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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Dave Zeltserman"
<davezelt@c...> wrote:
> Kind of interesting that "Cold Mountain" could be
considered noir.
> Like "Barry Lyndon" (one of Stanley Kubrick's most
underrated
> movies), Cold Mountain seems more about preordained
fate, more
> tragic than dark.
>
>From what I've found, the French really consider
anything that has
darkness in it "noir", no matter what the themes. I was
recently in France and heard "Choke" mentioned as a noir
novel (and saw it reviewed as noir), which is good example of
the broad French definition, because here that excellent book
would never be considered noir...
Terrill: Joe Lansdale was raving to me about Earthquake
Weather--I can't want to read it...
Jeff and Mark--thank you!!!!
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