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Noirvember 2015 concludes with a little murder among friends in Danny Boyle's 1994 feature debut Shallow Grave which stars Kerry Fox, Ewan McGregor, and Christopher Eccleston as three prats… Read More

Noirvember continues as we consider Louis Malle's debut feature film, Elevator to the Gallows AKA Ascenseur pour l'echafaud, which stars Jeanne Moreau as Florence and Maurice Ronet as Julien… Read More

Noirvember continues as we look at Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 sci-fi philosophical Noir starring Eddie Constantine and Anna Karina, Alphaville Read More

Special Guest: Mark Browning & John Hodge Guest Co-Host: Jeff Meyers Noirvember 2015 concludes with a little murder among friends in Danny Boyle's 1994 feature debut Shallow Grave whic… Read More

Special Guest: Nathan Southern & Jack Chambers Guest Co-Host: Jedidiah Ayres Noirvember continues as we consider Louis Malle's debut feature film, Elevator to the Gallows AKA Ascenseur… Read More

Special Guest: David Sterritt Guest Co-Host: Cullen Gallagher Noirvember continues as we look at crime and detective films with a foreign accent. We're looking at Jean-Luc Godard's 19… Read More

'The House on Telegraph Hill' is not a title that comes up often when people discuss film noir -- and it should. The post Noirvember Friday: The House on Telegraph Hill appeared first on Cut… Read More

It Always Rains on Sundays runs at a different pace than most thrillers of its era. The post Noirvember Friday: It Always Rains on Sunday appeared first on CutPrintFilm Read More

As the days get shorter and colder there's nothing I'd rather do than spend my time indoors. (By January I'm always desperate for indoor locations to shoot pictures for the blog.) One of the… Read More

Noirvember continues with Stanley Kubrick's 'The Killing' The post Noirvember Friday: The Killing appeared first on CutPrintFilm Read More

Special Guest: Francis M. Nevins Jr. Guest Co-Hosts: Maitland McDonagh, Cullen Gallagher Noirvember 2016 concludes with a look at Arthur D. Ripley's The Chase (1946). Adapted by Philip Yor… Read More

After a bit of a whirlwind September I'm taking things a bit slower this month and working on tackling a shorter reading list. After all, you can always add more to your reading list if you'… Read More

I’ve decided this year to invest myself more into the #Noirvember movement which was created by Marya E. Gates. For example, I’ll try to watch as many new noirs as possible… Read More

For today’s #Noirvember blog post, I thought it would be interesting to discuss a book instead of a film. Writings on the subject can be quite fascinating since there is a lot to talk… Read More

If you seek more grown-up fare at the multiplex, you'll be wishing for Serenity now. The steamy thriller has a terrific cast of dramatic talents, including Oscar winners Matthew McConaughey… Read More

We continue our #Noirvember coverage with a discussion of The Big Sleep. The first proper Philip Marlowe book by Raymond Chandler, it was the second appearance of Marlowe on screen, this ti… Read More

We wrap up #Noirvember and our Philip Marlowe journey for the year with Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973). Adapted by Leigh Brackett, one of the two main writers from Howard Hawks&rsqu… Read More

Hello dear readers! A few years ago, I wrote a text for university on the different representations of women in the film noir movement. I thought it would be fun to translate the text (becau… Read More

We continue Noirvember 2019 with a look at Max Ophul’s The Reckless Moment. Released in 1949, the film tells the story of Lucia Harper (Joan Bennett), a mother who’s out to prot… Read More

Hello, dear Film Noir addicts (or not)! We’re now half-way through #Noirvember and, so far, I have only published one blog post for the occasion that you can read here. The other day o… Read More

In my unceasing efforts to get people to understand Dorothy Hughes as one of the godmothers of noir, I gave a presentation at the NEPCA Conference this past weekend on her early novel T… Read More

Noirvember 2019 continues with a look at The Conversation (1974). Sandwiched between the first two Godfather films, The Conversation is writer/director Francis Ford Coppola’s paean to… Read More

Noirvember 2019 wraps up with Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity (1944). With a screenplay co-written by Wilder and Raymond Chandler and based on a story by James M. Cain, the film is one of t… Read More

I’m quite excited to post my first article for #Noirvember 2020! I’ve decided to kick things off with an essay that I originally wrote for a class on film noir I attended during… Read More

#Noirvember 2020 kicks off with a look at John Farrow's The Big Clock (1947). Based on the 1946 novel by Kenneth Fearing, it's the story of George Stroud (Ray Milland) an editor at Crimeways… Read More

