Weekend Weather and Watching

[Steve-O]

it's freezing in the North East. Watching The Pretender and a pretty good Brit one called Double Confession

[Hard-Boiled-Rick]

Reading James M. Cain's short story 'The Baby in the Icebox'

http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1233762592m/247151.jpg

[David]

Just finished 'Shock', and watched 'House By The River' earlier..

[Brian]

windy and warm here in Florida...Broken Embraces finally opened here Friday, going to the five o'clock show today.

[Raven]

Snow expected to hit tomorrow night and go thru the week. Great, just when I'll be driving out to Noir City!

Just watched Scene of the Crime. Nice entry from MGM starring Van Johnson.

[Steve-O]

Going to see Edge of Darkness tonight. I'm expecting a pretty good -but not great- police/revenge drama. I'll probably watch Angel Face again this weekend too.

It's like 20 degrees here in New England. ugh.

[David]

Tonight it's the double feature of OUR MAN FLINT and IN LIKE FLINT.

This w/e, I'll be checking out bootlegs of HARRY BROWN and BROKEN EMBRACES.. and a couple cool, 70s, Italian crime thrillers -
STREET LAW, and REVOLVER.

Have a great weekend everybody..!

[Hart]

Two films on deck: Visconti's 1943 film Ossesione (the first filmed adaptation of Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice) and Clouzot's Quai des Orfèvres, released in 1947. Perhaps I'll add Murder by Contract from the Sony Film Noir set if there's enough time.

[Harry Fabian]

Not much snow here yet, but supposedly getting 4-5 inches. Mostly slush now. Hoping to try out my new macro lens this weekend. Netflix is FINALLY sending us District 9, so will watch that and maybe Moontide off the DVR. That may be it if we travel to watch the Super Bowl. If we stay in town, will sneak another undetermined movie in.

[Steve-O]

The Superbowl in some snow (maybe 2 inches where I am).... I'll be watching Fear and The Anderson Tapes (Sean Connery and Christopher Walken!)

[Raven]

30's here with no snow, but about 5 feet on the ground. Just finished watching The Lineup for the third time in three weeks. Had to take another look at those SF location shots after the Noir Tour last week in Noir City.

[Hard-Boiled-Rick]

Taking a break from film noir this weekend…

Poetic Realism, and slice and dice Samurai Cinema are this weekend’s watch list:

La Bête Humaine (1938 - Jean Renoir)

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/2774/labtehumaine1938filmpos.jpg

Seven Samurai (1954 - Kurosawa)
Yojimbo (1961- Kurosawa)
Sanjuro (1962 - Kurosawa)

Master swordsman Kyuzo
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/6925/sevensamuraikyuzo.jpg

[David]

I've got 'Minority Report' in right now.. I'd forgotten how good it was - maybe my fave Spielberg of the last 20 years (and I just noticed
a shot wherein they're playing 'House Of Bamboo' in the backround(!))

Before the Bowl I'll be re-watching my next NOTW, and maybe taking another look at 'The Woman In The Window'..

[Steve-O]

I've got 'Minority Report' in right now.. I'd forgotten how good it was - maybe my fave Spielberg of the last 20 years (and I just noticed
a shot wherein they're playing 'House Of Bamboo' in the backround(!))

I have a big problem with the ending of Minority Report... 99 percent of it was great though. I feel the same way about Angel Heart... so perfect then the ending. Ugh. I do remember them playing House of Bamboo in it.. very cool.

Hard Boiled Rick: La Bête Humaine is very noir... Simone Simon is quite something in it too.

[David]

I have a big problem with the ending of Minority Report... 99 percent of it was great though. I feel the same way about Angel Heart... so perfect then the ending. Ugh. I do remember them playing House of Bamboo in it.. very cool.

Hard Boiled Rick: La Bête Humaine is very noir... Simone Simon is quite something in it too.

Hmm, I don't mind either ending - what don't you like exactly?

