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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.”
- Jean Valjean in the Shadows
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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”
- Cigar Joe’s Latest Homage to Film Noir: Girl Trap
- New Film Noir Poster Book: “Where Danger Lives’
Books Archive
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The PI as Anarchist
Posted on April 6, 2013 | 2 CommentsPI’s Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe... -
The French have a name for it: noir
Posted on March 29, 2013 | 1 CommentPI Philip Marlowe has the poet’s... -
Film Noir FAQ: A great new book on Film Noir
Posted on March 20, 2013 | 1 CommentFilm Noir FAQ: All That’s Left... -
Marlowe: “I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn’t care who knew it.”
Posted on February 18, 2013 | 1 Comment“It was about eleven o’clock in... -
Wicked Women: “transforming sexist into sexy”
Posted on October 21, 2012 | 1 CommentThe Justice & Police Museum in Sydney... -
New Film Noir Poster Book: “Where Danger Lives’
Posted on October 17, 2012 | 2 CommentsAlain Silver and James Ursini have... -
New Book – Film Noir: The Directors
Posted on April 4, 2012 | 2 CommentsAnother book on film noir directors.... -
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. -
New Books on Noir: From Screwball to Dragnet
Posted on September 2, 2011 | 2 CommentsTV Noir: The Twentieth Century by Ray Starman and Screwball Comedy and Film Noir: An Analysis of Their Imagery and Character Kinship by Thomas C. Renzi... -
Directors on the Edge: Outliers in Hollywood – James Ursini’s new book
Posted on August 13, 2011 | 4 CommentsNoted film noir authority and writer James Ursini has just published a new book, Directors on the Edge: Outliers in Hollywood, analysing the work of five émigré b-noir directors...
