Somebody asked for direction ...into Noir!!!
I strongly believe that for essential initiation to Film Noir
one should go to:
-The Night and the City - Jules Dassin (50)
-On Dangerous Ground - Nick Ray (52)
-Le Samoura Jean-Pierre Melville (67)
-The Long Good Friday - John Mackenzie (80)
-Bad Lieutenant - Abel Ferrara (92)
these 5 films cover the genre and span its evolution thru the
decades in all aspects/icons/locations/countries/gender
roles/criminal activities/sex &
madness/armory/politics/camera style/editing
style/direction/acting abilities &
performances/loneliness & abscence/nastiness &
bile...etc...etc...
all those will get you into the mood....
now, spend friday night reviewing those....
walk around in a big mall for two hours.....then in a city
(any size) for another two...
drive slowly back home....
start your favorite drink around 5PM
then watch:
The Spy who Came In From The Cold - Martin Ritt (65)
.....and the two John Le Carr頠BBC series (Tinker Tailor...and
Smileys People)...and you are done and Noired/Blackened for
the rest of you life...
for now on ANYTHING will be Noir somehow...especially the
good ones, the accepted ones, the safe ones that all the noir
anthologies will recommend....evil and mayhem will creep in
every 'real' show you might even zap-stumble upon...
don't forget to refill...after the stumble...
now read: The Getaway Man by Andrew Vachss and The Dark
Fantastic by Stanley Ellin...
you are dark my friend and you feel good...
Steve le Montois de D鴲oit
> From: Todd Mason <
Todd.Mason@tvguide.com>
> Reply-To:
rara-avis@icomm.ca
> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 18:37:00 -0500
> To: "'
rara-avis@icomm.ca'" <
rara-avis@icomm.ca>
> Subject: RE: RARA-AVIS: Noir Films: DJ
Mark
>
> Well, I saw the butchered TOUCH OF EVIL decades ago
on commercial
> television, and liked it, and saw the "recontructed"
version in an "art"
> theater on its release a few years ago, and liked
that, too. Likewise the
> Brackett, et al. THE BIG SLEEP...it's been such a
long time since I saw the
> shorter version, probably further cut for
television, that the longer
> version released on VHS in the '80s (or was the
"restoration" more recent?
> further restoration?) is probably the one I'd be
happier with.
>
> As for availability, don't know. I'm still waiting
impatiently for the RKO
> Lewton-produced horror and suspense films to finally
emerge on DVD. Next
> year, I'm told.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net [mailto:
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net]
> Which Touch of Evil? The original release or the
recently reconstructed
> one from Welles's notes? Which is available on DVD?
Both?
>
> Hell, as far as that goes, which Hawks's Big Sleep?
The original
> release or the original, but only recently released
cut? Then again,
> aren't both on the DVD?
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