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Tuesday 30 November 2010

Detective Noir

    Some of the lesser known members of the profession that's portrayed more often in Noir/Hardboiled than any other

Angel Heart

Un Flic
         
                                                         Year of the Dragon


Gone Baby Gone


Crimewave


Bad Lieutenant (Ferrara)



Devil in a Blue Dress
                                                   

Sunday 28 November 2010

Another List

Way of the Gun
Talk Radio
Narc
The Funeral
Mystic River
Unlawful Entry
Casino
                                                       The Conversation
Duel
Saturday Night & Sunday Morning
Collateral
In the Cut
The Machinist
Auto Focus
Blink
                                                        Dear America
Bird
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Flame & Citron (Danish)
Lemming (French)
                                                          Hard Eight
The Prophet (French)
Rush
French Connection
Targets
                                                              Harper
White Sands
House of Games
Carnival of Souls
Clockers
                                                Pope of Greenwich Village
The Outfit
Gorky Park
Jackie Brown
Hurricane
The Russia House
Man on Fire
Odessa File
Night of the Generals
Ghost Dog

Saturday 27 November 2010

Obscure/Hard to Find Stuff

                                     
The Conformist

 Here's some harder to get hold of stuff .................

                                       
                                                              The Burglar

The Woman Chaser

Phantom Lady


The Line up

Suture


Seconds

Friends of Eddie Coyle

Criss Cross

Hickey and Boggs

Harikomi (The Stakeout)

Odds Against Tommorow

Barfly

The Sea Wolf

The Lost Son

                                                    Hangover Square

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

Deuxiemme Souffle


Death of a Cyclist

The Loveless

Daybreak

Reign of Terror

Even images of Carl Colpaert's Delusion are difficult to pin down.

Vertigo


       There's very little more we can say about this movie as i described on an earlier post as sitting at the top of a very small genre almost of it's own- Technicolor Classic Noir.
     Accompanied only really by Rear Window, Dial M for Murder, Bad Day at Black Rock and Rope.