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Wanda is a fine movie, sadly neglected, and probably could be classified as neonoir. I have not seen it for some time, but still sticks in my mind.

Steve Sekely's The Scar (Hollow Triumph), 1948, Paul Henreid, who also produced, plays a gangster who assumes another's identity, but, like Jack Nicholson in The Passenger, makes a fateful choice of...

A richly rewarding film that demands multiple viewings. Losey, escaping the black list, did well for himself in GB.

Absolutely, and one of my favorites.

Edwin L. Marin's Race Street, 1948, bookie George Raft on the vengence trail, William Bendix as the cop trying to keep him in one piece. Prime noir with all the fixings, including a femme fatale,...

John M. Stahl's "film noir in color", Leave Her to Heaven, 1945, in a stunning Bluray edition.

Rene Clair's noirish take on Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, 1945, VCI Standard and Bluray, August 27th.

Truly great opening shot (in restored version), akin to similar one-take tracking shots in Hitchcock's Frenzy and Antonioni's The Passenger.

John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate, 1962, Sinatra's finest moment in films.

Brooklyn's Finest tanked when it was released, but I thought it was interesting, well-paced, and very well-acted. Three potentially doomed protaganists!

Jules Dassin's gritty Thieves Highway, 1949, Richard Conte as a long-haul trucker battling Lee J. Cobb's corrupt market operator. Strong supporting cast help to make this a classic noir about...

Joan'sDigest.com, good article on women in 50s noirs in issue one. Got this from the website Fragments of Noir, which has something good about film noir pretty much everyday.

I always liked Ellen Barkin, she was particularly effective as a cynical FBI agent in the recent Brooklyn's Finest.

Yes, Vince Edwards was appropriately sleazy in The Killing, Rogue Cop, and Murder by Contract. John Cassavetes did Johnny Staccatto on tv, a Peter Gunn knockoff, but pretty good all the same.

Jack Nicholson's underrated The Two Jakes, 1990. Follow the money.

Ted Tetzlaff's Johnny Allegro, 1949, good George Raft starrer, with a luminous Nina Foch as the femme fatale, and George Macready revising his Gilda villain: he's called Vallin here instead of...

Cool. I always liked this even I don't understand a word of it. Sirius plays it once in a while.

The restored Welles's cut of Touch of Evil, 1958.

The coolest. Why are those people just sitting there?

I can never view this film too many times.

Michael Mann's stylish Thief, 1981. James Caan, much like Walter Matthau's Charley Varrick, is an independent, but he is co-opted by the Mob for just one job and then finds he can't get back out. He...

Henry Hathaway's Niagara, 1953, coming in Bluray from Fox in July. Bonus features are reportedly slim.

The car chase in Ronin is great, but too many innocent bystanders get clipped. In Bullitt (my favorite, I mean McQueen, right), The French Connection, and The SevenUps, only the bad guys get smoked....

One of my favorite neonoirs, great soundtrack. There is also a good car chase in Friedkin's Jade, which, while not a great film, has its moments.

Excellent video! I was there once, but only dimly remember it. As im currently reading the recent novel Palisades Park, by Alan Brennert, which traces a family from the 30s thru the early 70s and how...