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Film Noir DVDs Available at Amazon: Full List

A Double Life (1947)
Against All Odds (1984)
Anatomy Of A Murder (1959)

Angel Face

Angel Face (1953)
Another Man’s Poison (1951)
Black Angel (1946)
Bob le Flambeur (1955)
Body And Soul (1947)
Boomerang (1947)
Born to Kill (1947)
Breathless (1960)
Brute Force (1947)
C-Man (1949)
Call Northside 777 (1948)
Chinatown (1974)
Classic Film Noir
Cold Around the Heart (1997)
Collector’s Classics: Film Noir
Color of Night (1994)
Crime of Passion (1957)
Criss Cross (1948)
Crossfire (1947)
Dark City: Lost World of Film Noir
Dark Passage (1947)
Deadly Pursuits (1996)
Detour (1946)
Diabolique (1954)
DOA (1950)
Double Indemnity (1944)
East Side Kids (1940)
Fallen Angel (1945)
Farewell My Lovely (1975)
Fear in the Night (1947)
Film Noir - Quicksand/Scarlet Street/Suddenly (1954)
Film Noir Classics Collection(s)
Film Noir Collection - Gilda/In A Lonely Place/The Killers/Double Indemnity
Film Noir Double Feature(s)
Film Noir Pack: Postman Always Rings Twice/Dark Passage/Bad and the Beautiful
Film Noir Thrillers (1945)
Film Noir: Killer Classics (1946)
Film Noir: The Dark Side of Hollywood
Film Noir: The Stranger/Borderline/He Walked Night/Call It Murder/The Red House/DOA/Kansas
Force Of Evil (1948)
Forgotten Noir
Forgotten Noir Collector’s Set
Forgotten Noir: Kit Parker Double Features
Fox Film Noir
Raw Deal (1948)
T-Men (1947)
Gilda (1946)

Gun  Crazy

Gun Crazy (1949)
Hammer Film Noir Collector’s Set
Hard Eight (1997)
He Walked Night (1948)
High and Low (1962)
Hommage A Noir Hommage a Noir (DVD - 2006)
I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
In A Lonely Place (1950)
Jigsaw (1949)
Key Largo (1948)
Killer’s Kiss (1955)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Kiss of Death (1947)
Laura (1944)
Le Corbeau (1943)
Leave Her To Heaven (1946)
Lured (1947)
Man in the Vault (1956)
Max Allen Collins: The Black Box Collection: Shades of Neo-Noir (2006)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Mr Arkadin (1955)
Naked City (1948)
Natural City (2003)
Niagara (1952)
Night and the City (1950)
Nightmare Alley (1947)
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
On Dangerous Ground
Out of the Past (1947)
Possessed (1947)
Pulp Cinema
Quai des Orfevres (1947)
Quicksand (1950)
Railroaded (1947)
Raw Deal (1948)
Ring of Fear (1955)
Scarlet Street (1945)
Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
Shoot to Kill (1947)
Slightly Scarlet (1956)
Somewhere in the Night (1946)
Strange Illusion (1945)
Strange Impersonation (1946)
Strangers On A Train (1951)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
T-Men (1947)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
The Best Of Film Noir (2000)
The Big Clock (1948)

The Big Combo

The Big Combo (1955)
The Big Heat (1953)
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Blue Dahlia (1946)
The Blue Gardenia (1953)
The Blue Iguana (1988)
The Chase (1947)
The Cover Up (1949)
The Dark Corner (1946)
The Enforcer (1951)
The Girl From Rio (1939)
The Harder They Fall (1956)
The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)
The Killers (1946)
The Killing (1956)
The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
The Long Night (1947)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Naked City (1948)
The Night Of The Hunter (1955)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
The Scar (1948)
The Second Woman (1951)
The Set-Up (1949)
The Spiral Staircase (1946)
The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers (1946)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers - Lady of Burlesque (1946)
The Stranger (1946)
The Sweet Smell Of Success (1957)
The Thief (1952)
The Third Man (1949)
The Third Man - Criterion Collection (1949)
The Ultimate Film Noir Collection
Therese Raquin (1953)
They Made Me a Fugitive (1947)
They Made Me a Killer (1946)
Thieves’ Highway (1949)
This Gun for Hire (1942)
Too Late for Tears (1949)
Touch Of Evil (1958)
Tough Luck (2003)
Triple Cross (2004)
Ultimate Film Noir Collection
Union City (1979)
Vertigo (1958)
Western Film Noir
Wet Asphalt (1958)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)

