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Recent Posts
- Great New Noir Music Video from Louie Ludwig – “The world is a grinding wheel”
- Born to Kill (1947): “a violent, ironic and macabre paroxysm”
- Cinematic Cities: New York (1937) – Some Things Never Change
- Film Noir and Living in the Past: “If a man’s life can be lived so long and come out this way”
- Pickup (1951): Trash Noir
- Existential Terror: The Essence of Film Noir?
- Film Noir Influences: The Replicant is D.O.A
- All I want for Christmas
- Noir City X: San Francisco Jan 20-29
- Film Noir and the Classic Hollywood Narrative
- The Window (1949): The City as a Prison
- Wall St: Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
- Noir Digest: Conflict and a Rogue Cop
- Femme Noir: “In her own mad mind she’s in love with you”
- Film Noir Origins: Angels Over Broadway (1940)
- Film Noir Origins: Métropolitain (France 1939)
- Film Noir Origins: Private Detective 62 (1933)
- Film Noir Origins: Paid (1930)
- New Books on Noir: From Screwball to Dragnet
- Cinematic Cities: Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
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Great New Noir Music Video from Louie Ludwig – “The world is a grinding wheel”
Posted on February 3, 2012 | No CommentsLouie Ludwig has given me the... -
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... -
Existential Terror: The Essence of Film Noir?
Posted on January 2, 2012 | 1 CommentFilm critic Jonathon Rosenbaum in this quote is speaking of cinema generally and referring to a particular a movie that is not a film noir, but to me Rosenbaum refines the essence of noir... -
Film Noir Influences: The Replicant is D.O.A
Posted on January 1, 2012 | 3 CommentsThe iconic Bradbury Building in Los Angeles is the scene of the climax inRudolph Maté's 1950 noir D.O.A and Ridley Scott's cult sci-fi thriller Blade Runner (1983)... -
All I want for Christmas
Posted on December 23, 2011 | 1 Commenta noir car -
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 | 4 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...
