Re: RARA-AVIS: "The Grifters" is noir.

From: Ivan Van Laningham ( ivanlan@pauahtun.org)
Date: 15 Jul 2004


Hi All-- This has nothing to do with "The Grifters" and only something to do with noir. Visit

http://www.chank.com/freefonts.php

Where you'll see that one of the free fonts available is "Cafe Noir."

Metta, Ivan

Mark Sullivan wrote:
>
> Jack wrote:
>
> '"The Big Clock" with Ray Miland, although "film noir" is not noir in
> content because of the happy ending. Neither is "The Maltese Falcon" . .
> .'
>
> SPOILER FOR ANYONE UNFORTUNATE ENOUGH NOT TO HAVE READ OR SEEN MALTESE
> FALCON
>
> Jack, do you really think of Falcon as having a happy ending? While not
> really doomed, it's bittersweet at best -- Spade has just chosen duty
> over love (granted, a screwed up love that would have led to doomed noir
> if he had pursued it -- as a matter of fact, there's a book, what
> happens after a PI runs away with the femme fatale he was supposed to
> turn over) and sits in his office hiding from Archer's widow.
>
> Mark
>
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