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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’
Noir Festivals Archive
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Pickup (1951): Trash Noir
Posted on January 7, 2012 | 3 CommentsPity the poor film noir blogger who has to sit through some pretty lousey movies for completeness sake. Hugo Haas' Pickup is such a film... -
Noir City X: San Francisco Jan 20-29
Posted on December 21, 2011 | 1 CommentNOIR CITY celebrates its 10th anniversary with a 10-day San Francisco program at the Castro Theatre starting January 29, 2012 celebrating Frisco noir, including a brand new 35mm print of The Great Gatsby (1949), starring Alan Ladd, which has been buried for decades. Noir maestro Eddie Muller has persuaded Universal Pictures to strike a preservation print for NOIR CITY. -
Noir Digest: Noir City 2010
Posted on November 19, 2009 | 3 CommentsNoir City 2010 San Francisco’s NOIR... -
NOIR CITY DC: The 2009 Film Noir Festival
Posted on October 17, 2009 | 4 CommentsThe Film Noir Fndation is presenting... -
Film Noir Digest: Dassin Retrospective
Posted on March 4, 2009 | 5 CommentsJules Dassin: 1911-2008 Rififi (1955) The... -
The Femme Fatale: Gun Crazy in the UK
Posted on February 19, 2009 | 2 CommentsThe British Film Institute will screen... -
Film Noir Digest: News from Noir City 7
Posted on February 4, 2009 | 5 CommentsNoir City 7: Best Essay San... -
Film Noir Digest: Wicked As They Come
Posted on January 20, 2009 | 3 CommentsNoir City 7: Wicked as They... -
Noir City 7: Full Program
Posted on January 9, 2009 | 3 CommentsThe full program for NOIR CITY... -
One-Two Punch: Pulp Writers on Film Series
Posted on January 6, 2009 | 1 CommentPhantom Lady (1944) Thanks to Dark...












