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THE KILLING (Marie Windsor and Coleen Gray)
TENSION (Audrey Totter)
JOHNNY O'CLOCK (Evelyn Keyes)
FEATURING: Hangmen Also Die! (1943), None Shall Escape (1944), Brute Force (1947), Crossfire (1947), Intruder in the Dust (1949), Obsession (1949), Thieves’ Highway (1949), Gun Crazy (1950), The Lawless (1950), Try and Get Me! (1950), The Big Night (1951), He Ran All the Way (1951), Hell Drivers (1957), Time Without Pity (1957), Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
FEATURING: Out of the Fog (1941), The Lady from Shanghai (1947), Key Largo (1948), The Breaking Point (1950), The Long Goodbye (1973), The Deep (1977), The Fog (1980), Body Heat (1981), Copycat (1995), Wild Things (1998), The Beach (2000), Insomnia (2002), The Ghost Writer (2010), Shutter Island (2010)
Excellent, @Dwayne!
A nice overview of the life of actor John Garfield from the Cinema Cities YouTube page. It runs about 35 minutes, but there are time "chapters" so you can skip over parts that may not interest you.
Excellent, @Dwayne!
Caught the NOIR ALLEY airing this weekend. Excellent!
Did I watch OUT OF THE PAST to mark the occasion?
.... YEP!
Greer's Kathie Moffat is certainly a top-notch femme fatale.
One of my favorite classic era leading ladies.
I love the chapter on her in Eddie Muller's DARK CITY DAMES book.
Poor Jane Greer ... and her husband asks for a quickie Mexican divorce while she is recovering from surgery to correct a life-threatening illness. WOW.
I've been meaning to post something to the "last movie bought" thread about DARK CITY DAMES and I had even drafted a review (along with a related book) for that purpose. Unfortunately, I haven't finished it yet. Maybe this weekend?
Someone has kindly complied all of the films featured on Turner Classic Movies' "Noir Alley" over the years. With today's broadcast of 1954's "Black Tuesday" the total is now up to 300 individual titles.
https://letterboxd.com/tmroj/list/every-film-on-tcms-noir-alley/
I also came across this 2009 BBC documentary on Film Noir on YouTube. It is notable for the "longish" clips used. Enjoy.
Excellent, @Dwayne ! Great stuff.
It’s Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and Dorothy L, Sayers on the pages
It’s John Huston, Otto Preminger, Jules Dassin and Nicholas Ray on film.
The Miles Davis and Chet Baker blowing sad sounds, it’s Sinatra singing about the wee small hours.
It’s low-budget and minimalistic, getting by on what you can.
Salvation is a last-minute business.
If you can even find it hiding on the backstreets.
This isn’t Chinatown, Jake.
This is Noirvember.
- by artist Mark V. Krajnak
And, of course, Noirvember brings with it the daily online "challenges" - of which the first was to name your favorite noir opening.
Lots of great choices ("The Letter", "Sunset Blvd", "Double Indemnity", "The Killers", etc..), but I decided to go romantic and selected the opening of Nicholas Ray's 1949 film THEY LIVE BY NIGHT.
As I posted on social media, while the opening of THEY LIVE BY NIGHT may not have the "buzz" that some of the other noirs have, it does lay bare the innocence that will end in tragedy.
PS: If I can find a linkable version of list of the 30-day challenge I will post it. Tomorrow, the second challenge is to put forth what you think is the best character introduction.
PS #2: Nice Noir overview.
1. Favorite Film Noir Opening Scene
2. Favorite Film Noir Character Introduction
3. Name the film that made you a fan of Film Noir
4. Name the Film Noir that was ahead of its time
5. Name the Film Noir that you would show to someone that has never seen one
6. Name the coolest Film Noir character
7. Favorite Film Noir Dream Sequence
8. “Now You’re Talking”: Name your favorite line in a Film Noir
9. Name your favorite Dan Duryea Film Noir
10. Name your favorite Gloria Grahame Film Noir
11. Favorite Bar Scene or Cocktail in a Film Noir
12. Name the Sexiest Film Noir
13. Name your favorite Low Budget “B” Film Noir
14. Who’s on the Film Noir Mount Rushmore
15. Film Noir Character that You’d Trust the Least With your Secrets
16. Name a Lesser-Known Film Noir Everyone Should See
17. Name Your Favorite Film Noir Duo
18. Favorite Film Noir MacGuffin
19. Favorite Boxing Film Noir
20. Favorite Gambling Scene in a Film Noir
21. Name Your Favorite Film Noir Filmed Outside of the U.S.
22. Name Your Favorite Musical Performance in a Film Noir
23. Film Noir Actor that Stole Every Scene They Were In
24. Favorite Film Noir Poster
25. Name Your Favorite Film Noir that Features a Boat
26. Name Your Favorite Neo-Noir
27. Name Your Favorite Film Noir that Features Food
28. Name a Film Noir that you Could Watch Over and Over Again
29. Name Your Favorite RKO (studio) Film Noir
30. Best Film Noir Ending
The Endless Night: A Valentine to Film Noir
Set to the tune of Massive Attack’s “Angel,” Serena Bramble’s 2009 remix project “The Endless Night: A Valentine to Film Noir” is a “video love letter that distills film noir movies into their atmospheric essence.”
