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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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“All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun”
Posted on April 4, 2013 | 2 CommentsThe famous pensée of Jean-Luc Godard... -
New FilmsNoir.Net Trailer
Posted on January 3, 2013 | 6 CommentsCheck out the new FilmsNoir.Net Trailer... -
Hudson, NY: Scenes from Odds Against Tomorrow Then and Now
Posted on October 26, 2012 | 2 CommentsRobert Wise’s classic film noir Odds... -
The Thin Man (1934): James Wong Howe’s Noir Counterpoint
Posted on August 25, 2012 | 6 CommentsWhen director W.S. Van Dyke commissioned... -
Deception (1946): Expressionist Noir Melodrama
Posted on April 14, 2012 | 2 CommentsIn Irving Rapper’s 1946 dark melodrama... -
The House on 92nd Street (1945): Real Drama with a Solemn Purpose
Posted on March 31, 2012 | 1 CommentHenry Hathaway’s 1945 film The House on 92nd Street for 20th Century Fox was the first of the doco-noirs that presaged the gritty realism of Jules Dassin’s The Naked City in 1948... -
The Night Shift: Scene of the Crime
Posted on March 25, 2012 | 2 Comments©2012 Anthony D’Ambra. All rights reserved.... -
The Noir Art of John Alton: The People Against O’Hara (1951)
Posted on February 25, 2012 | 1 CommentJohn Alton’s cosmic framing for the... -
Future Noir: 21st Century Dubai
Posted on February 24, 2012 | 1 CommentOriginal photo by Catalin Marin cropped and... -
Shooting the Past (BBC TV – 1999): Inside the Frame
Posted on February 13, 2012 | 1 CommentDoes an image contain a story? Or is it an instant in chaos that has no more substances than the crystals fixed on fading paper or in the pixels that exist only as long as an electric current flows?
