For too many filmgoers, film noir is represented only by genre-transcending classics like Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard. Eddie Muller’s annual Noir City fest is dedicated to righting that wrong via a weeklong cavalcade of great deep-genre noir. Tonight’s double feature includes two unavailable-on-DVD delights from 1932: Tay Garnett’s Okay America, a pre-code exposé of the greasy relationship between politics, the media, and the mob, and Edward L. Cahn’s police-corruption thriller Afraid to Talk. (SIFF Cinema at the Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave N, www.siff.net, Okay America 7 pm, Afraid to Talk 9:30 pm, $12 for both)

David Schmader—former weed columnist and Stranger associate editor—is the author of the solo plays Straight and Letter to Axl, which he’s performed in Seattle and across the US. His latest...