[Hard-Boiled-Rick]

I have a big problem with the ending of Minority Report... 99 percent of it was great though. I feel the same way about Angel Heart... so perfect then the ending. Ugh. I do remember them playing House of Bamboo in it.. very cool.

Hard Boiled Rick: La Bête Humaine is very noir... Simone Simon is quite something in it too.

Steve
Wow. La Bête Humaine is down and out pessimistic noir – poetic realism. Simone Simon is a sensational femme fatale in this flick. Striking train cinematography too.

[Steve-O]

Hmm, I don't mind either ending - what don't you like exactly?

I didn't like the neat ending... Cruise escapes an un-escapable location and then there's this tedious confrontation with Max Von Sydow that's just unreal. Really rubbed me the wrong way.

[Steve-O]

Steve
Wow. La Bête Humaine is down and out pessimistic noir – poetic realism. Simone Simon is a sensational femme fatale in this flick. Striking train cinematography too.

Never seen it before? Yeah. It's a GREAT movie.

[David]

Steve
Wow. La Bête Humaine is down and out pessimistic noir – poetic realism. Simone Simon is a sensational femme fatale in this flick. Striking train cinematography too.

Have you seen Renoir's 'La Chienne', Rick..?

[JCharles]

Today I watched my Fox Noir DVD copy of Panic In The Streets. Great location photography of N'Awlins, plenty of backstreet shadowy tenements, heavy-duty noirville. A great shoot-out in a coffee warehouse. Widmark is a good guy in this one but very intense nevertheless. Jack Palance is excellent as a smart thug as is Zero Mostel as his obsequious toady (Very similar to his role in The Enforcer). Palance has some great scenes with a midget newshawk, surprisingly compassionate. Emile Meyer (Sweet Smell of Success, The Mob, Shield For Murder) also shows up as a stubborn sea captain. The plot is similar to The Killer That Stalked New York, combining the criminal milieiu with the spread of a deadly disease. Elia Kazan directed.

[Martin]

I have The Dark Mirror spinning right now, Thomas Mitchell as watchable as ever but Olivia DeHavilland does the film stealing turn in this old Hollywood staple of split screen nice twin and evil twin. Siodmak handles the humour and tension with his usual degree of balance.

Have Clouzot's Le Corbeau to watch this weekend too, and a decent Preston Sturges box set dropped through the letter box earlier this week so that'll get a galnce at some point.

[Hard-Boiled-Rick]

Have you seen Renoir's 'La Chienne', Rick..?

David,

I have not seen Renoir’s La Chienne.

I saw La Bête Humaine for the first time over the weekend; the local library recently got a copy. I like its visual compositions and Simone Simon, but I am not a big fan of Poetic Realism. The protagonists give up too easily. At least in classic film noir, our favorite losers try to survive, even if they don’t.

Of the Jean Renoir’s I’ve seen, I like the satirical The Rules of the Game (La Règle du jeu- 1939). Its biting commentary on society is enduring and applicable today.

[Hart]

The weather is wonderful out here in California so maybe I should get outside for a few hours.....but if I don't: A re-watch of Kiss of Death, The Scar and maybe I'll finally get around to Ossessione by Visconte.

In regards to La Chienne, I once watched a vhs copy about two years ago and was pretty impressed, cosidering the year it was made; from memory, it seemed similar to the gritty pre-code Hollywood movies being filmed, but being French it was more saltier and unflinching. It's been awhile since viewing it and Lang's remake (Scarlet Street); perhaps a double bill re-showing is in strore for me soon.

[Fast Eddie]

Heads Up! The NOIR CITY website has been updated in the festival's aftermath ... photos, videos, and the Roscoe Awards for "Best of the Fest."

http://www.noircity.com/noircity.html

[David]

Netflix sent me 'The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse', and I'm kinda/sorta enjoying it right now.

Later, if time permits, I'll dig out 'Ride The Pink Horse' or 'The Two Mrs. Carrolls'..

