http://www.backalleynoir.com// things not noir. en Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:28:00 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.backalleynoir.com/images/misc/rss.png http://www.backalleynoir.com// http://www.backalleynoir.com//showthread.php?556-Lipstick-On-Your-Collar&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:03:47 GMT This really is a little bit off-topic - although it does have a number of noir elements - but I've just seen Dennis Potter's Lipstick On Your Collar last night. You can watch it for free, and in full, on YouTube here:

http://www.youtube.com/show/lipstickonyourcollar

It's just about the most amazing thing I've ever seen - possibly even better than Twin Peaks - and an extraordinarily accurate social satire on post-war Britain.

I think it was made about twenty-five years ago which is even more amazing. ]]> Off Topic Stuff Andrew666 http://www.backalleynoir.com//showthread.php?556-Lipstick-On-Your-Collar http://www.backalleynoir.com//showthread.php?551-Femme-Fatales&goto=newpost Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:36:01 GMT Noir has many intricate elements that weave together to form a tapestry of thrills. One of these elements is the femme fatale - and I thought we... Noir has many intricate elements that weave together to form a tapestry of thrills.

One of these elements is the femme fatale - and I thought we might start a favourite femme fatale thread - I can't see it anywhere else on the site, though I may have overlooked it.

Here's my first contribution - Joan Bennett in Scarlet Street:

]]> Off Topic Stuff Andrew666 http://www.backalleynoir.com//showthread.php?551-Femme-Fatales http://www.backalleynoir.com//showthread.php?546-where-s-my-post-Steve-O&goto=newpost Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:30:58 GMT Was that nice? Richard Was that nice?


Richard ]]> Off Topic Stuff Richard http://www.backalleynoir.com//showthread.php?546-where-s-my-post-Steve-O http://www.backalleynoir.com//showthread.php?542-Rubicon-on-AMC&goto=newpost Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:51:58 GMT Anybody here watch it?

I started watching this show and I quite like it. It's been getting mixed reviews, some reviews calling it slow and dull but I find it intriguing and far more entertaining than most shows that have come out in the past couple of years. It's not getting praise like other AMC shows 'Mad Men' and 'Breaking Bad' but I sure hope it gets picked up for a second season. I think if you enjoy political/conspiracy thrillers, then I would check it out.

]]> Off Topic Stuff Keith http://www.backalleynoir.com//showthread.php?542-Rubicon-on-AMC http://www.backalleynoir.com//showthread.php?538-The-Take-2009&goto=newpost Sun, 22 Aug 2010 05:08:18 GMT For a kick-ass made for television British crime film, check out THE TAKE. It's a 4 parter. The rise and inevitable fall of a psychotic criminal. Great stuff. ]]> Off Topic Stuff Guy Savage http://www.backalleynoir.com//showthread.php?538-The-Take-2009 http://www.backalleynoir.com//showthread.php?531-The-Proposition-%282005%29&goto=newpost Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:49:28 GMT Ok I just have to implore anybody who has not seen this film to do so. If you hate it, I'll send you the cost of the rental.

Set in late 19th century colonial Australia, Guy Pearce plays Charlie Burns a bushranger like criminal who formally made up the Burns gang with his older brother Arthur and his younger brother Mikey. When his older brother leads the Burns gang into killing a family and raping the mother, Charlie decides he must take his younger brother away from the power of his older brother. Shortly after he leaves his older brother, he and his younger brother are caught by the police. Charlie's younger brother is sentenced to be hanged by the neck until death. It is here that the story begins when the head of police Captain Stanley(Ray Winstone) offers Charlie "a proposition", if Charlie hunts down and kills his older brother, the chief of police will let his younger brother live.

The film is so drenched in dust and dirt you can feel it. It is very graphic and the violence is wince enducing. Yet this is not violence for the sake of violence, this is meaningful and deep. The imagery and scenery are superb, sunsets over endless flat deserts are used repeatedly to great effect. Even though I emphasis the brutallity it wasn't gratuitous, it is what the story is about, a violent time and violent men. I found it ironic that the most educated and well read of all the characters was the most violent one. Authur Burns really appreciated a great sunset too.


Guy Pearce is brilliant as Charlie. Ray Winstone is captivating as the troubled police captain who has been brought out from England to Australia to 'civilise' the country. Danny Huston is also superb as Arthur Burns. Not one character in this film is black and white, all of them are deep and well expanded.

Anyway, man (or woman) does not live by noir alone and this is really an exceptional film, I think you guys would really dig it.

Here is a shot of the remarkable, wonderfully talented Danny Huston, Arthur Burns. Well.... he is John Huston's son, can we expect anything less! Walter Huston is one of my favorite actors. What a family tree. Ok Anjelica is no slouch either.

]]> Off Topic Stuff Christina Delassalle http://www.backalleynoir.com//showthread.php?531-The-Proposition-%282005%29