Hear is a good example of Noir being a style rather than a genre. The Pottersville sequence in It's A Wonderful Life. Nobody is calling It's A Wonderful Life a Noir but that whole Pottersville sequence sure is.
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- June 25th, 2023, 6:45 am
- Forum: Film Noir and Crime
- Topic: NOIR or NOT?
- Replies: 26
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- June 24th, 2023, 5:19 pm
- Forum: Film Noir and Crime
- Topic: NOIR or NOT?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 10578
Re: NOIR or NOT?
You sure did, lol.
- June 24th, 2023, 11:56 am
- Forum: Film Noir and Crime
- Topic: NOIR or NOT?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 10578
Re: NOIR or NOT?
Noir is a style not a genre so if a film has a dark story and filmed in a Noir Visually Stylistic manner can be a Noir of any genre. So besides the Crime Noir we have Night of the Hunter as a twisted Fantasy Noir, Repeat Performance, Cat People, and Alias Nick Beal, are all Fantasy Noir. Lost Weeken...
- June 11th, 2023, 6:53 am
- Forum: Noir Alley
- Topic: Noir Alley
- Replies: 1363
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Re: Noir Alley
Original coinage of "Film Noir" was by French political rightwing and religious publications. The right wing publications because many – but not all – of the film noirs were from the poetic realist movement that was closely associated with the leftist Popular Front. The religious publicati...
- June 4th, 2023, 7:12 am
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: Best New Finds
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1493
Re: Best New Finds
Road To Salina aka La Route de Salina (1970) Written & Directed by Georges Lautner ( The Professional (1981). The film is based on Maurice Cury's novel La Route de Salina. The excellent cinematography was by Maurice Fellous, Music by Christophe ( Kill Bill ), Clinic and Bernard G?rard. The film...
- June 4th, 2023, 6:42 am
- Forum: Foreign Films
- Topic: Your Favorite Foreign Film?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 35487
Re: Your Favorite Foreign Film?
Lina Wertmuller's Pasqualino Settebellezze aka Seven Beauties (1975)
- May 6th, 2023, 11:58 am
- Forum: Dramas
- Topic: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2304
Re: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
I liked it a lot. The Critics are full of it. Different strokes for different folks. The Noirsville (NSFW) review https://noirsville.blogspot.com/2020/08 ... 2-neo.html
- April 24th, 2023, 4:11 pm
- Forum: Film Noir and Crime
- Topic: Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2299
- April 13th, 2023, 5:31 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: Roy Scheider
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3759
Re: Roy Scheider
He's great as the Crime boss in the Neo Noir Romeo Is Bleeding
- April 8th, 2023, 5:05 pm
- Forum: Classic Film Literature
- Topic: What Movie Related Book Have You Read Lately?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 18181
Re: What Movie Related Book Have You Read Lately?
I have recently read Raymond Chandler's Short Stories "Killer in the Rain, "and "The Curtain" these two stories were "cannibalized" and used in his novel "The Big Sleep."
- April 8th, 2023, 4:55 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: Best New Finds
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1493
Re: Best New Finds
Deadline at Dawn (1946) with Susan Hayward and Paul Lukas. This was an excellent film noir where Susan Hayward helps a young sailor try to retrace his steps after he wakes up with a crapton of money in his pocket and then discovers that the woman he was with is now dead. The hitch is that the navy ...
- April 7th, 2023, 3:54 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
- Replies: 3836
- Views: 233066
Re: I Just Watched...
Road To Salina aka La Route de Salina (1970) Neo Noir Film Soleil - Written & Directed by Georges Lautner ( The Professional (1981), La maison assassinée ). https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitk-nnp_Um-JIokSqelPWsi7bCuipPioMVOUf3e4QyvOKP9h7FrdPdraa1TDZqFtJiDrbQtV1oiEZ9Z...
- April 7th, 2023, 3:37 pm
- Forum: Games and Trivia
- Topic: First Film that comes to mind...
- Replies: 3113
- Views: 202113
Re: First Film that comes to mind...
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- April 1st, 2023, 4:43 am
- Forum: Film Noir and Crime
- Topic: NOIR or NOT?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 10578
Re: NOIR or NOT?
jamesjazzguitar wrote: ↑January 13th, 2023, 6:30 pmCinemaInternational wrote: ↑January 13th, 2023, 6:15 pmjamesjazzguitar wrote: ↑January 12th, 2023, 6:42 pm
E.g. what other western are the two leading antagonist woman?
- March 31st, 2023, 12:38 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
- Replies: 3836
- Views: 233066
Re: I Just Watched...
The Brasher Doubloon (1947) Flawed Classic Noir "The other, other, other Classic Noir Marlowe" Directed by John Brahm who directed two period piece Noir The Locket, and The Lodger before this film. Brahm began directing some TV after 1951 and eventually transitioned over. He directed a do...