[Ned]

Just dug through some serious Connecticut snow to realize the silent "The Racket" was on TCM. Olympic hockey tonight, so "The Racket" will sit by the TV for Friday or Saturday night.

Ned

[Hart]

Weather out here is smoggy, but sunny. For el fin de semana, should watch Clouzot's Le Corbeau, Fear's The Grifters and a re-watch of Hathaway's The Dark Corner.

[Steve-O]

warm in the NE... I'm getting through the Lost Noir Breakdown and the rest of the Bad Girl DVD set (probably the Glass Wall) but I'm really excited that they have Quincy streaming on Netflix. Maybe now I can figure out why he has a framed picture of a horse hanging in his house boat!

[JCharles]

Just finished watching the new DVD bio of David Goodis that is being promoted on the FNF site. Well worthwhile, many photos and interviews with people who knew him, plus the story of his marraige, which inspired many of his novels. His writing is examined and given a proper amount of depth with quotations from many passages. In the past, I've read a number of articles about Goodis but I learned alot from this DVD.

[Hart]

Re-watched Huston's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Maybe not a full-fledged noir, but John certainly incorporated many elements of it into the film.

[David]

Kinda mild and sunny here on Long Island right now.

Just finished watching a director's series dvd on William Friedkin (because I met the man last night after a N.Y.C. screening of his 5 time
Oscar-winning 'French Connection' - I can die now), and before that I watched the thoroughly forgettable 'Strange Impersonation'.

The 'Twin Peaks' complete series boxed set came in today's mail, and will be added to my 'to watch' pile along with George Romero's
'Knightriders', 'Everybody's Fine' w/ De Niro, and a few of my Friedkin favorites which I'll watch with an even bigger smile than usual.

[Raven]

Still a butt load of snow around the house (we're at 8000') but with temps in the low 50's today it was nice enough to get on a bike, which is just what we did.

Film wise, last night it was the "The Glass Wall" from the recently released Bad Girls of Film Noir, Vol 1. Tonight, just watched the neo-noir "A Simple Plan," which is Very "Fargo" like in setting with snow, snow and more snow. Up next an upgraded copy of "Flesh and Fantasy."

[Guy Savage]

Almost 70 here. Just started TEENAGE CRIME WAVE

[JCharles]

We're having a hell of a Nor' Easter here in Long Island, with wind and rain almost worthy of Key Largo. I watched a noir-scifi hybrid this afternoon, Dark City (definitely not the 1950 version), planning to re-watch The Scar tonight.

[David]

We're having a hell of a Nor' Easter here in Long Island, with wind and rain almost worthy of Key Largo. I watched a noir-scifi hybrid this afternoon, Dark City (definitely not the 1950 version), planning to re-watch The Scar tonight.

Hey, JC, I'm a Long Islander too..! Yeah, it was crazy here yesterday. I'm in bed w/ a bad cold so I didn't see anything, but the noise made by the storm was pretty unsettling.

I think I'll re-watch Kubrick's 'The Killing' later today..

[JCharles]

Hey, JC, I'm a Long Islander too..! Yeah, it was crazy here yesterday. I'm in bed w/ a bad cold so I didn't see anything, but the noise made by the storm was pretty unsettling.

I think I'll re-watch Kubrick's 'The Killing' later today..
Hi David, Sorry to hear you are under the weather but bed was not a bad place to be yesterday. Unfortunately, I couldn't avoid having to go out. But I survived and managed to squeeze in The Scar. I probably will watch Race Street with Raft and Bendix tonight. The Killing is always great, I watch it at least once a year.

[Hart]

I think I'll finish the rest of Vol. 1 of the Bad Girls of Noir and maybe watch Deray's Flic Story if enough time is left.

[mkronenberg]

Finally got to see Siodmak's CRY OF THE CITY a couple of nights ago. Hope Emerson was terrific. I loved her in the subway station sequence.

