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Re: Noirvember
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2022 6:39 pm
by Lencho of the Apes
Get Outta Town - who knows? 1960
Perfect no-budget dumpster noir, fits on my headshelf somewhere close to Carnival Of Souls and Who Killed Teddy Bear. As long as you don't expect conventionally good filmmaking, it's charming beyond belief.
Re: Noirvember
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2022 9:57 pm
by Silga
rischka wrote: ↑Sun Nov 06, 2022 2:29 pm
speaking of garfield he finally gets a non-criminal role. an escaped prisoner of war hunted by the nazis. or is he... iirc garfield was considered the forerunner of brando's acting style. ofc he died quite young, hounded to death by HUAC. RIP hero
I've just finished another Garfield noir where he also stands up against nazis.
Dangerously They Live (Robert Florey, 1941)
Fun, but a little unfocused story-wise
war time/spy noir picture.
Re: Noirvember
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2022 10:04 pm
by Silga
Also watched this absorbing and beautiful noir -
The Shanghai Gesture (Josef von Sternberg, 1941)
Ona Munson as "Mother" Gin Sling.
Re: Noirvember
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2022 5:36 am
by ---
rischka wrote: ↑Tue Nov 01, 2022 10:00 pm
who's that guy
(noiry kautners) - see romanze in moll
ok i will do it rn
Re: Noirvember
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2022 7:40 am
by ---
holy crikey that was tight
Re: Noirvember
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2022 1:24 am
by Silga
Johnny Eager (Mervyn LeRoy, 1941) 9/10
Van Heflin absolutely deserved his Oscar win. What an amazing performance by him and everyone else, really. Spectacular noir!
Re: Noirvember
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2022 2:01 am
by Evelyn Library P.I.
Van Heflin is the best.
Re: Noirvember
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2022 7:34 pm
by greennui
Oh yeah, I rewatched Girl with Hyacinths, I guess it's kinda noirish.
Didn't know until now that it was based on a real person.
https://skbl.se/en/article/UllaBillquist
Re: Noirvember
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2022 7:53 pm
by rischka
that's so sad! wow. a wonderful film
also van heflin is the best
i haven't forgotten noirvember!
Re: Noirvember
Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2022 2:40 am
by rischka
watched the callbird (finnoir 1946)
to quote punq: "drenched in tragic prostitute story and nude sauna scenes" but it's a bit better than that sounds. down with the oppressor!!
Re: Noirvember
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2022 2:49 am
by ---
NOIR REPORT (noirport)
Deadline USA (Richard Brooks, 1952) - this was fine, actually it sucked. good noirsssspapermunn shits are hard to find
The Cry Baby Killer (Justus Addiss, 1958) - this was fine, actually
Crime Wave (John Paizs, 1985) - definitely not a noir, but a weirdo movie abt noir among other things in a roundabout way
re re re re REEEEEWAAAAAAAAAATCH
In a Lonely Place (Nick Ray, 1950) - you know what i like it, but i also read the book this month and that i like much better
They Live by Night (Nick Ray, 1948) - now you see, this book is empty and dull. that's why it made such a good film. it's the best romance ever, for sure, told entirely with eyes
Re: Noirvember
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2023 9:33 pm
by rischka
noirvember guess the movie
Re: Noirvember
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2023 11:31 pm
by Lencho of the Apes
La Noche Avanza?
Re: Noirvember
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2023 11:53 pm
by rischka
no. but i need to see that one!
i will say that it's very famous and most of my screenshots were instantly recognizable lol
Re: Noirvember
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2023 2:28 am
by rischka
here's 2 more.
Re: Noirvember
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2023 11:56 am
by Evelyn Library P.I.
Sunset Blvd?
Re: Noirvember
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2023 1:39 pm
by rischka
no but you're getting closer
the star famously said it was 'lit by cigarettes'
Re: Noirvember
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2023 6:06 pm
by rischka
it's aways fun to watch alan ladd get tough with people and remember he was like 5'5"
lucky jordan (1942) reunites him with 'this gun for hire' director frank tuttle, playing a mob boss who can't avoid conscription but goes AWOL (kidnapping a nurse along the way!) and ends up busting a ring of spies. fun chase at formal gardens somewhere beyond far rockaway (far beyond!)
Más allá del olvido (1956) proto-vertigo argentine noir from hugo del carril. this is apparently him staring into the camera
a grief stricken widower happens upon his wife's double, albeit with wildly divergent personality. if she'd only behave....
