962) Monday, July 13, The Ascent (1977) Tuesday, July 14, Troy (2004, a 35mm print) Friday, July 17, The Long Goodbye (1973, a 35mm print) Sunday, July 19, The Searchers (1956, a 70mm print) Saturday, July 25, Tuesday, July 28 and Friday, July 31, The Night of the Hunter (1955) Monday, July 27, and The Battle of Algiers (1966) on Tuesday, July 28.
* Note: Some of the showtimes are matinees only.
Click on the film’s respective image for more information. To see July’s complete programming, click on The Prince Charles Cinema banner above.
Some Like it Hot
In Valencia, Spain, Culturarts Generalitat IVAC – La Filmoteca at the Edificio Rialto will present Some Like it Hot (1959, as part of their BILLY WILDER series) on Saturday, July 4 and Sunday, July 5.
Click on the film’s image for more information on this screening. To discover more of July’s programming including other films playing in Valencia, Spain at the Edificio Rialto, Castelló, Spain at the Raval Theatre and the Paranimf of the Universitat Jaume I, and in Alicante Spain at the Arniches Theatre, click on the banner image above.
In theatres across the U.S. Flashback Cinema is presenting Jaws (1975) on Saturday, July 4, Sunday, July 5 and Wednesday, July 8.
Click on the poster image for more information on this screening. To see the entire month’s programming, click on The Flashback Cinema banner above.
The Searchers
Cleopatra
Inception
In Santa Monica (part of greater Los Angeles) California, The American Cinematheque Aero Theatre will present The Searchers (1956, a 70mm print, as part of their ‘Ultra Cinematheque 70 Fest 2026’ series, celebrating the film’s 70th Anniversary) Sunday, July 5, Cleopatra (1963, Rare archival 70mm print, as part of their ‘Ultra Cinematheque 70 Fest 2026’ series) Sunday, July 12, and Inception (2010, a 70mm print, as part of their ‘Ultra Cinematheque 70 Fest 2026’ series) on Tuesday, July 14.
* Note: Some of the showtimes are matinees only.
For more information on any of these programmes, click on the respective film image above. To see the entire month of July’s programming including other films showing at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, The Los Feliz 3 Theatre in Los Feliz (also part of greater Los Angeles), and the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood (also part of greater Los Angeles), click on the American Cinematheque banner.
In theatres across the U.S., Fathom Entertainment is presenting Citizen Kane (1941, an 85th Anniversary presentation) on Sunday, July 5 and Wednesday, July 8.
Click on the poster image for more information on this screening. To see more scheduling, click on The Fathom Events banner above.
In Culpeper Virginia, The Library of Congress at the James Madison Building, Pickford Theater is presenting The Swimmer (1968, a 35mm print) on Thursday, July 9.
Click on the poster image for more information on this film’s screening. To see the rest of July’s schedule, click on the Packard Campus image above.
Noir City will take place in New York, New York from July 10 - 19.
The programme reads:
The Paris Theater—Manhattan’s last remaining single-screen movie palace—is proud to present NOIR CITY: NEW YORK, from Friday, July 10 through Sunday, July 19. Co-presented with the Film Noir Foundation and hosted by its president, the legendary “Czar of Noir” Eddie Muller, NOIR CITY stands as the world’s premier annual celebration of film noir. After 23 years as a flagship event in the Bay Area—and expanding to acclaimed satellite festivals in Los Angeles, Portland, Chicago, and beyond– NOIR CITY: NEW YORK marks the festival’s long-awaited New York City debut, with a 10-day festival showcasing 32 feature films, with special in-person introductions, short films and an opening night musical performance by Elizabeth Bougerol.
