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Barbara Loden was a method actress whose beauty and talent won her several supporting roles ranging from studio films...

Did anyone attend last night?

I'm curious about the DCP's. How did the stereopsis hold up in digital prints?

Ladies, since the original posting, Kiss Me Deadly has added a lot of new underthings including Retro Harnesses and Vargas Girdles.

Check out this season's new line:
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"hard-boiled' refers, or should refer to, invoking humanity by showing inhumanity and suffering through boundaries crossed, hardship endured, consequences paid, relentlessly.

There used to be a...

Okay, Hitchcock operates on his own plane, we know that, but ...
if you take the "noirish elements" out of NOTORIOUS it wouldn't be NOTORIOUS.
You'd have nothing left. It's a noir in its noirish...

Wiseguy.

No, I can't find the stills I want. I need to figure out how to make screen captures that correspond to my essay.


Richard

A note for the ladies here who go to film noir screenings in period dress.

While looking for stills to illustrate my review of Robert Aldrich's KISS ME DEADLY (1955), I came across this British...

Still trying to play the trailer but all I get is stops and starts.
Mostly stops.
The entire film is monochrome?
Does it have a kind of RepoMan vibe?

Richard

I had no idea there was a new one. I wouldn't miss it. I have a substantial library of Mexican films on DVD dating back to the 1920s and the search for titles goes on. I agree some remarkable talent...

Oh, I think Stevenson accomplished that as well.
He was more stylized than, say, Howard Hawks or John Huston but not as stylized as Edward Dmytryk.
Nobody got away with the things Dmytryk did in...

This looks like the 1957 film.
Have you seen it on DVD somewhere?


Richard

That's a fairly representative line-up, but I should think you'd want to add his most mysterious and unsettling noir, The Breach / Le Boucher and the epic Violette.

Try to watch a region 2 edition...

Not many Chabrol fans here, I guess?
I thought there would be more input on this vitally important French master of film noir.

I find it interesting that his career was started with, and...

I've been watching Claude Chabrol films my entire life.
How sad there won't be a new Chabrol film every year.
The French don't throw their artists under the bus when they get old, and Chabrol made...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/movies/13chabrol.html

By DAVE KEHR
Published: September 12, 2010

Claude Chabrol, the director and critic who helped give rise to the French New Wave and who...

I've always found Stevenson to be a visually interesting director, especially in his compositions, blockings and groupings.

I still hope to see this film one of these days.

Richard

Harold Lloyd was a talented and accomplished stereoscopic photographer.
The first book is properly done although the stereo pairs are a bit small:
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So many good noirs that year, including several blaxploitation noirs.
I had to leave out many titles because a poll only allows ten options.
The true-life telefilm Honor Thy Father was one of the...

Vote for your favorite noir that year and perhaps say a few words about it.

Richard

It's been several years since I've seen it, but another raw human touch is when the wife (Phyllis Thaxter) dies her hair blond to make herself look like the bar girl (Patricia Neal) who has...

Yes, happy birthday to Alfred Hitchcock.
You know, I've been a Hitchcock fan my entire life and here I am in my fifties, damnit.
I have EVERYTHING by Hitchcock.
My favorite Hitchcock film, and a...

The Proposition isn't a western, no matter how hard they try to make it look like one. The American west didn't happen in Australia. The story was good, if a bit sadistic, and I thought it over-did...

Although fatally flawed, 8 MILLION WAYS TO DIE (1986) is a genuine neo-noir in the best tradition of noir.
The region 2 DVD from Spain is widescreen and anamorphic but quality leaves a lot to be...

I loved her performances in THE FOUNTAINHEAD, DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL and especially HUD.
In THE BREAKING POINT, her only noir, she got to step out of type, playing the bad blonde.
She didn't...

The car chase in RONIN is a favorite of mine, too. And I think you're right -- it's the last great white-knuckle chase sequence, and I will add, the last authentic car chase in terms of being staged...