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Recent Posts
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- The Night Shift: Scene of the Crime
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- The Dark Clowns
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- Future Noir: 21st Century Dubai
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Latest Headlines
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New British Gilda Poster For Digitally Restored Cinema Release
Posted on July 7, 2011 | 4 CommentsThe UK-based classic film distributer Park Circus to accompany its upcoming cinema release of a digitally restored print of the 1946 film noir classic, Gilda, have produced a new poster... -
Film Noir: TIME Magazine Beat the French by 15 Years!
Posted on July 6, 2011 | 4 CommentsIt is not so much Mamoulian's inventive camera angles and breakthrough use of voice-over in a Hollywood talkie, or the consummate chiaroscuro lensing by DP Lee Garmes... -
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...