[Hard-Boiled-Rick]

Contempt (aka Le Mépris) (1963- Jean Luc Godard)
stars Jack Palance, Brigitte Bardot, and Fritz Lang as himself

[Raven]

While it may be pushing upper the 50's with lots of sunshine outside, inside its dark with plenty of rain slicked streets in "No Questions Asked."

[spress]

Here in NH it's Live Freeze or Die this weekend

Watching
Red Riding 1974 -- a boring, disjointed, ugly mess (but yes, I will watch the other 2, and Ridley Scott's when it comes out)
I am Waiting -- much better (part of the Nikkatsu Noir series)

Reading Fright by Cornell Woolrich

Going to see Ghost Writer

[JCharles]

Chilly and Cloudy here in Long island. Just finished watching The Turning Point. It's a good one, based on a story by Horace McCoy, stars Edmond O'Brien, William Holden, Ed Begley, Ted DeCorsia, and Neville Brand. Some crackling dialogue (especially between O'Brien and Holden) and great shots of LA, including a ride on Angels Flight up Bunker Hill.

Also plowing my way through the neo-noir series Mad Men, Third season DVDs.

Spress, good to hear about someone reading Woolrich, definitely one of the creators of noir. I recently read Phantom Lady and re-watched the film. There must be at least a dozen film noirs based on his novels and stories.

[David]

Really, really cold here on Long Island this morning. Cloudy too.

I re-watched Fuller's 'The Naked Kiss' again last night, and as usual I found myself wondering why. Sam's stuff is not my
cup of tea, though I have crazy respect for him and his scrappiness. Interesting interviews with his widow and daughter
in the extras..

I'm gonna dive into 'Film Noir And The Cinema Of Paranoia' by Dixon today, and maybe re-watch 'Odds Against Tomorrow'.

[JCharles]

Still chilly but the sun has come out. After my Sunday chores, I found time to watch Mystery Street. Hard-Boiled Rick's post on John Alton reminded me that he lensed that one and, of course, it was full of great shadows and sillouhettes. Good performances too by Ricardo Montalban, Elsa Lanchester, and Jan Sterling.

[Steve-O]

Probably won't get any noir in this weekend. I'm on the road and the weather is gonna be great!

[David]

Got my hands on an advance (i.e. bootleg) copy of the neo 'The Missing Person', so I'll try to
squeeze it in between family obligations.

Beautiful, sunny weather this w/e..

[JCharles]

Outstanding weather this weekend, I'll be hitting the Big Apple for sure. I did find time tonight to re-watch The Dark Corner, a classic NYC noir. Joe McDonald's camerawork is excellent throughout and Bendix and Clifton Webb are a hoot. Reed Hadley even gets in on this one and not just as a stentorian narrator!

[Juke Joint Jonny]

Windy, rainy Seattle. I think I'll watch The Unsuspected and Dead Reckoning this weekend and maybe The Captive City with John Forsythe R.I.P.

[spress]

Beautiful in NH, so not much time for movies, but did watch Jar City (aka Myrin) an Icelandic neo-noir from 2006 last night.

[Guy Savage]

Cold and rain. I want my money back. Watching Babes behind Bars in Women's Prison.

[Juke Joint Jonny]

Might be sunny this weekend in Seattle after a crazy day of rain, snow, hail and sunbreaks. Perhaps I'll watch the movie I DIDN'T watch last weekend, The Unsuspected.

[David]

The temp. dropped to normal for this time of year, which is nice. I think I'll re-watch 'Double Indemnity'
this weekend, as it always re-ignites my passion for noir when I've been experiencing too many poor ones.

[JCharles]

Definitely cooler today on Long Island after some summer-like hot ones. Sunny though, a good day for a brisk walk. I did find time to watch 3:10 To Yuma, based on the Elmore Leonard short. Not the Russel Crowe gore-fest but the original with Glenn Ford and a slightly older Van Helflin (starting to look like William Talman). Great interaction between the two and some stark Western landscapes. Directed by Delmer Daves, who did Dark Passage.

