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Recent Posts
- The Big Bluff (1955): The bitter flavour of festering reality
- The Story of Temple Drake (1933): The good bad-girl
- The PI as Anarchist
- “All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun”
- The French have a name for it: noir
- Film Noir FAQ: A great new book on Film Noir
- The Unreliable Narrator: Caligari, Rashomon, and the art of the B-Movie
- 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”
- Marlowe: “I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn’t care who knew it.”
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- La Bionda (The Blonde – Italy 1992)
- Hudson, NY: Scenes from Odds Against Tomorrow Then and Now
- Wicked Women: “transforming sexist into sexy”
- Cigar Joe’s Latest Homage to Film Noir: Girl Trap
- New Film Noir Poster Book: “Where Danger Lives’
Archive for December, 2011
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All I want for Christmas
Posted on December 23, 2011 | 1 Commenta noir car -
Noir City X: San Francisco Jan 20-29
Posted on December 21, 2011 | 1 CommentNOIR CITY celebrates its 10th anniversary with a 10-day San Francisco program at the Castro Theatre starting January 29, 2012 celebrating Frisco noir, including a brand new 35mm print of The Great Gatsby (1949), starring Alan Ladd, which has been buried for decades. Noir maestro Eddie Muller has persuaded Universal Pictures to strike a preservation print for NOIR CITY. -
Film Noir and the Classic Hollywood Narrative
Posted on December 17, 2011 | 2 CommentsAmerican films noir from the classic cycle have essentially the same narrative structure as other Hollywood movies, and that the entertainment value of a movie lies in the delicate balancing of pleasure and anxiety. -
The Window (1949): The City as a Prison
Posted on December 11, 2011 | 8 CommentsFilmed on the streets of New York and in deep focus, The Window challenges Jule’s Dassin’s The Naked City (1948) as the first documentary noir... -
Wall St: Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
Posted on December 6, 2011 | No CommentsWarren William a ruthless retailing executive running a dept store in the depth of the Great Depression in this clip from the 1933 pre-coder Employee's Entrance sticks it to an even bigger bastard - his banker... -
Noir Digest: Conflict and a Rogue Cop
Posted on December 4, 2011 | 2 CommentsThe two films noir covered in this edition of the digest are less than gripping. But they do raise interesting issues... Conflict (1945) and Rogue Cop (1954)
