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Recent Posts
- Imperfect: Impressive New Indie Neo-Noir
- Cinematic Cities: Taxi to Nowhere
- So Dark the Night (1946): The Split Personality
- Film Noir Influences: The Raveonettes – Attack Of The Ghost Riders
- Film Noir Summary Reviews: Night Moves – From Paris to LA via Iverstown
- Deception (1946): Expressionist Noir Melodrama
- New Book – Film Noir: The Directors
- The House on 92nd Street (1945): Real Drama with a Solemn Purpose
- The Night Shift: Scene of the Crime
- At the Crossroads: Blind Alley (1939) and 13 East Street (UK 1952)
- Trouble Is My Business: Help Fund a Film Noir
- Film Noir Influences: Black Amour
- Mystery Streets: My Own Private Noir
- The Dark Clowns
- Film Noir Influences: Force Of Evil’s Black Empire
- The Noir Art of John Alton: The People Against O’Hara (1951)
- Future Noir: 21st Century Dubai
- Cinematic Cities: Shanghai (1934)
- New Noir Video: “Tony Mars A Case of Murphy’s Law”
- The New Killers
Articles Archive
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Future Noir: 21st Century Dubai
Posted on February 24, 2012 | 1 CommentOriginal photo by Catalin Marin cropped and... -
Cinematic Cities: Shanghai (1934)
Posted on February 23, 2012 | 1 CommentThe legendary actress Ruan Ling-Yu in the late Chinese silent The Goddess (1934)... -
New Noir Video: “Tony Mars A Case of Murphy’s Law”
Posted on February 18, 2012 | 2 CommentsThe cool original noir short uses a lot of oroginal footage shot by him in Hudson, NY, the location for the bank heist in the classic noir Odds Against Tomorrow... -
The New Killers
Posted on February 14, 2012 | 1 CommentThe new killers... Take you down... Rat-a-tat-tat... -
Shooting the Past (BBC TV – 1999): Inside the Frame
Posted on February 13, 2012 | 1 CommentDoes an image contain a story? Or is it an instant in chaos that has no more substances than the crystals fixed on fading paper or in the pixels that exist only as long as an electric current flows? -
Great New Noir Music Video from Louie Ludwig – “The world is a grinding wheel”
Posted on February 3, 2012 | 1 CommentThis world is a grinding wheel... Cuts deep in the hardest steel... Cuts fine, make you razor sharp... In time, it’s gonna leave a mark... -
Born to Kill (1947): “a violent, ironic and macabre paroxysm”
Posted on January 26, 2012 | 3 CommentsThe weird story of a deranged con-artist and killer who marries into a wealthy San Francisco family, while told in the third person, reveals the thoughts and motivations of the central character, an attractive 30-something divorcee... -
Cinematic Cities: New York (1937) – Some Things Never Change
Posted on January 25, 2012 | 1 CommentTHIS IS NEW YORK Skyscraper Champion of the World where the Slickers and Know-It-Alls peddle gold bricks to each other and where Truth, crushed to earth, rises again more phony than a glass eye... -
Film Noir and Living in the Past: “If a man’s life can be lived so long and come out this way”
Posted on January 11, 2012 | 1 CommentWhile reviewing the positive reviews and box office listing at Movie Review Intelligence... -
Pickup (1951): Trash Noir
Posted on January 7, 2012 | 1 CommentPity the poor film noir blogger who has to sit through some pretty lousey movies for completeness sake. Hugo Haas' Pickup is such a film...
