Film Noir File: Here’s looking at you, Bogie
By Film Noir Blonde and Mike Wilmington The Noir File is FNB’s guide to classic film noir, neo-noir and pre-noir from the schedule of Turner Classic Movies (TCM), which broadcasts them uncut and...
View ArticleFilm noir delights in the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema
“Another Dawn” will play Saturday night at the LA County Museum of Art. I am greatly looking forward to seeing the LA County Museum of Art (LACMA) exhibition and film program Under the Mexican Sky:...
View ArticleStylish sleeper ‘I Wake Up Screaming’ deserves a little love
I Wake Up Screaming/1941/Twentieth Century-Fox/82 min. In the Neglected Works of Noir department, “I Wake Up Screaming” from 1941 is just crying out for attention. Director H. Bruce Humberstone made a...
View ArticleThere’s only one ‘Maltese Falcon’ and this is it
The Maltese Falcon/1941/Warner Bros./100 min. “The Maltese Falcon,” a spectacularly entertaining and iconic crime film, holds the claim to many firsts. It’s a remarkable directorial debut by John...
View ArticleThe Film Noir File: Huston helms, Bogarts stars in ‘Falcon’ et al
By Film Noir Blonde and Mike Wilmington The Film Noir File is FNB’s guide to classic film noir, neo-noir and pre-noir from the schedule of Turner Classic Movies (TCM), which broadcasts them uncut and...
View ArticleThe Film Noir File: Bogie is at the top in ‘High Sierra’
By Film Noir Blonde and Mike Wilmington The Noir File is FNB’s guide to classic film noir, neo-noir and pre-noir on Cable TV. All movies below are from the schedule of Turner Classic Movies (TCM),...
View ArticleThe Film Noir File: ‘To Have and Have Not’ and ‘Key Largo’ showcase noir’s...
By Film Noir Blonde and Mike Wilmington The Film Noir File is FNB’s guide to classic film noir, neo-noir and pre-noir on Turner Classic Movies (TCM). All movies below are from the schedule of TCM,...
View ArticleFilm Noir File: John Huston’s ‘The Maltese Falcon’ is the stuff that dreams...
By Film Noir Blonde and Mike Wilmington The Film Noir File is FNB’s guide to classic film noir, neo-noir and pre-noir on Turner Classic Movies (TCM). All movies below are from the schedule of TCM,...
View Article‘Falcon’ still flies high at age 75
‘The Maltese Falcon,’ directed by John Huston and arguably the first film noir, turns 75 this year. To honor that milestone, the movie will screen in select cities nationwide on Sunday, Feb. 21, and...
View ArticleStart summer with a chilling classic …
Chinatown/1974/Paramount/130 min. By Michael Wilmington Noah Cross (John Huston) tells J.J. Gittes (Jack Nicholson) what’s what. “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.” Those are the last words, chilling,...
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