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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. -
David Olney Presents: Film Noir
Posted on June 11, 2011 | No CommentsA cool new album inspired by film noir from musician David Olney featuring the very atmospheric 'Blue Monn Motel' -
Métropolitain (France 1939): Red Hot Poster
Posted on June 6, 2011 | No CommentsA hot poster from France for an early and earthy French noir starring the gorgeous Ginette LeClerc as a cabaret dancer... -
Noir Digest: Bad Girls Behind Locked Doors
Posted on May 29, 2011 | No CommentsThey stopped making noir movies over 60 years ago, but the books on film noir keep on coming... and capsule reviews of four classic noirs -
Best Film Noir Movies: The Runners-Up
Posted on April 13, 2011 | No CommentsThese are the runners-up to my listing of the best (5-star) films noirs. The combined list appears here as Essential Films Noir. The 'almosts' are 147 noir movies I rate as 4 or 4.5 stars... -
All Time Greatest Films Noir By FilmsNoir.Net
Posted on March 28, 2011 | 8 CommentsThe greatest films noir of all time. Ambitious and perhaps presumptuous. But without apology or regrets. A list of 65 movies which I rate 5-stars... -
Criterion To Release Remastered Film Noir Classics: Kiss Me Deadly and Le cercle rouge
Posted on March 17, 2011 | 1 CommentCriterion has announced the coming release of remastered prints of two major films noir on DVD and Blu-Ray -
Dark Borders: Film Noir and American Citizenship
Posted on March 15, 2011 | 3 CommentsJonathan Auerbach, Professor of English at the University of Maryland and regular presenter at film noir screenings, has just published his much anticipated book on film noir, Dark Borders... -
Noir Poetica: The Art of the B-Movie
Posted on February 27, 2011 | 1 CommentHollywood b-movies are a treasure trove of haunting images as arresting and poetic as any in cinema. Check out the slideshow of magic scenes from classic b-noirs... -
High and Low (aka Tengoku to jigoku – Japan 1963): Kurosawa’s Heaven and Hell
Posted on January 5, 2011 | 10 CommentsHigh and Low, based on American Ed McBain’s 1959 pulp thriller King’s Ransom is a noir in four acts
