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Noir Beat: The Death of Film Noir

March 13, 2017 by Tony D’Ambra 8 Comments

The Death of Film Noir Film Noir aficionado and prolific blogger Ray “Cigar Joe” Ottulich from Noirsville has pointed me to a series of on-line essays bearing the title The Death of Film Noir by a certain William Ahearn, where he expounds a fairly pugnacious thesis on the true origins of film noir scholarship. Ahearn explores the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Articles, Films, Lobby Tagged: film noir, kirk douglas

THE STAND-IN New Film Noir Play Coming to Los Angeles

September 27, 2016 by Tony D’Ambra 2 Comments

  An intriguing new play will premiere in Los Angeles at the Bootleg Theater in mid October. THE STAND-IN looks behind the scenes during the filming of the film noir classic “Double Indemnity”. Billy Wilder, the picture’s director, and Kasia, an enigmatic younger woman, struggle for identity as foreigners while the movie is written, shot, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Lobby, News Tagged: film noir, the stand-in

The Run: New Noir Web Series

July 8, 2016 by Tony D’Ambra 2 Comments
The Run - Web Series

A team of young independent film-makers from the UK is seeking crowd funding for a new noir-themed web series titled The Run, which is being promoted as a story about power, ambition, trust, loyalty and betrayal set in a world of corporate intrigue. The pilot was a finalist at last year’s Raindance Web Festival in … [Read more…]

Posted in: Films, Lobby Tagged: film noir, neonoir, web series

Tokyo: Noir City

June 2, 2016 by Tony D’Ambra 8 Comments

I have just returned from Japan and would like to share some night shots I snapped in Tokyo.

Posted in: Articles, Lobby, Noir Cities Tagged: film nloir, japan. tokyo, noir city

Nippon Noir: Not everyone wants to be found

May 9, 2016 by Tony D’Ambra Leave a Comment
The Bad Sleep Well (Japan 1960)

The Bad Sleep Well (1960) Akira Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well (1960) is a caustic tale of corporate corruption and greed, where the surface hides the ugly truth.  The death of a fall guy thrown from a multi-story office block in central Tokyo precipitates a simmering revenge by the victim’s son. Using a stolen identity … [Read more…]

Posted in: Books, Films, Lobby Tagged: akira kurosawa, film noir, kobo abe

Amnesia and Missing Persons: “our lives dissolve into the evening”

April 11, 2016 by Tony D’Ambra 4 Comments

“A little girl is returning from the beach, at dusk, with her mother. She is crying for no reason at all, because she would have liked to continue playing. She moves off into the distance. She has already turned the corner of the street, and do not our lives dissolve into the evening as quickly … [Read more…]

Posted in: Articles, Books, Lobby Tagged: dashiell hammett, film noir, georges simenon, patrick modiano

Noir Amnesia

March 31, 2016 by Tony D’Ambra 10 Comments

Film noir evokes the dark side where the noir protagonist is usually trapped in a web of dire circumstance. A particular noir trope is amnesia. Hemmed in by internal barriers the noir amnesiac struggles to recover memory and meaning. The lost doppelganger, usually the dark flip-side of a new better self. In the redemptive noir … [Read more…]

Posted in: Articles, Femmes Noir, Films, Lobby Tagged: amnesia, film noir

The Noir City: Manhattan Transfer 1925

December 15, 2015 by Tony D’Ambra 2 Comments

“Dusk gently smooths crispangled streets. Dark presses tight the steaming asphalt city, crushes the fretwork of windows and lettered signs and chimneys and watertanks and ventilators and fireescapes and moldings and patterns and corrugations and eyes and hands and neckties into blue chunks, into black enormous blocks. Under the rolling heavier heavier pressure windows blurt … [Read more…]

Posted in: Lobby, Noir Cities, Noir Poetry & Fiction Tagged: film noir, john dos passos, manhattan, new york

Noirsville: New film noir blog

September 29, 2015 by Tony D’Ambra 4 Comments
Arouse (1966)

  Film noir aficionado Ray (“Cigar Joe”) Ottulich has launched a new blog where he will collect his film noir reviews from various forums, and post new reviews and noir-related snippets. The blog is appropriately titled Noirsville. Ray over the past few years has introduced me to a number of b-movies and little-known neo-noirs, and Noirsville is a very … [Read more…]

Posted in: Articles, Links, Lobby, News Tagged: film noir, neo-noir

List of Films Noir In US Library of Congress National Film Registry

September 23, 2015 by Tony D’Ambra 3 Comments
Cat People (1942)

A reader has asked which American films noir have been inducted into the US Library of Congress National Film Registry. I did a little digging and identified 26 Hollywood movies in the list that fall under the film noir umbrella.  There are 650 films in the list so the standard e&oe disclaimer applies.   Film Title … [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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