> DVDs, Films, Lists, Lobby — Tony D'Ambra @ 2:48 am

May 26, 2007


Director Sam Fuller Featured at Moving Image

Through to June 10, Astoria’s Museum of the Moving Image will present the first comprehensive retrospective of this director’s films since his death in 1997.

Pick Up On South Street

The noir films included are “Pickup on South Street” (1953) and “Underworld USA” (1961), “Shock Corridor” (1963), “The Naked Kiss” (1964), “The Big Red One” (1980) and the controversial “White Dog” (1982), a study of racial hatred that Paramount Pictures chose not to release in the United States at the time of its completion because of its subject matter.

> Directors, Films, Lobby, News — Tony D'Ambra @ 8:35 am

May 25, 2007


Film Noir Summer School

NEW LONDON, Conn. - Connecticut College will offee a “Film Noir” course June 11 - July 16, Mondays and Wednesdays, 6:15 to 10 p.m. by Fred Guida.

“[The Course] will focus on Hollywood films depicting a dark, gloomy and cynical world of corruption and despair.”

For detailed information, go to: www.conncoll.edu/academics/aca_summer_session.htm

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NoirBlog’s Master List of Films Noir

This blog has posted a Film Noir - The Master List.

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May 24, 2007


Films Noir in the New York Times Best 1000 Films

There are 32 films noir, as listed in my Films Noir Catalog, that also appear in the New York Times Best 1000 Films (which are not ranked):

Crossfire (1947)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Force of Evil (1948)
High Sierra (1941)
Laura (1944)
M (1931)
M (1951)
Midnight (1934)
Notorious (1946)
Ossessione (1943)
Out of the Past (1947)
Pickup on South Street (1953)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Suspicion (1941)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
The Big Clock (1948)
The Big Heat (1953)
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Killers (1946)
The Letter (1940)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
The Scoundrel (1935)
The Set-Up (1949)
The Third Man (1949)
The Verdict (1946)
They Live by Night (1948)
Touch of Evil (1958)
White Heat (1949)
You Only Live Once (1937)

> Lists, Lobby — Tony D'Ambra @ 10:01 am

The Racket (1951) on Turner Classic Movies this Friday

The Racket (1951): May 25 2007 Turner Classic Movies

The Racket

“The Racket boldly begins where the Senate crime committee left off!” The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon…

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May 23, 2007


New Film Noir DVDs: The Third Man (1949) and Scarface (1932)

The Third Man (Criterion US$40)

The Third Man

With Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Alida Valli and Trevor Howard in a
classic film noir set in World War II Vienna. Penned by Graham Greene
and directed by Carol Reed, it features provocative performances and off-kilter
atmospheric shots of Vienna, wherec it was shot on location.

This new two-disc set includes a new, restored high-definition
digital transfer of the British version of the film and great extras.
Commentaries by Steven Soderbergh and writer Tony Gilroy, and film
historian Dana Polan , a 2005 documentary, Shadowing ‘The Third Man,
a 1968 episode from the BBC’s Omnibus series featuring a rare interview
with GrahameGreene, and an unusual 2000 Australian documentary Who Was
the Third Man?

Scarface (Universal US$15)

Scarface

Howard Hawks’ seminal 1932 gangster movie. The rise and fall of mobster Tony
Camonte (Paul Muni).

> DVDs, Films, Lobby, News — Tony D'Ambra @ 10:53 am

May 22, 2007


Coming soon… A Complete Catalog of Film Noir from the 40s and 50s

The on-line catalog has been updated and now lists 684 noir, proto-noir, and crossover-noir  movies, with full production details.

The listing is fully searchable and can be filtered by Year of Production, Country of Origin, Language, and related genres.

The Films Noir Catalog

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May 21, 2007


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