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Hammer Film Noir 4 [DVD] [1954] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Posted by Notcot on Feb 4, 2011 in Noir
Boston Noir (Akashic Noir)
Posted by Notcot on Feb 4, 2011 in Noir
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Seattle Noir (Akashic Noir)
Posted by Notcot on Feb 3, 2011 in Noir
Havana Noir (Akashic Noir)
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Murder & Blackmail Collection 1: Film Noir [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Posted by Notcot on Feb 2, 2011 in Noir
Femme Noir: Bad Girls of Film
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While the City Sleeps (1956) [DVD]
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MGM Film Noir [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
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Copenhagen Noir (Akashic Noir)
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The Killing [DVD] [1956]
Posted by Notcot on Feb 1, 2011 in Noir
Among Stanley Kubrick’s early film output The Killing stands out as the most lastingly influential: Quentin Tarantino credits the film as a huge inspiration for Reservoir Dogs and just about any movie or TV show that plays around with its own internal chronology owes the same debt. This sort of convoluted crime caper had really kicked off with John Huston’s The Asphalt Jungle in 1950. From then on, nouveau noir scripts kept trying to find new ways of telling very similar stories. Here the novel Clean Break is adapted for the screen in a jigsaw-puzzle structure that caught Kubrick’s eye. With a dry narration we’re introduced to the key players in a racetrack heist as it’s being planned, but the story bounces back and forth between what happens to each of them during and before the big event. All of this keeps the audience guessing as to exactly how it will go wrong, while the downbeat telling, the unsympathetic characters and the excessively dramatic score clearly foretell that it will go wrong from the start. The denouement is comically daft no matter how many times you see it.
On the DVD: The Killing is a no-frills DVD transfer, in 4:3 ratio and with its original mono soundtrack. Criminally, just one trailer is all that’s been dug up as an extra. –Paul Tonks
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