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Films Archive
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![UK film writer Philip French in the Observer in 2009 related that Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) “was the favourite film of Jean-Pierre Melville, who saw it 120 times before directing his noir masterwork Le deuxième soufflé [1966]”. I can share this enthusiasm...](http://filmsnoir.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/oat7-115x115.jpg "Robert Wise’s Odds Against Tomorrow (1959): A Work of Art")
Robert Wise’s Odds Against Tomorrow (1959): A Work of Art
Posted on July 24, 2011 | 12 CommentsUK film writer Philip French in the Observer in 2009 related that Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) “was the favourite film of Jean-Pierre Melville, who saw it 120 times before directing his noir masterwork Le deuxième soufflé [1966]”. I can share this enthusiasm... -
Tarkovsky’s Ubiytsy (‘The Killers’ USSR – 1956): A wounded God bereft of hope
Posted on July 18, 2011 | 6 CommentsUbiytsy (‘The Killers’ USSR – 1956)... -
Dans l’ombre: In the shadow – Fantastic New Noir Short
Posted on July 13, 2011 | 1 CommentThe very talented Fabrice Mathieu from France has produced a great video homage to noir based on clips from over 50 movies as a prequel... -
Film Noir: TIME Magazine Beat the French by 15 Years!
Posted on July 6, 2011 | 4 CommentsIt is not so much Mamoulian's inventive camera angles and breakthrough use of voice-over in a Hollywood talkie, or the consummate chiaroscuro lensing by DP Lee Garmes... -
Salón México (Mexico 1949): Noir South of the Border
Posted on June 27, 2011 | 1 CommentA beguiling Latin melodrama, Salón México stars Marga López as a b-girl at the Salon Mexico cabaret in Mexico City where she “sells her services” ... -
He Ran All the Way (1951): “To be left alone”
Posted on June 13, 2011 | 3 CommentsHe Ran All the Way, John Garfield’s last picture, was made under the oppressive shadow of HUAC. Soon after its release Garfield was dead from heart failure. -
Noir Digest: Bad Girls Behind Locked Doors
Posted on May 29, 2011 | No CommentsThey stopped making noir movies over 60 years ago, but the books on film noir keep on coming... and capsule reviews of four classic noirs -
Best Film Noir Movies: The Runners-Up
Posted on April 13, 2011 | No CommentsThese are the runners-up to my listing of the best (5-star) films noirs. The combined list appears here as Essential Films Noir. The 'almosts' are 147 noir movies I rate as 4 or 4.5 stars... -
All Time Greatest Films Noir By FilmsNoir.Net
Posted on March 28, 2011 | 8 CommentsThe greatest films noir of all time. Ambitious and perhaps presumptuous. But without apology or regrets. A list of 65 movies which I rate 5-stars... -
High and Low (aka Tengoku to jigoku – Japan 1963): Kurosawa’s Heaven and Hell
Posted on January 5, 2011 | 10 CommentsHigh and Low, based on American Ed McBain’s 1959 pulp thriller King’s Ransom is a noir in four acts
