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- The Big Bluff (1955): The bitter flavour of festering reality
- The Story of Temple Drake (1933): The good bad-girl
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- “All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun”
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- Film Noir FAQ: A great new book on Film Noir
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- The Big Knife (1955): Bore me deadly
- Noir Poet – Kenneth Fearing: “appeals urged across kitchen tables and the fury that shouts them down”
- Jigsaw (1949): “like the last act of Hamlet”
- Highway 301 (1950): “a straight exercise in low sadism”
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- Cinematic Cities: New York – The Noir Years
- La Bionda (The Blonde – Italy 1992)
- Hudson, NY: Scenes from Odds Against Tomorrow Then and Now
- Wicked Women: “transforming sexist into sexy”
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- New Film Noir Poster Book: “Where Danger Lives’
Archive for July, 2011
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![UK film writer Philip French in the Observer in 2009 related that Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) “was the favourite film of Jean-Pierre Melville, who saw it 120 times before directing his noir masterwork Le deuxième soufflé [1966]”. I can share this enthusiasm...](http://filmsnoir.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/oat7-115x115.jpg "Robert Wise’s Odds Against Tomorrow (1959): A Work of Art")
Robert Wise’s Odds Against Tomorrow (1959): A Work of Art
Posted on July 24, 2011 | 12 CommentsUK film writer Philip French in the Observer in 2009 related that Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) “was the favourite film of Jean-Pierre Melville, who saw it 120 times before directing his noir masterwork Le deuxième soufflé [1966]”. I can share this enthusiasm... -
Tarkovsky’s Ubiytsy (‘The Killers’ USSR – 1956): A wounded God bereft of hope
Posted on July 18, 2011 | 6 CommentsUbiytsy (‘The Killers’ USSR – 1956)... -
Dans l’ombre: In the shadow – Fantastic New Noir Short
Posted on July 13, 2011 | 1 CommentThe very talented Fabrice Mathieu from France has produced a great video homage to noir based on clips from over 50 movies as a prequel... -
Manhattan Metropolis: Manhatta (1921)
Posted on July 13, 2011 | No CommentsFrom Paul Strand's 10min documentary short film Manhatta (1921)... View Paul Strand's 10min documentary short film Manhatta (1921) here... -
For Real: Manhattan Tenement 1942
Posted on July 13, 2011 | No CommentsStore fronts below brick tenement (1942): Charles W. Cushman Photography Collection / Indiana University Archives -
New British Gilda Poster For Digitally Restored Cinema Release
Posted on July 7, 2011 | 4 CommentsThe UK-based classic film distributer Park Circus to accompany its upcoming cinema release of a digitally restored print of the 1946 film noir classic, Gilda, have produced a new poster... -
Film Noir: TIME Magazine Beat the French by 15 Years!
Posted on July 6, 2011 | 4 CommentsIt is not so much Mamoulian's inventive camera angles and breakthrough use of voice-over in a Hollywood talkie, or the consummate chiaroscuro lensing by DP Lee Garmes... -
Cinematic Cities: Paramount Studios, Astoria, Queens, New York City 1931
Posted on July 2, 2011 | 1 CommentCity Streets (1931) Speakeasy delivery convoy…...
