http://filmsnoir.net Films Noir: all about film noir Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:26:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A sharp-shooting psychopath who hates woman goes on a killing spree in San Francisco and is pursued by the police. Director Edward Dmytryk started work on The Sniper just after he finished serving a 12 month jail sentence for refusing to co-operate with the infamous HUAC. Upon his release Dmytryk recanted and squealed to the HUAC naming [...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/filmsnoir/HiCj/~3/459463207/the-sniper-1952-off-target.html http://filmsnoir.net/film_noir/the-sniper-1952-off-target.html Samuel Fuller amazingly does not receive significant attention from most film writers, even though the substance of the passing tangential references to his oeuvre that are made, belie the lack of interest. Andrew Spicer says of Fuller in his book, Film Noir, when reviewing the course of noir post-Touch of Evil (and [...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/filmsnoir/HiCj/~3/454560562/underworld-usa-1961-we-got-a-right-to-climb-out-of-the-sewer-and-live-like-other-people.html http://filmsnoir.net/film_noir/underworld-usa-1961-we-got-a-right-to-climb-out-of-the-sewer-and-live-like-other-people.html Louis Malle’s Elevator to the Gallows while visually interesting is an ugly tale. Great title though. The scenario is deftly established in the first few scenes. Two middle-class lovers, Florence and Julien, on the verge of middle-age, whisper sweet nothings over the phone in the late afternoon and when she hangs up, he commences to put [...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/filmsnoir/HiCj/~3/453741751/elevator-to-the-gallows-ascenseur-pour-lechafaud-france-1958.html http://filmsnoir.net/film_noir/elevator-to-the-gallows-ascenseur-pour-lechafaud-france-1958.html The Centennial DVD Edition of Billy Wilders Sunset Boulevard (1950) has been released today, and is packed with many extras. The transfrer is reported to have been  tweaked from the 2002 release.  Jeremy Thomas of 411manic.com has posted a detailed review including a full listing of the extras provided on the DVD. No Tags http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/filmsnoir/HiCj/~3/450125146/sunset-boulevard-centennial-collection-dvd-released.html http://filmsnoir.net/film_noir/sunset-boulevard-centennial-collection-dvd-released.html I have discovered a cool DVD catalog site which has many hard-to-find noirs at very reasonable prices Yammering Magpies Cinema Film Noir Catalog. No Tags http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/filmsnoir/HiCj/~3/449241396/hard-to-find-dvds-from-yammering-magpie-cinema.html http://filmsnoir.net/film_noir/hard-to-find-dvds-from-yammering-magpie-cinema.html These films noir can be viewed legally for a limited time (in US only) at hulu.com: A Blueprint For Murder (1953) Boomerang! (1947) The Night of The Hunter (1955) The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three (1974) No Tags http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/filmsnoir/HiCj/~3/448927887/noirs-on-hulucom.html http://filmsnoir.net/film_noir/noirs-on-hulucom.html The B List: The low-budget beauties, genre-bending mavericks, and cult classics we love (Da Capo Press. $15.95. 288 pages), edited by David Sterritt and John Anderson, has been released as a paperback. The book is organised by genre - film noir, road movies, horror movies etc. Contributors include the Village Voice’s J. Hoberman, Newsweek magazine’s [...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/filmsnoir/HiCj/~3/448335952/the-b-list-in-paperback.html http://filmsnoir.net/film_noir/the-b-list-in-paperback.html Tomorrow evening the University of Maryland will host a debate headlined The Un-Americaness of Film Noir. The background provided by the University is certainly interesting: “Jonathan Auerbach’s book in progress Dark Borders offers a political reading of American film noir as a Cold War genre centrally concerned with redefining citizenship. It begins with questions of affect [...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/filmsnoir/HiCj/~3/448315174/wierd-science.html http://filmsnoir.net/film_noir/wierd-science.html I have been tagged by Dark City Dame for the latest meme doing the rounds and started at Blog Cabins. You basically compile a list of 26 favorites films from A to Z, and then tag another 5 film bloggers. My random list which is not limited to noirs follows, and my tags are named below [...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/filmsnoir/HiCj/~3/447378520/meme-a-z-list.html http://filmsnoir.net/film_noir/meme-a-z-list.html “The old master, now a slave to television, has turned out another Hitchcock-and-bull story in which the mystery is not so much who done it as who cares.” - Time (16 June 1958) “Brilliant but despicably cynical view of human obsession… The bleakness is perhaps a little hard to swallow, but there’s no denying that this is [...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/filmsnoir/HiCj/~3/446154288/vertigo-1958-red-for-noir.html http://filmsnoir.net/film_noir/vertigo-1958-red-for-noir.html http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=filmsnoir/HiCj