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New Books on Noir: From Screwball to Dragnet
Posted on September 2, 2011 | 2 CommentsTV Noir: The Twentieth Century by Ray Starman and Screwball Comedy and Film Noir: An Analysis of Their Imagery and Character Kinship by Thomas C. Renzi... -
Cinematic Cities: Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
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Cinematic Cities: Skyscraper Souls (1932)
Posted on August 23, 2011 | 2 CommentsA Cinematic City: Skyscraper Souls (MGM 1932) directed by Edgar Swlwynand art direction by Cedric Gibbons .................................................................................................................... ...... -
Directors on the Edge: Outliers in Hollywood – James Ursini’s new book
Posted on August 13, 2011 | 4 CommentsNoted film noir authority and writer James Ursini has just published a new book, Directors on the Edge: Outliers in Hollywood, analysing the work of five émigré b-noir directors... -
The Big Gamble (1931): The coolest car chase you have never seen!
Posted on August 8, 2011 | 4 CommentsThe real buzz is the climactic car chase filmed on real streets at night... a "remarkable chase between a train and two cars, using a real exterior at night, with light source placed on the lower side of the street and on a mobile platform accompanying camera during its tracking movements". -
![UK film writer Philip French in the Observer in 2009 related that Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) “was the favourite film of Jean-Pierre Melville, who saw it 120 times before directing his noir masterwork Le deuxième soufflé [1966]”. I can share this enthusiasm...](http://filmsnoir.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/oat7-115x115.jpg "Robert Wise’s Odds Against Tomorrow (1959): A Work of Art")
Robert Wise’s Odds Against Tomorrow (1959): A Work of Art
Posted on July 24, 2011 | 12 CommentsUK film writer Philip French in the Observer in 2009 related that Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) “was the favourite film of Jean-Pierre Melville, who saw it 120 times before directing his noir masterwork Le deuxième soufflé [1966]”. I can share this enthusiasm... -
Tarkovsky’s Ubiytsy (‘The Killers’ USSR – 1956): A wounded God bereft of hope
Posted on July 18, 2011 | 6 CommentsUbiytsy (‘The Killers’ USSR – 1956)... -
Dans l’ombre: In the shadow – Fantastic New Noir Short
Posted on July 13, 2011 | 1 CommentThe very talented Fabrice Mathieu from France has produced a great video homage to noir based on clips from over 50 movies as a prequel... -
Manhattan Metropolis: Manhatta (1921)
Posted on July 13, 2011 | No CommentsFrom Paul Strand's 10min documentary short film Manhatta (1921)... View Paul Strand's 10min documentary short film Manhatta (1921) here... -
For Real: Manhattan Tenement 1942
Posted on July 13, 2011 | No CommentsStore fronts below brick tenement (1942): Charles W. Cushman Photography Collection / Indiana University Archives
