A Film Canon Blog: Original Noir Reviews
I have come across a blog, A Film Canon, by a Mr Billy Stevenson, where you will find very original capsule reviews of many classic movies, including quite a number of films of interest to readers of FilmsNoir.Net:
- Carné: Le Jour Se Lève (Daybreak) (1939)
- Carné: Le Quai Des Brumes (Port Of Shadows) (1938)
- Curtiz: Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
- Curtiz: Casablanca (1942)
- Curtiz: Mildred Pierce (1945)
- Dassin: Night And The City (1950)
- Dassin: The Naked City (1948)
- Dassin: Thieves’ Highway (1949)
- Daves: Dark Passage (1947)
- Dmytryk: Crossfire (1947)
- Dmytryk: Murder, My Sweet (1944)
- Goulding: Nightmare Alley (1947)
- Hathaway: Kiss Of Death (1947)
- Hawks: Scarface: The Shame Of A Nation (1932)
- Hawks: The Big Sleep (1946)
- Hawks: To Have And Have Not (1944)
- Huston: Key Largo (1948)
- Huston: The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
- Huston: The Maltese Falcon (1941)
- Huston: The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (1948)
- Kurosawa: Nora Inu (Stray Dog) (1949)
- Kurosawa: Yoidore Tenshi (Drunken Angel) (1948)
- La Cava: My Man Godfrey (1936)
- Lang: Fury (1936)
- Lang: M (1931)
- Lang: Scarlet Street (1945)
- Lang: Secret Beyond The Door (1948)
- Lang: The Woman In The Window (1944)
- Lewis: Gun Crazy (1949)
- Mann: Raw Deal (1948)
- Marshall: The Blue Dahlia (1946)
- Negulesco: Johnny Belinda (1948)
- Preminger: Laura (1944)
- Preminger: Where The Sidewalk Ends (1950)
- Ray: In A Lonely Place (1950)
- Reed: Odd Man Out (1947)
- Reed: The Fallen Idol (1948)
- Reed: The Third Man (1949)
- Robson: Champion (1949)
- Robson: The Seventh Victim (1943)
- Rossen: Body And Soul (1947)
- Siodmak: Phantom Lady (1944)
- Siodmak: The Killers (1946)
- Siodmak: The Spiral Staircase (1945)
- Tourneur: Cat People (1942)
- Tourneur: I Walked With A Zombie (1943)
- Tourneur: Out Of The Past (1947)
- Ulmer: Detour (1945)
- Ulmer: The Black Cat (1934)
- Vidor: Gilda (1946)
- Vidor: Show People (1928)
- Vidor: Street Scene (1931)
- Vidor: The Big Parade (1925)
- Visconti: Ossessione (Obsession) (1943)
- Von Sternberg: Shanghai Express (1932)
- Von Sternberg: The Docks Of New York (1928)
- Walsh: High Sierra (1941)
- Walsh: Pursued (1947)
- Walsh: White Heat (1949)
- Welles: The Lady From Shanghai (1948)
- Welles: The Stranger (1946)
- Wellman: The Public Enemy (1931)
- Wiene: Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari) (1919)
- Wilder: Double Indemnity (1944)
- Wilder: Sunset Blvd. (1950)
- Wilder: The Lost Weekend (1945)
- Wise: The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)
- Wise: The Set-Up (1949)
This is a great blogsite, Tony. I am very imprssed with the quality of the writing and the scope of the choices.
Comment by Allan Fish — December 14, 2008 @ 5:10 pm
Not only do we have a fantastic overview of noir here, but we also have some insightful reviews of essential works in world cinema, most recently REPAST, a film I deeply revere, by Naruse, also one of my all-time favorites Bresson’s DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST and Ozu’s EARLY SUMMER, among others. I agree with Allan, that Stevenson’s writing is outstanding, and there’s always room for this kind of further enrichment. I will be sure to bookmark this.
Comment by Sam Juliano — December 14, 2008 @ 5:14 pm
Hi! Tony,
Yes, Allan Fish, Tony, blogsite is very, very nice! and very high tech too!…It’s really cool!
Personally, I like his Poster Gallery very much so!
dcd
Comment by darkcitydame — December 14, 2008 @ 7:26 pm
Hey – thanks for linking to my website. As a 25-year old postgrad student/slacker, it’s very strange to hear myself referred to as ‘Mr’! Btw my favourite noir directors are Jules Dassin, Henri-Georges Clouzot & Delmer Daves…
Comment by Billy Stevenson — December 15, 2008 @ 12:38 pm
You’re very welcome Billy. A Film Canon certainly deserves a wider audience.
Comment by Tony D'Ambra — December 15, 2008 @ 9:59 pm