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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’
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New Noir Video: “Tony Mars A Case of Murphy’s Law”
Posted on February 18, 2012 | 4 CommentsThe cool original noir short uses a lot of oroginal footage shot by him in Hudson, NY, the location for the bank heist in the classic noir Odds Against Tomorrow... -
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 | 4 CommentsThe iconic Bradbury Building in Los Angeles is the scene of the climax in Rudolph 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
