Eddie Muller

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Eddie Muller
Eddie Muller in 2006
Nationality	American
Education	San Francisco Art Institute
Genre	non-fiction

Eddie Muller is an American writer based in San Francisco. He is known for writing books about movies, particularly film noir, and is the host of Noir Alley on Turner Classic Movies (TCM).^[1]

Early life, family and education

Muller is the son of a famed San Francisco boxing writer of the same name. He is a second-generation San Franciscan.^[2]

Muller studied with filmmaker George Kuchar at the San Francisco Art Institute in the late 1970s.

Career

Muller is the founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation and is co-programmer of the San Francisco Noir City film festival. Muller is considered a noir expert and is called on to write and talk about the film genre, notably on wry commentary tracks for Fox's film noir series of DVDs and introducing Turner Classic Movies's weekly "Noir Alley" movie block. Every Saturday, Noir Alley visits classic noir films featuring some of the best set-ups and shake downs involving iconic antiheroes and the unforgettable, fatalistic dames they fall for.

Laura Sheppard, director of events at Mechanics Institute, was the first to call him "The Czar of Noir" (as recounted by Eddie Muller in conversation with Angie Coiro on the In Deep radio show recorded March 20, 2019, at Dragon Theater in Redwood City, California; the quote is often misattributed to the novelist James Ellroy.)

Muller based the character of Billy Nichols in his period crime novel The Distance after his father. The novel was named the Best First Novel of 2002 by the Private Eye Writers of America. Billy Nichols returned in the 2003 novel Shadow Boxer.

Books

Nonfiction

• (with Daniel Faris) Grindhouse: The Forbidden World of "Adults Only" Cinema (1996); ISBN 0-312-14609-4
• Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir (1998); ISBN 0-312-18076-4
• Dark City Dames: The Wicked Women of Film Noir (2001); ISBN 0-06-039369-6
• The Art Of Noir: The Posters & Graphics From The Classical Era Of Film Noir (2004); ISBN 1-58567-603-9
• (with Tab Hunter) Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star (2005); ISBN 1-56512-548-7
• Gun Crazy: The Origin of American Outlaw Cinema (2014); ISBN 978-0-692-26026-5
• Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir (Revised and Expanded Edition) (2021); ISBN 9780762498970

Fiction

• The Distance (2002); ISBN 0-7432-1443-9
• Shadow Boxer (2003); ISBN 0-7432-1444-7

DVD commentaries

• 99 River Street
• Angel Face
• The Big Combo
• Born to Kill, with audio interview excerpts of director Robert Wise
• Crime Wave, with crime novelist James Ellroy
• Fallen Angel, with Susan Andrews (daughter of actor Dana Andrews)
• Gilda
• The House on 92nd Street
• The House on Telegraph Hill
• I Wake Up Screaming
• The Lineup, with crime novelist James Ellroy
• Macao, with screenwriter Stanley Rubin and actress Jane Russell
• Mau Mau Sex Sex, with director Ted Bonnitt
• No Way Out
• The Racket
• Road House, with film noir historian Kim Morgan
• The Prowler
• The Sniper
• Somewhere in the Night
• They Live by Night, with actor Farley Granger
• Where the Sidewalk Ends

References

External links

• Official web site
• Film Noir Foundation
• Eddie Muller at IMDb
• Interview with Matthew Sorrento at Bright Lights Film Journal
• Interview with Rudy Cecera for Screen Comment