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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)
News Archive
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New Books on Noir: From Screwball to Dragnet
Posted on September 2, 2011 | 2 CommentsTV Noir: The Twentieth Century by Ray Starman and Screwball Comedy and Film Noir: An Analysis of Their Imagery and Character Kinship by Thomas C. Renzi... -
Directors on the Edge: Outliers in Hollywood – James Ursini’s new book
Posted on August 13, 2011 | 4 CommentsNoted film noir authority and writer James Ursini has just published a new book, Directors on the Edge: Outliers in Hollywood, analysing the work of five émigré b-noir directors... -
New British Gilda Poster For Digitally Restored Cinema Release
Posted on July 7, 2011 | 4 CommentsThe UK-based classic film distributer Park Circus to accompany its upcoming cinema release of a digitally restored print of the 1946 film noir classic, Gilda, have produced a new poster... -
Noir Nation: International journal of crime fiction
Posted on June 23, 2011 | 3 CommentsThe people behind the Noir Nation project have produced two excellent promotional videos which augur well for the quality of the publication... -
Garfield Noir The Breaking Point (1950) Out on DVD
Posted on June 22, 2011 | 1 CommentThe Warner Archive has released on DVD for the first time a film adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway novel, The Breaking Point (1950) -
David Olney Presents: Film Noir
Posted on June 11, 2011 | No CommentsA cool new album inspired by film noir from musician David Olney featuring the very atmospheric 'Blue Monn Motel' -
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 -
Criterion To Release Remastered Film Noir Classics: Kiss Me Deadly and Le cercle rouge
Posted on March 17, 2011 | 1 CommentCriterion has announced the coming release of remastered prints of two major films noir on DVD and Blu-Ray -
Dark Borders: Film Noir and American Citizenship
Posted on March 15, 2011 | 3 CommentsJonathan Auerbach, Professor of English at the University of Maryland and regular presenter at film noir screenings, has just published his much anticipated book on film noir, Dark Borders... -
Sidney Falco checks out: Vale Tony Curtis (1925-2010)
Posted on October 1, 2010 | 3 CommentsTony Curtis’ best role has to...
