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Recent Posts
- Imperfect: Impressive New Indie Neo-Noir
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- Film Noir Summary Reviews: Night Moves – From Paris to LA via Iverstown
- Deception (1946): Expressionist Noir Melodrama
- New Book – Film Noir: The Directors
- The House on 92nd Street (1945): Real Drama with a Solemn Purpose
- The Night Shift: Scene of the Crime
- At the Crossroads: Blind Alley (1939) and 13 East Street (UK 1952)
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- Film Noir Influences: Black Amour
- Mystery Streets: My Own Private Noir
- The Dark Clowns
- Film Noir Influences: Force Of Evil’s Black Empire
- The Noir Art of John Alton: The People Against O’Hara (1951)
- Future Noir: 21st Century Dubai
- Cinematic Cities: Shanghai (1934)
- New Noir Video: “Tony Mars A Case of Murphy’s Law”
- The New Killers
Films Archive
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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 -
Tension (1950): A house in the suburbs? “Are you kidding?”
Posted on December 14, 2010 | 1 CommentA reversal of sex roles so potent it has to rank as one of the best expositions in noir of the femme-noir as ball-breaker... -
The Green Cockatoo (UK 1937 65min): The Seeds of British Noir
Posted on December 2, 2010 | 3 CommentsGraham Greene, who wrote the source... -
Summary Noir Reviews: Between Wall Street and a High Wall
Posted on November 25, 2010 | 4 CommentsSide Street (1950) Young postal-worker with...
