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The Oscars, Jean Renoir, Raymond Chandler, Auteurism, and Budd Boetticher’s The Killer is Loose (1956)

March 3, 2014 by Tony D’Ambra 2 Comments

In a 1954­ interview Jean Renoir said of Hollywood: “Don’t go thinking that I despise “B” pictures; in general I like them better than big, pretentious psychological films they’re much more fun. When I happen to go to the movies in America, I go see ‘B’ pictures. First of all, they are an expression of … [Read more…]

Posted in: Articles, Directors, Films, Lobby Tagged: b-movie, fim noir

Robert Wise’s Odds Against Tomorrow (1959): A Work of Art

July 24, 2011 by Tony D’Ambra 28 Comments

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…

Posted in: Directors, Films, Lobby Tagged: film noir, new york, noir city, odds against tomorrow, robert wise

Tarkovsky’s Ubiytsy (‘The Killers’ USSR – 1956): A wounded God bereft of hope

July 18, 2011 by Tony D’Ambra 6 Comments

Ubiytsy (‘The Killers’  USSR – 1956) Directed by: Marika Beiku (Instructor) Aleksandr Gordon Andrey Tarkovsky Writers: Ernest Hemingway – short story Aleksandr Gordon and Andrey Tarkovsky – screenplay Cinematography by Aleksandr Rybin and Alfredo Álvarez Cast: Yuli Fait -Nick Adams Aleksandr Gordon – George Valentin Vinogradov – Hitman Al Vadim Novikov – Hitman Max Yuri … [Read more…]

Posted in: Directors, Films, Lobby Tagged: film noir

Books Digest: Crossfire, Jewish Directors, and Streets With No Names – Part 1 Jewish Noir Directors

October 19, 2010 by Tony D’Ambra 2 Comments

This is the first in a series of posts in which I will cover books on film noir that I have been reading, and which aficionados of film noir will find interesting. For this first post, I have chosen DRIVEN TO DARKNESS: Jewish Émigré Directors and the Rise of Film Noir (Rutgers University Press, 2009 … [Read more…]

Posted in: Articles, Directors, Lobby Tagged: film noir

La Nuit du Carrefour (1932 – France): Moody and surreal!

July 28, 2010 by Tony D’Ambra 4 Comments

In this early Jean Renoir film with a magically delicious femme-noir and a brilliant car chase at night, were sewn the seeds of French poetic realism that flourished later in the 30s in the films of Marcel Carné and others. La Nuit du Carrefour is a largely faithful adaption of Georges Simenon’s gloomy pulp policier … [Read more…]

Posted in: Actors, Articles, Directors, Films Tagged: film noir

The Cinematic City: “the meaning is in the shadows”

July 12, 2010 by Tony D’Ambra 2 Comments

When Strangers Marry (aka Betrayed 1944) King Bros/Monogram 67 mins Director: William Castle Cinematography: Ira Morgan Score: Dimitri Tiomkin “as When Strangers Marry illustrates, it is precisely through the triggering of sensations that film noir speaks most eloquently. A mode of signification that privileges connotation over the denotative, cause-and-effect logic of linear narrative, the highly-wrought … [Read more…]

Posted in: Articles, Directors, Films, Lobby, Noir Cities Tagged: film noir

The Origins of Noir: The Case for the Policier

July 3, 2010 by Tony D’Ambra 5 Comments

“Renoir’s second talkie, La Nuit du carrefour (1932)— my all-time favorite French noir, and the sexiest movie he ever made…  his edgy adaptation of Georges Simenon’s Maigret at the Crossroads, filmed in a foggy suburb that vibrates with off-screen sounds and a mysterious Danish heroine (Winna Winifried), cries out for discovery.” – Jonathon Rosenbaum In 1931 Georges … [Read more…]

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Cinematic Cities: New Jersey Shore

May 14, 2010 by Tony D’Ambra 3 Comments

The Big Night (1951) Director Joseph Losey | DP Hal Mohr Joseph Losey’s last American movie is a powerful and affecting drama of a boy crossing into manhood one dark noir night.

Posted in: Directors, Films, Lobby, Noir Cities Tagged: film noir

New York Noir: The Heart of Darkness

April 18, 2010 by Tony D’Ambra 2 Comments

Orson Wells in 1939 under contract to RKO developed a screenplay for a film adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s novella ‘Heart of Darkness’ (1899) , which sadly was never made. Film scholar James Naremore in an on-line article discusses the book and the development of  Welles’ script, which sets the  story in the present day and … [Read more…]

Posted in: Articles, Directors, Noir Cities, Scripts Tagged: film noir

Christ in Concrete: Not on Wall Street

April 4, 2010 by Tony D’Ambra 7 Comments

There is a certain irony in this excerpt from the novel by Italo-American Pietro Di Donato, Christ in Concrete (1939), a story of Italian immigrant building workers and their families in Brooklyn during the Depression. In 1949 a film adaptation of  the novel by director Edward Dmytryk, featured teeming tenements and residential streets shot with … [Read more…]

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2019 UCLA Festival of Preservation offers a weekend of cinematic rarities and surprises - Los Angeles Times | #FilmNoir https://t.co/FiTUypYR39

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As Noir as It Gets - LA Review of Books | "his shadow moving with him
below the streetlamps: dense, tight,
very black and sharp, foreshortened, but already starting to lengthen as he goes, attenuating to a weak stain" | The Long Take - by Robin Robertson https://t.co/pQN30kJXUL

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CALLERI: ‘Notorious,’ Hitchcock’s 1946 spy thriller, gets a home viewing restoration from Criterion | Night and Day | https://t.co/sKStwPxcUV #FilmNoir https://t.co/fTvkWVlLQq

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My Name Is Julia Ross and So Dark the Night (film review) - PopMatters #FilmNoir# https://t.co/Z1VWbmXGiB

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New transfers of Joseph H Lewis #FilmNoir My Name is Julia Ross & So Dark the Night coming from Arrow Video in February | Inside Pulse | Early Lewis B-Movies from the mid-40s have a strange vibe off-kilter vibe https://t.co/gHxP01zH6I

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