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Recent Posts
- Great New Noir Music Video from Louie Ludwig – “The world is a grinding wheel”
- Born to Kill (1947): “a violent, ironic and macabre paroxysm”
- Cinematic Cities: New York (1937) – Some Things Never Change
- Film Noir and Living in the Past: “If a man’s life can be lived so long and come out this way”
- Pickup (1951): Trash Noir
- Existential Terror: The Essence of Film Noir?
- Film Noir Influences: The Replicant is D.O.A
- All I want for Christmas
- Noir City X: San Francisco Jan 20-29
- Film Noir and the Classic Hollywood Narrative
- The Window (1949): The City as a Prison
- Wall St: Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
- Noir Digest: Conflict and a Rogue Cop
- Femme Noir: “In her own mad mind she’s in love with you”
- Film Noir Origins: Angels Over Broadway (1940)
- Film Noir Origins: Métropolitain (France 1939)
- Film Noir Origins: Private Detective 62 (1933)
- Film Noir Origins: Paid (1930)
- New Books on Noir: From Screwball to Dragnet
- Cinematic Cities: Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
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Cinematic Cities: Paramount Studios, Astoria, Queens, New York City 1931
Posted on July 2, 2011 | 1 CommentCity Streets (1931) Speakeasy delivery convoy…... -
“Film noir is like a Harley-Davidson”
Posted on June 29, 2011 | 2 Comments"film noir is like a Harley-Davidson: you know right away what it is... the object being only the synecdoche of a continent, a history and a civilization…” -
Salón México (Mexico 1949): Noir South of the Border
Posted on June 27, 2011 | 1 CommentA beguiling Latin melodrama, Salón México stars Marga López as a b-girl at the Salon Mexico cabaret in Mexico City where she “sells her services” ... -
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 -
Noir Nation: International journal of crime fiction
Posted on June 23, 2011 | 3 CommentsThe people behind the Noir Nation project have produced two excellent promotional videos which augur well for the quality of the publication... -
Garfield Noir The Breaking Point (1950) Out on DVD
Posted on June 22, 2011 | 1 CommentThe Warner Archive has released on DVD for the first time a film adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway novel, The Breaking Point (1950) -
Cinematic Cities: Mexico City Noir 1949
Posted on June 21, 2011 | 2 CommentsSalón México (1949) Nylons, high heels, and dark alleys... Director - Emilio Fernández | Cinematography - Gabriel Figueroa -
Get Angry: “I was fed up I guess”
Posted on June 18, 2011 | 2 CommentsMost film noir protagonists are driven by anger. Anger grown of frustration and resentment at a society that excludes them from comfort and a decent life... -
Film Noir: Cinema as Mourning
Posted on June 16, 2011 | No CommentsOffice memorandum, Walter Neff to Barton Keyes, Claims Manager. Los Angeles, July 16th, 1938. Dear Keyes: I suppose you'll call this a confession when you hear it. I don't like the word confession... -
He Ran All the Way (1951): “To be left alone”
Posted on June 13, 2011 | 3 CommentsHe Ran All the Way, John Garfield’s last picture, was made under the oppressive shadow of HUAC. Soon after its release Garfield was dead from heart failure.