[Steve-O]

Cold and wet in the Northeast this weekend (at least we don't have Volcano clouds!)

I'm going to finish watching an entertaining Brit noir -- Dear Murderer and see The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo this weekend.

[bogie]

Rainy this weekend.Ill be watching Street With No Name(1948)
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi835781657/

[Raven]

In the sixties on the western slope up here at 8000 feet with the first thunder storm of the spring. Tonight's feature will be the just received huge upgrade of Baby Face Nelson!

[JCharles]

Cloudy and drizzly here in Long Island. To warm things up, I'm watching Mitchum and Jane Russell in Macao

[spress]

Nashua, NH is like California; it's cold and it's damp. Watched neo-noir Yesterday Was a Lie. Didn't get it, will have to watch again.

Went to a talk on Friday at the Red River Theater in Concord, NH: Beyond the Femme Fatale: Women in Film Noir. Non-fatale characters contrasted with Jane Greer in Out of the Past. Most interesting part was how Glenn Ford was responsible for the deaths of several of the women in The Big Heat because he misread them. Ended with a discussion of the "reunion" of Jane Greer and Robert Mitchum again in Mexico in The Big Steal. We had a quibble. The speaker said it was not noir. I said it was comic noir like Lady on a Train.

[David]

Seasonably cool on Long Island right now..

I'm going to pop in 'A Bullet For Joey' in a little while.

[bogie]

Scene Of The Crime(1949)
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index/?cid=84719
Note Van Johnson was the first pick to play Elliot Ness on the Untouchables.After seeing this film you can understand where they got the idea.I still think Robert Stack was the best pick.

[David]

Seasonably cool on Long Island right now..

I'm going to pop in 'A Bullet For Joey' in a little while.

..and to think that they consider 'Plan 9' the worst film ever made(!) Haven't they seen 'Joey'?!

[JCharles]

Sunny and cool on Long Island today, a good day to get outdoors. I was up pretty early so I screened my new DVD of The Unfaithful with Ann Sheridan and Zachary Scott. As written by David Goodis, the plot is compelling enough and the performances are excellent, especially the leads. It also has some great location shooting of LA, including a ride on Angels Flight.
Later on tonight I think I will get into some noir Westerns. I just read the recently reissued Blood On The Moon by Luke Short and plan to re-watch the Mitchum oater based on it. I also just received the VCI DVD of Silverlode with Dan Duryea, John Payne, and Lizabeth Scott (lensed by John Alton!). This film has a good rep so I'm looking forward to checking it out this weekend.

[David]

I'm gonna check out my new copy of 'Nora Prentiss' later tonight. One of my
all-time faves, it's from the WB Archive Collection.

[spress]

Beautiful in NH today so no midday viewing. Early a.m watched the end of Rusty Knife (58 Japan), part of the Criterion Eclipse Nikkatsu Noir series. Good story of an ex-Yakuza trying to go straight (a familiar American noir theme). The dueling dumptrucks are worth the price of admission. Tonight started Nude in a White Car (60 France).

[Juke Joint Jonny]

Windy, then rainy and sun here in the Seattle area. Right now watching The Bribe with the ravishing Ava Gardner and some dudes...http://bank-img.passion.pro/image/311497-1949-sexy-ava-gardner-the-bribe-vintage-photo-392c.jpg

[eubiecat]

Windy, then rainy and sun here in the Seattle area. Right now watching The Bribe with the ravishing Ava Gardner and some dudes...http://bank-img.passion.pro/image/311497-1949-sexy-ava-gardner-the-bribe-vintage-photo-392c.jpg

Ah, a fellow Seattle noir afficionado!

