http://filmsnoir.net Films Noir: all about film noir Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:23:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Caught (1949)    Max Ophuls renders the most elegant and romantic noir melodrama you will ever see. Robert Ryan, Barbara Bel Geddes and James Mason are superb in a  toxic triangle of entrapment and maniacal control.  Ryan is a rich nuerotic who marries Bel Geddes to prove he can, and Mason is the doctor committed to [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/filmsnoir/HiCj/~3/H1CraUogdoc/summary-reviews-no-escape.html http://filmsnoir.net/film_noir/summary-reviews-no-escape.html In Night Editor (1946) a sexually charged cult noir Janis Carter plays a rotten rich dame who double-crosses her cop lover. Janis Carter noirs: Night Editor (1946) Framed (1947) I Love Trouble (1948) The Woman on Pier 13 (1949) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/filmsnoir/HiCj/~3/jg_NM_o4AYo/femme-noir-3-janis-carter.html http://filmsnoir.net/film_noir/femme-noir-3-janis-carter.html I like to think here at FilmsNoir.Net, readers are made aware of movies that are under the radar and do not fit established categories, genres or movie lists. Many such films were made by major studios on modest budgets and while not likely to make best-of listings or have major genre standing, they are [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/filmsnoir/HiCj/~3/gu236_QpZu8/double-feature-young-man-with-a-horn-and-a-lady-without-passport.html http://filmsnoir.net/film_noir/double-feature-young-man-with-a-horn-and-a-lady-without-passport.html David Goodis… To A Pulp, a film biography of noir writer David Goodis, premieres this Friday, March 5, in Philadelphia. For film-maker Larry Withers making the movie was a peak into the once-hidden life of his mother, Elaine Astor, who had previously been married to Goodis.  Read all about it at Mike Lipkin’s Noir Journal. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/filmsnoir/HiCj/~3/BjKgayFK2Ms/david-goodis-to-a-pulp.html http://filmsnoir.net/film_noir/david-goodis-to-a-pulp.html Some Dead Peasant Policy Holders. From Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) In the United States many large corporations take out secret ‘dead peasant’ or ‘dead janitor’ life insurance over the lives of rank-and-file workers for a tax-free payout on the death of an employee. Insurers have sold millions of these policies to companies such as Dow [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/filmsnoir/HiCj/~3/UYW8ptqJD_E/dead-peasants.html http://filmsnoir.net/film_noir/dead-peasants.html Edited clip from Force of Evil (1948) directed by Abraham Polonsky,?and screenplay by Abraham Polonsky and Ira Wolfert from Wolfert’s novel “Tucker’s People”: Extracted and edited from an article by Richard Teitelbaum at Bloomberg.com Secret AIG Document Shows Goldman Sachs Minted Most Toxic CDOs: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/filmsnoir/HiCj/~3/uqb1_q7jeic/the-numbers-racket.html http://filmsnoir.net/film_noir/the-numbers-racket.html “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose… “ Universal International Pictures Director: Robert Montgomery Cinematography: Russell Metty Cast: Robert Montgomery as Lucky Gagin Thomas Gomez (AAN) as Pancho Wanda Hendrix as Pila Andrea King as Marjorie Lundeen Fred Clark as Frank Hugo Art Smith as Bill Retz Screenplay: Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer, and Joan Harrison Based on the novel Ride the Pink Horse by Dorothy [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/filmsnoir/HiCj/~3/s1ugIchu7wA/ride-the-pink-horse-1947-a-heart-full-of-soul.html http://filmsnoir.net/film_noir/ride-the-pink-horse-1947-a-heart-full-of-soul.html Blues in the Night (1941) … a very young Elia Kazan as a dizzy jazz clarinetist Director  Anatole Litvak  |  DP  Ernest Haller http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/filmsnoir/HiCj/~3/d_ngLQJt1k4/cinematic-cities-new-york-blues-in-the-night.html http://filmsnoir.net/film_noir/cinematic-cities-new-york-blues-in-the-night.html I Love Trouble (1948): Roseanne Murray as Fanny (uncredited) in her last bit part… http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/filmsnoir/HiCj/~3/7QiozHUAtbY/noir-comic-moments-3-fanny-the-waitress.html http://filmsnoir.net/film_noir/noir-comic-moments-3-fanny-the-waitress.html Laura (1944) I recently started reading a ‘heavy’ tome by feminist academic Susan Felleman, Art in the Cinematic Imagination (University of Texas Press, 2006), and found her discussion of the portrait as a central motif  in certain films noir worth sharing. “The portraits, too inert and non narrative to realistically inspire such identification within a realist scenario, [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/filmsnoir/HiCj/~3/E6KSHdaRdBA/film-noir-and-the-portrait.html http://filmsnoir.net/film_noir/film-noir-and-the-portrait.html