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Recent Posts
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- New Book – Film Noir: The Directors
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- The Dark Clowns
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- The New Killers
Films Archive
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The Window (1949): The City as a Prison
Posted on December 11, 2011 | 5 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". -
![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...
