A pair of
seriously perverse "Technicolor noirs" from the 1940s,
Desert Fury and
Leave Her to Heaven are two of the wackiest finds at the Noir City seriesâa week's worth of $10 double features launching the new year-round SIFF Cinema.
Oedipal passions! Gay gangsters! Obsessive love! Dreamboat Burt Lancaster and then icy-hot Gene Tierney!
These are not archetypal noirs, but they're dark as night. (
SIFF Cinema,
321 Mercer St,
www.seattlefilm.org. Desert Fury
at 1, 5:05, and 9:10 pm, Leave Her to Heaven
at 3 and 7 pm,
$10 for two consecutive shows.)