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Recent Posts
- The Big Bluff (1955): The bitter flavour of festering reality
- The Story of Temple Drake (1933): The good bad-girl
- The PI as Anarchist
- “All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun”
- The French have a name for it: noir
- Film Noir FAQ: A great new book on Film Noir
- The Unreliable Narrator: Caligari, Rashomon, and the art of the B-Movie
- The Big Knife (1955): Bore me deadly
- Noir Poet – Kenneth Fearing: “appeals urged across kitchen tables and the fury that shouts them down”
- Jigsaw (1949): “like the last act of Hamlet”
- Highway 301 (1950): “a straight exercise in low sadism”
- Marlowe: “I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn’t care who knew it.”
- Jean Valjean in the Shadows
- New FilmsNoir.Net Trailer
- Cinematic Cities: New York – The Noir Years
- La Bionda (The Blonde – Italy 1992)
- Hudson, NY: Scenes from Odds Against Tomorrow Then and Now
- Wicked Women: “transforming sexist into sexy”
- Cigar Joe’s Latest Homage to Film Noir: Girl Trap
- New Film Noir Poster Book: “Where Danger Lives’
News Archive
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New Book – Film Noir: The Directors
Posted on April 4, 2012 | 2 CommentsAnother book on film noir directors.... -
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...