We wrap up #Noirvember and our Philip Marlowe journey for the year with Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973). Adapted by Leigh Brackett, one of the two main writers from Howard Hawks&rsqu… Read More

One of my favourite things about #Noirvember is that it gives me the occasion to discover many new-to-me films during November. I indeed take to occasion to watch some noirs that I have neve… Read More

Originally posted on Punk Noir Magazine: Noirvember can be a little too much of a look-back-bore at times (at times!) so it’s good to remind ourselves that we’re living in someth… Read More

Noirvember 2020 continues with a look at Robert Montgomery’s Ride the Pink Horse. Adapted from the novel of the same name by Dorothy B. Hughes, the film also stars Montgomery as Lucky… Read More

We continue Noirvember 2020 with a look at Peter Yates’s The Friends of Eddie Coyle. Based on the novel by George V. Higgins, the film stars Robert Mitchum as the titular Coyle, an ov… Read More

Noirvember continues with a discussion of Edgar G Ulmer's Detour. Tom Neal stars as a down-on-his-luck musician who picks up the wrong hitchhiker (Ann Savage) in a tale of fickle fate, phone… Read More

Noirvember continues as we look at Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 sci-fi philosophical Noir starring Eddie Constantine and Anna Karina, Alphaville Read More

Noirvember returns with a quartet of unusual titles. We kick off the month with a double dose from Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai and Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samourai Read More

Noirvember 2021 kicks off with a look at Daryl Duke’s The Silent Partner. Released in 1978, it was from a screenplay by Curtis Hanson and based on the book Think of a Number by Anders… Read More

Noirvember 2021 continues with a look at John Boorman’s POINT BLANK.  Released in 1967, the film was based on the 1962 novel by Donald Westlake writing as Richard Stark.  The… Read More

Noirvember 2021 continues with a look at Orson Welles’s The Lady from Shanghai. It’s the story of Michael O’Hara (Orson Welles), a sailor who falls in with a weird gro… Read More

Noirvember 2021 continues with a look at Wendell B. Harris’s Chameleon Street. After winning the Sundance film festival in 1990 the film took too long to come out theatrically and… Read More

Coming up on the eating holidays, it’s SURREAL NOIR at NoBounds Radio. This episode gets me belatedly into Noirvember mode: a dive into Highsmith’s Cry of the Owl which my studen… Read More

November is a time for turkey and growing facial hair. It’s a time for gratitude. It’s a time for sitting in the shadows with a handful of film noirs. You know those shadowy, cyn… Read More

We conclude #Noirvember 2021 with a special episode about David Lynch’s Lost Highway. Written by Lynch and Barry Gifford, it’s the story of Fred Madison (Bill Pullman), a musicia… Read More

 All films are first watches unless marked with *.*BLOODY PIT OF HORROR (1967)Bodybuilding champion Mickey Hargitay stars as a deranged recluse who imagines himself to be the reincarnat… Read More

We continue #Noirvember 2022 with a look at Edmund Goulding’s Nightmare Alley. Released in 1947 the film stars Tyrone Power as Stanton Carlisle, a smooth operator at the carnival. He… Read More

We kickoff Noirvember 2022 with something a little different; an erotic thriller from 1989. Directed by Meiert Avis, co-written by Tommy Lee Wallace, shot by Paul Miller, and produced by Do… Read More

Tonight at 2100 UK/1600 NY it’s another episode of SURREAL NOIR! Drop over to the NoBounds Radio mix cloud page to listen live. This month you get a sneak peek at my MAPACA presentatio… Read More

BLEAK, BRUTAL AND BRILLIANT: CRIME FILM GREATS FOR ARROW’S NOIRVEMBER To celebrate ‘NOIRVEMBER’, this month the premier streaming service ARROW is showing a selection of br… Read More

Noirvember 2022 continues with a look at David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake. Released in 2018, the film stars Andrew Garfield as Sam, a slacker who’s about to be kick… Read More

I’m generally not the biggest fan of noirs, as I find them to be relatively copy-and-paste with their plots and characters. However, there are several that I really do enjoy and think… Read More

Noirvember 2022 continues with a look at Ivan Passer’s Cutter’s Way. Originally released as Cutter and Bone, the film is an adaptation of Newton Thornburg’s 1976 book and… Read More

We conclude #Noirvember 2022 with a look at Billy Wilder’s Sunset Blvd. Released in 1950, the film tells the story of Joe Gillis (William Holden), a screenwriter who meets a faded sta… Read More

Noirvember and Shocktober meet on this episode as we discuss Roman Polanski’s 1999 film The Ninth Gate. Based on the book The Club Dumas, the film tells the tale of Dean Corso (Johnn… Read More