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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)
Noir Cities Archive
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Cinematic Cities: New York (1937) – Some Things Never Change
Posted on January 25, 2012 | 1 CommentTHIS IS NEW YORK Skyscraper Champion of the World where the Slickers and Know-It-Alls peddle gold bricks to each other and where Truth, crushed to earth, rises again more phony than a glass eye... -
Existential Terror: The Essence of Film Noir?
Posted on January 2, 2012 | 1 CommentFilm critic Jonathon Rosenbaum in this quote is speaking of cinema generally and referring to a particular a movie that is not a film noir, but to me Rosenbaum refines the essence of noir... -
Film Noir Influences: The Replicant is D.O.A
Posted on January 1, 2012 | 3 CommentsThe iconic Bradbury Building in Los Angeles is the scene of the climax inRudolph Maté's 1950 noir D.O.A and Ridley Scott's cult sci-fi thriller Blade Runner (1983)... -
Cinematic Cities: Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Posted on August 28, 2011 | 2 Comments -
Cinematic Cities: Skyscraper Souls (1932)
Posted on August 23, 2011 | 2 CommentsA Cinematic City: Skyscraper Souls (MGM 1932) directed by Edgar Swlwynand art direction by Cedric Gibbons .................................................................................................................... ...... -
Manhattan Metropolis: Manhatta (1921)
Posted on July 13, 2011 | No CommentsFrom Paul Strand's 10min documentary short film Manhatta (1921)... View Paul Strand's 10min documentary short film Manhatta (1921) here... -
For Real: Manhattan Tenement 1942
Posted on July 13, 2011 | No CommentsStore fronts below brick tenement (1942): Charles W. Cushman Photography Collection / Indiana University Archives -
Cinematic Cities: Paramount Studios, Astoria, Queens, New York City 1931
Posted on July 2, 2011 | 1 CommentCity Streets (1931) Speakeasy delivery convoy…... -
Cities Have Lost Their Poetry
Posted on June 26, 2011 | 3 CommentsThirty years ago in my late 20s on many lonely cold winter nights I walked the desolate streets of the city fringe... down narrow sparsely-lit alleys -
Cinematic Cities: Mexico City Noir 1949
Posted on June 21, 2011 | 2 CommentsSalón México (1949) Nylons, high heels, and dark alleys... Director - Emilio Fernández | Cinematography - Gabriel Figueroa