A complete list of the films used in the supercut can be found here:
https://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_endless_night_a_valentine_to_film_noir_an_epic_supercut_of_toxic_mascul/
1. Favorite Film Noir Opening Scene- The Bridgeport, CA opening of Out of the Past
2. Favorite Film Noir Character Introduction- Lana in Postman Always Rings Twice
3. Name the film that made you a fan of Film Noir- The Maltese Falcon
4. Name the Film Noir that was ahead of its time- Double Indemnity
5. Name the Film Noir that you would show to someone that has never seen one- Out of the Past
6. Name the coolest Film Noir character -Bogie as -Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon
7. Favorite Film Noir Dream Sequence -Bogie in Dark Passage during his plastic surgery
8. “Now You’re Talking”: Name your favorite line in a Film Noir- "Those are harsh words to throw at a man, especially when he's walking from your bedroom"- The Big Sleep
9. Name your favorite Dan Duryea Film Noir -Criss Cross
10. Name your favorite Gloria Grahame Film Noir -In A Lonely Place
11. Favorite Bar Scene or Cocktail in a Film Noir -The Blue Dahlia
12. Name the Sexiest Film Noir -Out of the Past and The Postman Always Rings Twice
13. Name your favorite Low Budget “B” Film Noir - Detour
14. Who’s on the Film Noir Mount Rushmore -Bogart, Mitchum, Ava Gardner, Gene Tierney, Alan Ladd.
15. Film Noir Character that You’d Trust the Least With your Secrets - Fisher in Out of the Past.
Number 11 was the hardest for me as there are so many great bar scenes in noir.
Excellent, @Dwayne !
1. Favorite Film Noir Opening Scene
THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (as posted above). There was a ton of support for the KILLERS (1946) and THE LETTER (1940) BTW.
2. Favorite Film Noir Character Introduction
Harry Lime in THE THIRD MAN. I still get chills. Note that GE seemed to have borrowed from this with the Alec Trevelyan reveal. :-?
3. Name the film that made you a fan of Film Noir
THE BREAKING POINT (1950) - discussed several times on this thread
4. Name the Film Noir that was ahead of its time
IN A LONELY PLACE (1950) - the theme of male/female relations, control and violence could be from a movie made today (just not as well ;) )
5. Name the Film Noir that you would show to someone that has never seen one
I go back and forth between OUT OF THE PAST and DOUBLE INDEMNITY and posted to that effect.
As part of the #Noirvember celebrations, in addition to the usual online stuff, a number of independent movie houses are screening various films and I plan to partake! For example, I will be attending a special screening of FORCE OF EVIL (1948) at the Almao Drafthouse here in New York City (Manhattan) next week. After the film there will be panel discussion headed by author Imogen Sara Smith. Should be interesting.
"A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said."
That sounds amazing. Let us know how that screening goes.
I was surprised how difficult those questions were for me. So many great noirs and scenes to chose from.
Secondly, while the Movies! Reel Variety Network usually has a block of Film Noirs on Thursday today’s lineup was a real doozy:
1. The Breaking Point (1950)
2. The Narrow Margin (1952)
3. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
4. Gilda (1946)
5. Laura (1944)
6. Gun Crazy (1950)
7. The Set-up (1949)
8. The Big Heat (1953)
9. Scandal Sheet (1952)
10. White Heat (1949)
Luckily, I’m home today!
And this lineup could only mean one thing …..
(for me)
Ah, Annie Laurie Starr (Peggy Cummins) :x
(for the person that started this thread)
“Somewhere at the top of those legs is Lana Turner!” :))
Someday I must get around to watching the 1981 remake with Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange. I’ve seen bits and pieces of it over the years and TCM has broadcast it before (and I do love Ms. Lange :x ), but I’ve always been busy.
I wonder how Jessica Lange would have fared as a "Bond Girl" opposite Roger Moore?
Haha! Thanks, @Dwayne! I like to credit my passion for Lana Turner as the spark that led me to my wife. It's funny how those things work out.
A few months ago I finally set up ROKU on my television, and have been finding quite a few noirs that way. Countless apps. It took me long enough to appreciate streaming, though I do need my physical media.