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  • Movie Review: Out of the Past


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    Starring : Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Webb Director : Jacques Tourneur Writer(s) : Daniel Mainwaring, James M. Cain Studio : Warner Brothers Running Time : 97 minutes Rated : NR If the Maltese Falcon is to be considered the grandfather of the Film Noir genre, which many ...
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  • Weekend Film Recommendation: Kansas City Confidential


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    This week and next I will highlight two collaborations of actor John Payne, director Phil Karlson and producer Edward Small, who had an impressive run of modestly-budgeted, high quality films in the years after World War II, a period when many movies merged elements of film noir with the traditions of the gangster ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Zach on Film: The Maltese Falcon (1941)


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    This week, Zach learns what the terms Film Noir and McGuffin mean, as he gets dark and gritty in John Huston’s 1941 classic, The Maltese Falcon. The Maltese Falcon (1941) is a Warner Bros. film noir based on the novel … The post Zach on Film: The Maltese Falcon (1941) appeared first on Major Spoilers - ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Disbelief – A Short Film


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    Guess what?!?! I MADE A SHORT MOVIE, Y’ALL!!! Hello everyone!!! It’s your director of awesome films, Richard, here! So, a while ago on this website I posted an article talking about my first official short film, Specter Quest. That movie, which I made over the summer with friends, was this cheesy B-Movie ...
    2 weeks ago

  • The Noir File: Widmark is unforgettable as Tommy Udo


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    By Mike Wilmington and Film Noir Blonde The Noir File is FNB’s guide to classic film noir, neo-noir and pre-noir from the schedule of Turner Classic Movies ( TCM ), which broadcasts them uncut and uninterrupted. The times are Eastern Standard and (Pacific Standard). PICK OF THE WEEK Grinning gangster Tommy ...
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  • Doc taps the typewriter’s mighty impact, enduring appeal


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    As a retro-obsessed scribe, I often dream of steno pads, fountain pens and carbon copies. (Think “Mad Men” or Tippi Hedren ’s office job in “ Marnie .”) And of course I recall the marvelous clack, smack and ding of a vintage Smith Corona. I am not alone in my nostalgia. Turns out, the good old-fashioned ...
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  • The seared images of ‘Body Heat’


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    Ned: I need someone to take care of me, someone to rub my tired muscles, smooth out my sheets. Matty: Get married. Ned: I just need it for tonight. –from “Body Heat” starring William Hurt as Ned and Kathleen Turner as Matty From the sex to the crime to the moody saxophone music to Florida’s hot ...
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  • Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in Palm Springs kicks off with ‘Three Strangers,’ a cynical tale of a trio bonded by fate


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    “ Three Strangers ” (1946, Jean Negulesco ) will open the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in Palm Springs on Thursday, May 16. The fest, which runs through Sunday, May 19, will close with “ The Asphalt Jungle ” (1950, John Huston ); a total of 12 films is scheduled. The lineup is a mix of landmark and ...
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  • X Marks the Spot (1942)


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    A cop gets killed when he runs into some gangster Marty Clark heisting a warehouse. This is a film noir, gumshoe gangster movie of the cheapest variety and it kind of rambles a bit. It’s still a fair movie and a pretty good example of the film noir genre.
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  • Bad Education: Retrospective


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    Pedro Almodovar’s Bad Education  is a powerful, deeply personal film that has been slapped with an NC-17 from the censor-happy ratings board. Mind you, this does not denote that the film in question is pornographic. What this means is that the film is slightly more liberal in it’s depictions of sex and violence ...
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  • Act of Violence Revisited


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    Mary Astor’s career was a long one going back to the early 1920′s. Over the years her career continued to grow until an infamous marital scandal broke in 1936 while she was making William Wyler’s “Dodsworth.”  During the court battle her husband Dr. Franklyn Thorpe threatened to submit Astor’s spicy, ...
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  • Film noir flourishes at TCM film festival in Hollywood


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    Grauman’s Chinese Theatre was a prime location at the TCM fest. Photo by John Nowak From Marie Windsor ’s character in “The Killing” telling her wounded husband (played by Elisha Cook, Jr .) to cab to the hospital because she doesn’t feel like calling an ambulance to Grace Kelly fending off her ...
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  • The Noir File: Mitchum and Greer sizzle in ‘Out of the Past’


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    By Film Noir Blonde and Mike Wilmington The Noir File is FNB’s guide to pre-noir, classic noir and neo-noir from the schedule of Turner Classic Movies ( TCM ), which broadcasts them uncut and uninterrupted. The times are Eastern Standard and (Pacific Standard). PICK OF THE WEEK Jane Greer and Robert ...
    3 weeks ago

  • The Cahn Film Festival


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    As May approaches, the film world turns its eyes to the Cannes Film Festival, which will host world premiere screenings from the likes of Jia Zhangke and Alexander Payne at its Grand Théâtre Lumière. I, however, will be celebrating the Edward L. Cahn Film Festival, taking place on my mustard stained IKEA couch in ...
    3 weeks ago

  • ¿Quien es?


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      Watchmen by Marko Manev www.markomanev.com He gets from the bath dry. The tap drips and his head burns.             ‘Grace?’ he yells.             The bathtub screams as the pipes suck down the cold water. He tries to remember filling it. He tries to remember the sensation ...
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  • Burt Lancaster on the big screen: ‘The Killers’ and ‘Criss Cross’


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    UCLA ’s Billy Wilder Theater will present a terrific double bill on Saturday, May 4: two works from film-noir master Robert Siodmak , starring Burt Lancaster . Burt Lancaster made his screen debut in “The Killers,” co-starring Ava Gardner. In addition to being handsome and lithe, Lancaster projected ...
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  • Weekend Film Recommendation: The Chase


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    This week’s film recommendation is an obscure, strange, yet compelling 1946 film noir: The Chase . Made through low budget studio Monogram but released by United Artists, this off-beat movie is not for all tastes, but has developed a cult following among fans of the genre. Based on a Cornell Woolrich’s pulp ...
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  • Osborne shares highlights of this year’s TCM Film Festival


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    TCM host Robert Osborne speaks Wednesday at the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood. Photo by John Nowak “She’s so beautiful, you can’t believe she’s in her ’80s, and she’s so nice,” said TCM’s Robert Osborne about actress Ann Blyth , who co-starred with Joan Crawford in the classic domestic ...
    4 weeks ago

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