― duff (duff), Friday, 16 June 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Friday, 16 June 2006 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Saturday, 17 June 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 17 June 2006 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 17 June 2006 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Saturday, 17 June 2006 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Anyone seen Cry Terror!... At Film Forum tonight, intriguing pairing of Mason and Steiger?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051501/
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 30 August 2007 14:41 (sixteen years ago) link
How come we discussed Red Harvest and Enrique didn't come along to mention that Goldoni play?
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 30 August 2007 14:45 (sixteen years ago) link
The Farmer's Daughter is in that movie, Morbs?
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 30 August 2007 17:47 (sixteen years ago) link
I haven't seen it, no. I don't think I ever really watched the other feature either.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 30 August 2007 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Has anyone got the recut of Touch Of Evil? Is it worth paying more for over the original?
― aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, Thursday, 30 August 2007 18:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Absolutely.
― C0L1N B..., Thursday, 30 August 2007 18:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Redd, I don't believe Loretta Young is in it.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 30 August 2007 18:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Touch of Evil is great if you can stand charlton heston.
it's tough to beat Out of the Past, although the faulkner-penned Big Sleep is classic, too (although the plot literally does not make any sense). I'm also a huge fan of Night and the City and Asphalt Jungle.
An interesting but unsuccessful noir is Dark Passage with Bogey and Bacall, which features a lot of 1st-person shots. Agnes Moorhead is great in it, however.
noirs i dislike: Force of Evil, The Postman Always Rings Twice (both John Garfield vehicles), Cat People (despite its alleged influence), Angel Heart (neo-noir).
― poortheatre, Thursday, 30 August 2007 18:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Curse of the Cat People is better than plain old Cat People.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 30 August 2007 19:03 (sixteen years ago) link
noirs i dislike: Force of Evil
!!!!
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 30 August 2007 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Yar, The Big Sleep film is tough to follow, but that's down to the production code.
― aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, Thursday, 30 August 2007 19:10 (sixteen years ago) link
The I Love Film noir thread is pretty good; here's the link if it's not already upthread: film noir
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 30 August 2007 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Morbius, have you seen that Danish movie that's at FF now?
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 30 August 2007 19:31 (sixteen years ago) link
no.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 30 August 2007 19:34 (sixteen years ago) link
boo Force of Evil. yay Touch of Evil.
another borderline noir is Kurosawa's High and Low, although a proper noir has to end more pessimistically.
― poortheatre, Friday, 31 August 2007 09:26 (sixteen years ago) link
No mention here of D.O.A., which I saw last night. Man walks into police station, claims he's been murdered, then in classic noir fashion the whole movie is in flashback. It's not quite up there with the best noirs (Double Indemnity, Laura, etc.), but it's pretty terrific and almost an A-Z of noir tropes - flashback structure, protagonist doomed from the start, femme fatale/wholesome girl binary, urban paranoia...
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 25 January 2008 12:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Double Indemnity and Touch of Evil are my shit. All-time.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 25 January 2008 13:41 (sixteen years ago) link
hells yeah, BIG HOOS.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 25 January 2008 13:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Time to rep for Preminger's Fallen Angel and Where the Sidewalk Ends.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 25 January 2008 14:03 (sixteen years ago) link
'the big heat' ftw
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 25 January 2008 14:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Naked City was better than I'd expected.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 25 January 2008 14:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Just saw Murder, My Sweet. Pretty great. I'm still trying to work out the plot.
― brownie, Friday, 25 January 2008 14:07 (sixteen years ago) link
So awesome that Netflix has its own section for this. Just watched "Woman in the Window", which was okay.
Now have "The Asphalt Jungle" running.
― kingfish, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 07:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Asphalt Jungle Le Doulos The Second Breath hell - basically just about all Melville that involves a raincoat or gun somewhere Double Indemnity T-Men let's see...
Too many to mention but it's my fave genre
― Capitaine Jay Vee, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 07:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Gotta be The Third Man.
― chap, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 10:42 (sixteen years ago) link
IIRC, Scarlet Street is basically the same movie as Woman in the Window but better. Maybe it's the other way around though. Another Lang/Lorre american noir with a similar plot.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 14:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Is Woman in the Window the one where he wakes up at the end and it's all been a dream? Cos that's a shitty shitty ending.
― chap, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 14:16 (sixteen years ago) link
yes, that's the one.
― lauren, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 14:22 (sixteen years ago) link
It's a shitty ending, but the rest of the movie is really good.
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 14:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Joan Bennett is excellent.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 14:24 (sixteen years ago) link
'Out of the Past' anyone?
― Michael White, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 14:27 (sixteen years ago) link
one of the best.
― lauren, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 14:28 (sixteen years ago) link
I think I quoted about half the dialogue of OOTP on the other thread.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 14:29 (sixteen years ago) link
in the french noir department: elevator to the gallows
― lauren, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 14:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Preminger made several goodies: Laura, Angel Face, Where The Sidewalk Ends, Fallen Angel.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 14:32 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost: Yup. With the grebt Miles soundtrack with the grebt Pierre Michelot on bass. Speaking of gallows, the original title of Out Of The Past was Built My Gallows High. Well, title of the novel it was adapted from.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 14:33 (sixteen years ago) link
If only for the soundtrack...
― Michael White, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 14:33 (sixteen years ago) link
re crap ending of Woman In The Window, Wikipedia says: "Director Fritz Lang substituted the film's dream ending in place of the originally scripted suicide ending, to conform with the moralistic Production Code of the time." So blame it on the Hays Code.
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 14:38 (sixteen years ago) link
third man, big sleep, point blank, chinatown, all the obvious stuff.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 14:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Not to derail totally, but speaking of 'Elevator to the Gallows' (and Maurice Ronet), has anybody ever seen 'Le Feu Follet'?
― Michael White, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 14:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm glad detour was rated by a couple people, but can't believe no one's mentioned gun crazy so far.
― Edward III, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 14:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Scarlet Street is basically the same movie as Woman in the Window but better. Maybe it's the other way around though. Another Lang/Lorre american noir
no, SS is better (and it's Eddie G, not Lorre).
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 14:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I picked up Le Feu Follet on video for a couple bucks awhile back, but haven't watched it yet. Criterion's doing a DVD in May
― C. Grisso/McCain, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 14:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Sweet! I haven't seen it in eons.
― Michael White, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link