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Eddie Muller is an American writer based in San Francisco and is a second-generation San Franciscan per his website. He is known for writing books about movies, particularly film noir. Founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation, and 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.
Novelist James Ellroy has dubbed him "The Czar of Noir". Muller studied with filmmaker George Kuchar at the San Francisco Art Institute in the late 1970s.
Muller is the son of a famed San Francisco boxing writer of the same name, whom he used as the basis for the character of Billy Nichols in his period crime novel The Distance, which 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
Fiction
- The Distance (2002); ISBN 0-7432-1443-9
- Shadow Boxer (2003); ISBN 0-7432-1444-7
DVD commentaries
- Angel Face
- 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 Sniper
- Somewhere in the Night
- They Live by Night, with actor Farley Granger
- Where the Sidewalk Ends