Re: Noirvember
Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2023 2:45 am
by rischka
retreating to my genre cave, i'm thinking about filling in blanks in tspdt 1000 noirs list. approximately 457 of them
starting with appointment with danger! (d. lewis allen, 1950)
an excellent old fashioned heist film about the postal service....
with alan ladd tough talking guys twice his size
great paranoid atmosphere in...gary, indiana...
next up, deadline at dawn (1946)
Re: Noirvember
Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2023 4:24 am
by rischka
no no deadline at dawn didn't work for me at all. outrageous plots can be fun but come on, cornwell woolrich and clifford odetts!!!
*i deleted the spoiler -- it wasn't fair cuz i missed a bunch of the movie*
no chemistry between the leads and some kind of assumption that america's service members couldn't possibly commit murder. come again?
this appears to be director harold clurman's only film which is not a huge surprise to me. it's completely implausible but contains some nice musuraca cinematography. several popular noir tropes in developmental stages here. i just didn't buy it for a second. also i fell asleep but i didn't care enough to see what i missed
ok i'm watching it again and it looks damned good
i do kind of get it - it's a one off like wendkos' the burglar. but i'm not fan of girl detective susan hayward and the male lead is just dull
i did miss some stuff. the plot is wild. odetts dialogue can be really too much. kinda like this movie
it makes progressively less sense
Re: Noirvember
Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2023 2:41 am
by rischka
la noche avanza (gavaldon 1952) pedro armendariz on steroids. he must have enjoyed playing an enormous asshole. but there are really no likeable characters here
eva martino i don't think i've seen before, she's very beautiful and only made a few films but she's just one of pedro's harem
he looks good without the stache
interesting set designs.... more after i see how he gets out of this jam (or not)
no no i would never do that :p isn't anyone noirvembering this year
Re: Noirvember
Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2023 4:20 pm
by greennui
Had been planning to do noirvember but caught the brit bug from the other guys , might get a few over the line before the end of the month.
Re: Noirvember
Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2023 11:39 pm
by ---
basil dearden's Pool of London, bada boom bada bing
Re: Noirvember
Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2023 1:35 am
by rischka
ok i don't wanna poach people from #CoMo
does oppenheimer count as noir
Re: Noirvember
Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2023 5:10 am
by rischka
i really liked the killer not least cuz i knew all the songs
the colors! the lighting seemed to shift all the time
and tilda swinton who i really thought i'd grown tired of, but i was wrong
i thought michael fassbender was german but he's actually irish? ok. he's good
heading over to lbxd to read reviews. this counts as noir right? in the tradition of le samourai and blast of silence.
Le Samouraï but make it… funny?
yes. hope im not destroying the forum with my mainstream tastes
Re: Noirvember
Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2023 3:38 am
by rischka
the enforcer (1951) best of my recent batch. stylish copaganda about murder inc w humphrey bogart as a crusading DA
ghost directed by raoul walsh? but he gave all the credit to 'bretaigne windust' whoever that may be. LOTS of flashbacks
Re: Noirvember
Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2023 2:51 am
by rischka
the dark past (mate 1948) pretty crazy home invasion of a psychiatrist who manages to cure maniac william holden, alas too late. lee j cobb would've been much better in the holden role. the psychoanalysis is so dumb yet i couldn't stop watching it
Re: Noirvember
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2023 4:32 am
by rischka
Re: Noirvember
Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2023 9:21 pm
by rischka
i walk alone (byron haskin 1948)
this was kinda fun as it's burt and izzy's first film together. kirk plays a slimey bastard which he could do in his sleep i think
burt - his somewhat more innocent partner went to prison for 14 years. now he's back to tell everyone kirk's childhood nickname: DINK
and to get 50% of his business as promised and also he's still taller. dink has other ideas and uses a cute singer to distract burt
which turns out to be a mistake. they're doing their stock characters here but they're still fresh
449 to go on tspdt 1000 noirs list!! also look out greennui i am coming for you and i bet i have way more official shorts to watch
pushover (quine 1954) a twisted double indemnity knock off and fred macmurray just hasn't learned a thing. quite good
Re: Noirvember
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2023 9:11 am
by greennui
rischka wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2023 4:32 am i didn't realize that maria montez and jean-pierre aumont were married irl. but not for long as she died in 1951 aged just 39
Their daughter: Tina Aumont
Villiers and JP Aumont were brothers as well.