I just watched a French sorta-noir, LES AMANTS DU TAGE, which gets bad reviews on IMDB but was quite riveting all the way through. It has a little bit of THIRD MAN flavor, with the presence of Trevor Howard, a musical score not unlike Anton Karas' zither reveries, and the exploration of post-war Lisbon (airier than musty Vienna, but just as picturesque). Even the ending oddly smacks of THIRD MAN's finale.

This film is well worth seeing. I've learned to take IMDB reviews with an entire shaker-full of salt. (Ditto, Netflix reviews...)

[Harry Fabian]

I'm gonna check out my new copy of 'Nora Prentiss' later tonight. One of my
all-time faves, it's from the WB Archive Collection.

Netflix does not carry this. They are really start to slip with their noir acquisitions.

[Juke Joint Jonny]

Netflix doesn't carry any of the Warner Archive releases, unfortunately.

[spress]

Where did you see/find the film (LES AMANTS DU TAGE)?

[JCharles]

Windy, then rainy and sun here in the Seattle area. Right now watching The Bribe with the ravishing Ava Gardner and some dudes...http://bank-img.passion.pro/image/311497-1949-sexy-ava-gardner-the-bribe-vintage-photo-392c.jpg
I watched The Bribe recently, definitely a solid tropical noir. As far as the dudes go, for me, Charles Laughton steals every scene he's in. The set piece at the end with Vincent Price is great too. (I won't say anymore, I don't want to spoil this for anyone who hasn't seen it. If you're in that category, see it asap).

[bogie]

[QUOTE=Hart;1078]Re-watched Huston's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Maybe not a full-fledged noir, but John certainly incorporated many elements of it into the film.[/
Keep an eye out for Bobby Blake,Ann Sheridan,Jack Holt,and John Huston(Bits)]

[eubiecat]

I found it online: http://www.foriegnmoviesddl.com/2010/01/les-amants-du-tage-1955-henri-verneuil.html

A quite nice print, with subtitles in English. Well worth DLing/viewing.

[bogie]

Kiss Me Deadly(1955)
Ralph Meeker as Mike Hammer.
http://www.impawards.com/1955/kiss_me_deadly.html

[David]

Seasonable and pleasant on Long Island today.

I'm looking forward to 'The Blue Dahlia' on TCM tonight, as it's one I've never had the pleasure to own.

[David]

Definitely going to check out 'The Killer Inside Me' remake this weekend - hopefully tonight...

..and I believe we're going to have occasional rainstorms in NY this w/e. Have a nice one,
everybody.

[Steve-O]

Sunny with a chance of Thundershowers...

It's bike week at my casa. The Great Escape last night... and Code Two this weekend.
301540

[David]

Very warm and muggy on Long Island this w/e.

It's almost summer, and I'm in Westerns-mode - so I think I'll split the difference and watch 'Blood On The Moon'
this weekend. Also, maybe Siodmak's 'Killers'...

[David]

Muggy and chance of thunderstorms in NY this weekend.. No problem, as I've got the
Columbia Noir II boxed set to kick back with. Can't wait to see my 'Pushover' all cleaned-up..

Have a nice w/e everybody.

[Juke Joint Jonny]

Ninety in Seattle. Cooling this weekend. I will also be checking out the Sony/Columbia set time permitting.

[Nauga]

It's real hard to come up with an excuse to sit inside and watch movies when it's 75 and clear as a bell...

Eh, who am I kidding? Columbia's second box looks better than the first, IMO :)

[David]

Very warm (mid 90s) this weekend on Long Island.

I've got a bunch of obscure noirs on dvd-r to check out, as well as a few more
from the recently released boxed sets. Oh yeah, and a fresh copy of Clement's
'Purple Noon'!

Have a great w/e, all.

[David]

Not as brutal this weekend (*whew*) - more like low 80s here on Long Island.

I'm in the mood to re-visit 'The Blue Gardenia', and maybe some French noir..

Have a nice w/e everybody.

[Steve-O]

it is nice out this weekend. Going to revisit Appointment with Danger.