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Just watched a double bill with Ellen Barkin - 'Sea of Love' and 'Siesta'.

Apart from having a dynamite body, I don't think she ever should have got the job.

Really annoying.

Don't know that I've seen a movie by Boyle that I thought worked except for maybe 'Shallow Grave'.

However, I'll give it a try. I really liked the original version of 'Trance' (2001).

Agreed. White much more reader-friendly than the black.

Then there's the never-to-be-forgotten 'Jail Bait' (1954), an exhilaratingly awful and hilarious camp classic directed by Ed Wood, starring Lyle Talbot and Steve Reeves.

The film is posted at...

Voila!

http://forum.cinefaniac.fr/viewtopic.php?t=7731&p=33358

The AFI has hosted a Noir City event the last several years at the AFI Silver Theater in Silver Spring, MD just outside DC, no?

Love it, though I have some catching up to do. Still have to see Season 3 which came out a little while ago on disc.

My preferred way to watch these series is 'one season, one sitting' - though I...

All of Pete Dexter:

http://www.seattleweekly.com/content/printVersion/1632126/

To add the reading list: Sweden's Kjell Eriksson, 'The Princess of Burundi', 'The Cruel Stars of the Night', 'The Demon of Dakar'. Superb crime fiction and among the best English translations I've...

Also 'Crime Scenes: Movie Poster Art of the Film Noir' by Lawrence Bassoff. It's available for under ten bucks on many sites located through bookfinder.com, a book source aggregator.

'Teenage Doll' tightly directed by Roger Corman and beautifully shot by Floyd Crosby (High Noon) is really pretty good.

'Girl Gang' on the other hand is breathtakingly bad but I still have a lot...

As it turns out, 'Girl Gang' (1954), 'Teenage Doll' (1957) and 'Teenage Gang Debs'
(1966).

I watched these straight through after stumbling across this decade-old article in Bright Lights Film...

Whoa, this is BIG! Good work.

Good for you for chasing down Olive on this.

I wish that some of the various MOD releasers would start bundling more e.g. Warners with the five Film Noir Classics titles recently announced.

Sooner or later, someone had to do it.

After seasons of the tearing irony and comic mordancy of 'Justified' and 'Breaking Bad', there had to be a full-on satirical blow-off just one step behind.
...

"Noir is, first and foremost, style. It's like kabuki, or, more to the point, the blues — a folk art defined by its conventions, by a sensibility and a form. The best noir is pointed, not so much...

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Read on:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/movies/judith-crist-film-critic-dies-at-90.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

I've read a couple of the books. Frankly, I found them way too homespun and ingratiating.

I also think that they're badly over-written and that's where the TV series trumps. I've enjoyed it quite...

More than a good start:

http://www.gaskcadd.com/ssk_pix/NEO_NOIR2012.pdf

Agreed. Ellroy's DVD commentaries are an embarrassment. However, he came through well enough a couple of years ago where he guested on TCM to introduce and follow-up on screenings of 'Murder by...

There's also Toronto's grand Union Station which is undergoing a spectacular renovation and expansion.

If interested, search Google images, 'Union Station Toronto'.

Read on...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/aug/01/vertigo-hitchcock-bfi-greatest-film?CMP=twt_gu

I've just finished two wonderful titles 'Little Criminals' and 'The Rage' by Irish crime writer, Gene Kerrigan.

Kerrigan is the real thing, an old-school proceduralist but one with a deeply noir...

I have a copy of 'The Flame' but it's not good, about a 2/5 - which makes it watchable but only just. If that makes no difference, PM me.