From July 10 - 16, NOIR CITY: NEW YORK will present ‘Face the Music!’, a 16-film program of crime and mystery films featuring . . . musicians! From early examples of Hollywood noir like Blues in the Night (1941) to jazz-fueled sixties’ gems like All Night Long (1962) and A Man Called Adam (1966), the movies feature genuine musical legends like Elvis Presley, Sammy Davis Jr., Hoagy Carmichael, and Doris Day performing alongside film noir favorites including Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Ida Lupino, Kirk Douglas, Ann Sheridan, and Rita Hayworth. Featuring: All Night Long • Black Angel • Blues in the Night* • The Crimson Canary* • Hangover Square • King Creole • Love Me or Leave Me • A Man Called Adam • The Man I Love • The Man With the Golden Arm* • Nora Prentiss • Sweet Smell of Success • To Have and Have Not* • The Yellow Canary • Young Man with a Horn
Additionally, NOIR CITY: NEW YORK will present ‘Dead End Streets,’ a collection of some of the genre’s all-time favorites, with special attention paid to noir set in New York. This section will include the East Coast premieres of new 4K Restorations of Jacques Tourneur’s Out of the Past (1947) starring Robert Mitchum, and Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) featuring a memorably unsettling Peter Lorre – both restorations are from the films’ original nitrate camera negative. We’re also presenting noir greats Double Indemnity, In a Lonely Place, and Ace in the Hole, as well as New York-centric titles such as Killer’s Kiss, The Big Clock, Guilty Bystander and many more! Featuring: Ace in the Hole • The Big Clock • Blast of Silence • Cry of the City • Double Indemnity • Force of Evil • Guilty Bystander • In a Lonely Place • Killer's Kiss • Out of the Past • Phantom Lady • Pickup on South Street • Sorry, Wrong Number* • Stranger on the Third Floor • Touch of Evil • The Window*
*35mm print
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In Auckland, New Zealand, Academy Cinemas is presenting Mulholland Drive (2001, a 25th Anniversary presentation) on Saturday, July 11.
To obtain more information on this programme, click on the poster image. To see July’s complete schedule, click on the Academy banner above.
North by Northwest
In San Francisco, California, The Roxie Theatre will present North by Northwest (1959, a 35mm print, as part of their Fraenkel Film Festival) on Saturday, July 11.
For more information on this showing, click on the movie image above. For more information on the other films being presented at The Roxie, click on the theatre picture.
Planet of the Apes
In Lyon, France the Institut Lumiere is presenting Planet of the Apes (1968, as part of their SCIENCE FICTION series) on Sunday, July 12 at 2:30 pm only and Thursday, July 16.
Click on the film image above for more information on this screening. Click on the Institut logo for all of the films showing this month.
In Como (part of greater Perth) Western Australia, The Revival House will present Malcolm (1986, a 35mm print, a 40th Anniversary presentation) on Sunday, July 19 at 1 pm only.
Click on the poster image for more information on this screening. To see the other films showing this month, click on the theatre banner above.
In Sydney, Australia The Ritz Theatre will present Chinatown (1974, a 35mm print) on Friday, July 24.
Click on the film image for more information on this screening. For other films playing at The Ritz Theatre, click on the banner above.
FILM NOIR 2026
In Vancouver, British Columbia, The Cinematheque is presenting
FILM NOIR 2026
The programme reads:
“The most American film genre, because no society could have created a world so filled with doom, fate, fear, and betrayal, unless it were essentially naïve and optimistic.”
Roger Ebert
Summer brings its usual dose of darkness to The Cinematheque courtesy of film noir, that irresistibly unsavoury school of mid-century American moviemaking defined by its emblematic aesthetics and obsession with bad behaviour.
This season, we’re drawing from the postwar catalogue to assemble a murderers’ row of eight gripping crime thrillers, each haunted in its own way by the tremors of WWII. Half of the films arrive in brand-new restorations, with perhaps Robert Siodmak’s unassailable 1946 classic The Killers the showpiece of the restored lineup. Of those noirs receiving premiere status in our series, none cast a shadow longer than They Live by Night, Nicholas Ray’s landmark debut and historically unbookable film this side of the border. To celebrate its overdue anointment, we’re juxtaposing it with New Hollywood heavyweight Robert Altman’s Thieves Like Us, a dissimilarly great adaptation of the same source material. We also pay tribute to Marilyn Monroe, born a century ago this year, with screenings of her Technicolor noir Niagara, famous for elevating MM to Hollywood’s A‑list.
