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     Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.173.198 |
BBC4 are having a Film Noir weekend over 22nd & 23rd - of note, one of the films being shown is BUILD MY GALLOWS HIGH (aka OUT OF THE PAST), on Sunday evening at 9pm. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039689/ If you've never seen it and have access to BBC4, make a point of seeing it. There's also a documentary and several other films, but this is the highlight as far as I'm concerned. | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.72.14.113 |
One of my favourite Noirs too by one of my favourite directors - the great Jacques Tourneur (genius). I always make a point of scanning the TV listings for any daytime Noirs showing and tape them for when they should really be watched, the wee small hours. | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
Thanks for the head-up on this Mick. I shall be setting the digi-box for this. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.253.123 |
"Film noir" I think of as exclusively an American genre, but the Brits I know made a slew of films that would fall under that broad category. So what are some of the better ones?... (I recently saw CRIME WAVE [1954] for the first time, a relatively minor piece, also-starring Sterling Hayden at his usual bullying best - minor or not, a good 'un!) | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.72.14.113 |
There was a whole sub-genre known as Euro Noir. Blacklisted American director Jules Dassin was a master of the form and made many of his best films in Europe. Then of course you also had Carol Reed's British classics of the genre. My fav Brit Noir has to be 'Crime And The City' though starring an American, Richard Widmark, in for me his greatest role (including the brilliant 'Kiss Of Death') and directed by Dassin again... London has never been more seedy on screen. | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.72.14.113 |
Doh... 'Night And The City' I meant. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.173.198 |
NIGHT AND THE CITY is very good, and if you buy the UK DVD release, you get the same contents as the Criterion one without the hefty price. | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.4.20.22 |
Have to thank you for drawing this to my attention Mick. I was for having a quiet weekend in anyway and BBC4 has just sorted my entertainment for the next 2 days! Some marvellous movies: 'The Lady From Shanghai', 'Force Of Evil' & 'Stranger On The Third Floor' I've never actually seen while 'Farewell My Lovely', 'The Big Combo' & 'Build My Gallows High' are endlessly rewatchable. Great stuff!  |