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Archive for December, 2010
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Fate: “a belly-laugh on Olympus”
Posted on December 31, 2010 | No CommentsThe gods, like most other practical jokers, have a habit of repeating themselves too often -
Great Noir Posters: Trapped (1949)
Posted on December 30, 2010 | No CommentsA really stunning graphic poster... -
Plato and Noir: “Incoherence partly resolved”
Posted on December 27, 2010 | 3 Comments“The effect of this dialogue... is not to offer the reader a system, a structure of propositions, but to disturb and upset him in a certain way, to leave him in a kind of radical distress.” -
A Shooting Star: The Noir Dialectic
Posted on December 22, 2010 | 1 CommentSeen a shooting star tonight And... -
“The Ape under the Velvet”
Posted on December 20, 2010 | 1 CommentThe small, tired eyes stared into... -
Noir Poets: Abraham Polonsky
Posted on December 17, 2010 | 3 CommentsI had forgotten Doris for a... -
Tension (1950): A house in the suburbs? “Are you kidding?”
Posted on December 14, 2010 | 1 CommentA reversal of sex roles so potent it has to rank as one of the best expositions in noir of the femme-noir as ball-breaker... -
At the Speed of Noir: Dames in Cars
Posted on December 13, 2010 | 2 CommentsDark roads, desperate dames, and hoodlum... -
James Gunn’s ‘Deadlier than the Male’: Psychology of the Femme-Fatale
Posted on December 8, 2010 | 2 CommentsHelen Brent had the best-looking legs... -
Great Noir Posters: Erotic licence
Posted on December 5, 2010 | 3 Comments
