Year of the Month: BLADE RUNNER
Blade Runner is set in November 2019, the same month this article will be posted. …
A Flaw in the Iris: Son of Griff on CHINATOWN’s Hard-Boiled Historicism
Los Angeles is the most beautiful city in the world, when seen at night from…
Year of the Month: D.O.A.
D.O.A. has had an unusual influence on noir. Its dialogue is pedestrian, its story is…
Year of the Month: Jake Gittes on Touch of Evil
“It’s a free country.” “Shut up.” The opening tracking shot may be its most…
Year of the Month: Jake Gittes on The Lineup
“It inspired Bullitt, which is a yawn by comparison.” James Ellroy, DVD commentary for The…
Year of the Month: Son of Griff on Murder by Contract
At the beginning of 1958’s Murder by Contract, we know only two things about Vince…
Year of the Month: Son of Griff on L.A. Confidential
Curtis Hanson’s screen adaptation of James Ellroy’s L.A. Confidential is often called a neo-noir, but…
Year of the Month: Son of Griff on Pitfall
As a genre trafficking in the subversive delights of mystery and intrigue, it seems fitting…
Year of the Month – Ben “Bhammer100” Hammel on Double Indemnity
“They’ve committed a murder and that’s not like taking a trolley ride together where each…
Year of the Month: Jacob Thomas Klemmer on Night of the Hunter
Robert Mitchum’s performance in The Night of the Hunter, as the reverend Harry Powell, flies…