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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)
Films Archive
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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... -
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... -
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... -
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) -
Film Noir Origins: Angels Over Broadway (1940)
Posted on October 16, 2011 | 1 CommentFilm Noir Origins: Angels Over Broadway (1940) Directors Ben Hecht & Lee Garmes | DP Lee Garmes | Art Director Lionel Banks... -
Film Noir Origins: Métropolitain (France 1939)
Posted on October 7, 2011 | No CommentsFilm Noir Origins: Métropolitain (France 1939) Director Maurice Cam | DP’s Nicolas Hayer, Pierre Méré, and Marcel Villet... ... -
Film Noir Origins: Private Detective 62 (1933)
Posted on September 30, 2011 | 1 CommentFilm Noir Origins: Private Detective 62 (Warner Bros. 1933) Director Michael Curtiz | DP Tony Gaudio | Art Director Jack Okey... -
Film Noir Origins: Paid (1930)
Posted on September 18, 2011 | 4 CommentsFilm Noir Origins: Paid (1930) - Director Sam Wood | DP Charles Rosher | Art Director Cedric Gibbons.... -
The Big Gamble (1931): The coolest car chase you have never seen!
Posted on August 8, 2011 | 4 CommentsThe real buzz is the climactic car chase filmed on real streets at night... a "remarkable chase between a train and two cars, using a real exterior at night, with light source placed on the lower side of the street and on a mobile platform accompanying camera during its tracking movements".
