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Cinematic Cities: New York 1956 23 Aug 2013 | 12:25 pm
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956): Direction – Robert Wise | Cinematography – Joseph Ruttenberg
Cinematic Cities: Harlem 1964 22 Aug 2013 | 06:04 am
The Pawnbroker (1964): Direction – Sidney Lumet | Cinematography - Boris Kaufman
The Pawnbroker (1964) 18 Aug 2013 | 07:13 am
Some films challenge you. Engage you. At the end the screen goes blank and you have to pull yourself back to who and where you are. You question all the facile assumptions you use to order your life ...
Guest In The House (1944): Sex in the strangest places 16 Aug 2013 | 12:51 pm
Directed by John Brahm, Guest In The House, is about a psychopath who sets out to destroy a marriage. A lesser film noir, but Anne Baxter is suitably creepy as a nut-job with a pathological and event...
Requiem For A Heavyweight (1962): A love greater than greatness 13 Aug 2013 | 04:45 pm
Most of us reach a point in our lives when we come to the realisation that we are also rans. Life has not delivered fame nor glory. If we are a lucky we can settle into a relatively safe obscurity wit...
Hell’s Half Acre (1954): Noir Hawaiian-Style 9 Aug 2013 | 11:55 am
The exotic twang of Hawaiian guitars over touristy scenes of Hawaii in the opening credits of Hell’s Half Acre evoke a monochrome vision of Blue Hawaii. You half expect Elvis to appear and soothe you...
Chrashout (1955) 7 Aug 2013 | 07:03 am
Prison break movies during the classic film noir cycle tended to pessimism and summary justice, futile battles with rough terrain and bloodhounds, gunshot wounds, and road-blocks, with few if any of t...
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The Mask of Dimitrios (1944): A journey of dark oriental intrigue 1 Aug 2013 | 01:26 pm
In the early thriller novels of Englishman, Eric Ambler, the typical Ambler hero is a timid everyman who becomes unwittingly embroiled in a nefarious and dangerous caper where he discovers guile and c...
New York: Scenes from The Window (1949) Then and Now 31 Jul 2013 | 12:32 pm
The Window (1949) was filmed on the streets of New York, and challenges Jule’s Dassin’s The Naked City (1948) as the first documentary-style noir. The Window was actually completed two months before T...