Our sidebar, meanwhile, detours to ’90s Japan for a trilogy of postmodern neo-noirs by Hayashi Kaizo. Each stars screen idol Nagase Masatoshi (Mystery Train) as private eye Maiku Hama, an ironic homage to the Mickey Spillane pulp antihero of, among others, Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly (also screening).
Join us on opening night for a ’50s-themed courtyard shindig before Niagara, featuring vinyl jazz, boozy beverages, and the latest drop of noir merchandise.
From July 30–August 27, 2026
Click on the respective image above for more information on the Film Noir series.
For all of the films scheduled this month at The Cinematheque, click on the theatre banner above.
These are the reviewed films showing on Turner Classic Movies in the U.S. this month:
My first recommendation is Robert Siodmak's expert 1949 film Criss Cross with Burt Lancaster and Yvonne De Carlo imbuing their characters with passion and complex individuality.
Criss Cross was previously reviewed here. It will cast its noirish spell on Friday, July 3 at 8 pm PDT.
TCM is bringing back Bringing Up Baby (1938) previously recommended here. "Baby" will be brought back and up on Sunday, July 5 at 9 am PDT.
Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant
Then there’s 1974's Freebie and the Bean. This is a cautious recommendation since it is one of my personal Top Ten Guilty Treasures and is about as non-P.C. as a film can get. Previously reviewed here, viewers can catch this pair’s highly irreverent act Monday, July 6 at 6:30 am PDT.
(From left) Alan Arkin, James Caan
A pre-code charmer sure to delight fans is Blonde Crazy (1931) with Jimmy Cagney and Joan Blondell enchanting as a couple of cons. This recommendation was previously made here and will appear Tuesday, July 7 at 9:15 am PDT.
Joan Blondell, James Cagney
Bad Day at Black Rock, reviewed here, is 1955's modern-day take on the American Western. This exceptional day will take place Thursday, July 9 at 6:30 am PDT.
(From left) Russell Collins, Walter Brennan, Spencer Tracy (seated), Dean Jagger, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan
TCM is making available to its subscribers, one of film noir's finest, 1950’s Gun Crazy, previously reviewed here. Noir's most distinguishing feature, a focus on the criminal participants' psychology, marks a major shift regarding motive. In the earlier "gangster" films, money and power provided enough reason for the pursuit of illegal gains whereas in noir, the internal cause behind the action is paramount, and runs so much deeper... and darker. The dark deeds will ensue Friday, July 10 at 7 pm PDT.
Peggy Cummins, John Dall
Also on TCM’s agenda is the Neo-noir Bullitt (1968), one of Steve McQueen’s most iconic characterisations. Reviewed here, Bullitt will speed its way onto TCM Saturday, July 11 at 2:45 pm PDT.
A John Huston directed motion picture, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is indeed an unforgettable American treasure and a prior TCM recommendation here. Its cinematic storytelling riches can be uncovered on TCM Saturday, July 11 at 5 pm PDT.
Stanley Kubrick took the entire film community, along with noir fans, by (a perfect) storm with his innovative 1956 take on the caper genre, The Killing, previously recommended here. "The best-laid plans..." will be presented on TCM Saturday, July 11 at 7:15 pm PDT.
That's actually Rodney Dangerfield in the crowd (Standing on the ground, second from the right).
TCM's current monthly schedule can be confirmed by clicking on any of the above TCM related images. To confirm the correct Pacific Daylight (West Coast) showtime information, subtract 3 hours from the Eastern Daylight (East Coast) showtime listed on TCM’s schedule.
(To be continued… ) A.G.