Showing posts with label neo-noir. Show all posts
Showing posts with label neo-noir. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Sam Hawken: Missing

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I really liked Hawken's earlier novel, Juaréz Dance , in all its minimalism. During the last Christmas holiday, I read his later novel...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Time of the Heathen (1962)

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Okay, this is not an overlooked film, it's forgotten to the point of being almost non-existent. I saw the movie on 35 mm film in the scr...
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Tuesday, July 04, 2017

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Small Crimes

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Evan Katz's Small Crimes  (2017) is an excellent neo-noir film after Dave Zeltserman's novel of the same name. Nicolaj Coster-Walda...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Dennis Hauck: Too Late (2016)

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Dennis Hauck's first feature-length film is Too Late that premiered earlier this year. It's an exceptional film, filmed on 35 mm fi...
Wednesday, September 09, 2015

Jason Starr: Twisted City

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Jason Starr has long been one of my favourite writers, and I can't help but fall in love with his plots. I picked up his Twisted City ...
Friday, June 26, 2015

Ten best noir novels of the 21st century

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Eric Beetner has a pretty good list . I've read five (Starr, Phillips, Zeltserman, Rector, Max Phillips), and also two of the ones bubbl...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Tuesday's Overlooked Movie: a few Finnish neo-noirs

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Some weeks ago The Festival of Finnish Cinema showed some Finnish films that can be labeled as neo-noir. This was continuation from the last...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Dan Gilroy: Nightcrawler

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I've been saying this a lot lately: Hollywood handles neonoir pretty well these days. Just look at this list: Prisoners, Mud, The Plac...
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Thursday, January 30, 2014

What did I say about noir in Hollywood in the 2010s?

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Remember what I said about new noir films in Hollywood? See my post on Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners here . I stumbled on a post at Har...
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Thursday, January 16, 2014

Denis Villeneuve: Prisoners

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I just saw this in a movie theater (a press screening) and I was totally overwhelmed! What a movie! The story about two missing kids and ...
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Saturday, August 10, 2013

Negative reviews on e-books?

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I've been reading some stuff on my Kindle, mainly stuff I've picked free from Amazon, new gritty and noirish crime fiction from both...
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Friday, July 26, 2013

Steve Brewer: Bank Job

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I just finished this hardboiled thriller reminiscent of Elmore Leonard's work the other day. It was the first book I read by Steve Br...
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Thursday, June 20, 2013

John Connolly: Dark Hollow

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Dark Hollow was the first book I've ever read by John Connolly , even though I've known about him for quite some time now. I rememb...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Spring Breakers

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Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers is the quintessential neo-noir movie for the 2010's. Why? Because it's a perfect dissection o...
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Tuesday's Overlooked Movie: Femme Fatale (2002)

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Femme Fatale is one of the latest efforts by Brian De Palma, whose films I've generally liked, with some exceptions. This wasn't on...
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Tuesday, April 09, 2013

Sam Hawken: Juaréz Dance

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It's been a long time since I read a book I really wanted to devour. There have been some I've liked, but they haven't been book...
Tuesday, January 08, 2013

Tuesday's Overlooked Movies: Tough Guys Don't Dance

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I just watched Tough Guys Don't Dance from a VHS cassette I found free in a thrift store. I'd seen it when it was new and I remembe...
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Tuesday, December 04, 2012

Tuesday's Overlooked Movie: The Way of the Gun

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Christopher McQuarrie wrote the much-admired The Usual Suspects and much was expected from him after that, but it seems to have taken five...
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Thursday, November 22, 2012

Megan Abbott: The End of Everything, pt. 2

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The End of Everything is a very beautiful book, hauntingly written - it was actually pretty hard to get into the rhythm of Megan Abbott'...
Monday, November 19, 2012

Modern Noir

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Great Pinterest board by Brian Lindenmuth on Modern Noir. Lots of great books and lots of books I haven't read (some I haven't even...