This year's pungent, smoldering and foreboding-filled Yule Log from the Film Noir Foundation hits the silver screen at San Francisco's Castro Theatre on Wednesday evening. The show features a Merry Noir Christmas film which would later inspire the 1964 Bette Davis vehicle Dead Ringer. Buy tickets for Noir City Xmas here.
In La Otra (a.k.a. The Other One), a brooding revenge drama set at Christmastime, the always stunning Dolores del Rio stars in a dual role as estranged twin sisters - one, a chronically depressed and poverty-stricken manicurist, the other a wife of an extremely wealthy man - who meet again and soon see their lives get turned upside down, backwards and sideways.
La Otra, shot by the brilliant cinematographer Alex Phillips, was the first production from Dolores del Rio's independent company, as well as the initial collaboration between director Roberto Gavaldón and screenwriter (and also activist, prolific novelist and short story author) José Revueltas, who quickly made names for themselves as Mexico's top filmmakers. For more info on Mr. Gavaldón's career, check out Will Noah's book, Roberto Gavaldón: Mexico’s Auteur of Noir.
The 2020 Noir City Festival transpires a few weeks from now at the Castro Theatre on January 24-February 2.
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