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National Film Noir

'Prescott Place' offers film noir homage in a postmodern fantasy

  • Prescott Place
  • April 26, 2012
The short film noir fantasy "Prescott Place" will screen at this year's Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival in the DGA Theatre on...
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Obama Romney and the Fred MacMurray reality of compromise

In the old film noir era (1940s-1950s), where compromised characters were as common as ants, and moral certainty simply did not exist, Fred...
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TCM March 26 Star of the Day, Sterling Hayden shined in film noir, comedy, et al

  • TCM
  • March 26, 2012
Born March 26, 1916, Sterling Hayden was a strapping 6'5" blonde haired, blue eyed model in the years before becoming a staple in B-grade...
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Every concussion tells a different story: A review of Farewell, My Lovely

When you rely on the 20 year old cycle of nostalgia as your form of entertainment, you know that the material is going to date instantly. It&rsquo...
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So Evil My Love: Tale of deception, obsession, betrayal, and revenge

Ray Milland in 1948's gothic thriller So Evil My Love is in personality very charming like Cary Grant in Suspicion and plays up to Ann Todd who...
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The Movie of the Week: The Stranger

“Public domain” movies (movies that the copyright has either expired or was invalid in the first place) are the good news/bad news joke...
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Classic films in focus: "On Dangerous Ground" (1952)

Although women's melodrama and film noir might seem like incompatible genres, there are a few notable occasions when they come together in a...
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Classic films in focus: "The Scar" (1948)

Sometimes good actors make bad movies, and such is the case with Paul Henreid and Joan Bennett in the dreadfully tepid noir picture, "The Scar...
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Classic films in focus: "I Wake Up Screaming" (1941)

Betty Grable is not an actress one normally associates with film noir, but she makes an unusual foray into Dark City in H. Bruce Humberstone's...
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Classic thrillers on Netflix Instant Viewing

Netflix Instant Viewing currently has a number of great classic thrillers available for instant streaming, including some of film noir's most...
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