Noir Restorations and Rarities Lead the Way at the 2026 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in Palm Springs

By Chris Willman

Chris Willman

Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic

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Film fans appreciate “The Lion in Winter,” but a select group of them in Southern California also have a thing for the Arthur Lyons in spring. That is, the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival, which takes place each May in Palm Springs. The four-day fest, set to run Thursday night through Sunday afternoon, offers a hefty dose of filmic darkness to the sun-soaked locals but also a good excuse for Los Angeles cineastes to take a drive out for a long weekend, with plenty of hard- or impossible-to-see rarities on tap as a reward.

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