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Le Samouraï
I remember seeing a quote from one of my favourite directors, Jim Jarmusch. He is an inspiration of mine and there was an article with him released back in 2004. The article was about his golden rules of filmmaking. They included: Rule #1: There are no rules. There are as many ways to make a […]
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Chinatown
”Forget it Jake. It’s Chinatown.” Those immortal words have been parodied to death over the years and if you haven’t seen Chinatown, you would have heard those lines spoofed in another film or TV show. Once you see what has just occurred and those five words are uttered by Joe Mantell who played Jake Gittes’s […]
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Mitchum is Marlowe in Chandler’s “Farewell, My Lovely” (1975)
Robert Mitchum was a high-mileage/hard-miles 57 when he took on Raymond Chandler’s iconic private eye Philip Marlowe in 1975’s “Farewell, My Lovely,” a character immortalized by Bogie in “The Big Sleep” in a story of that had been filmed twice before, in the film noir-mad 1940s. He wasn’t too old to take the part, but […]
Classic Film Review: Mitchum is Marlowe in Chandler’s “Farewell, My Lovely” (1975)
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THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN
They called them “B-Movies:” genre films (westerns, noir, horror, sci-fi, etc.) made on shoestring budgets with leads played by actors, not stars; directors who were journeymen, not auteurs. The 1950s were their heyday, and they played great on a rainy Saturday afternoon. They looked disposable then but watching them now is like discovering a cultural […]
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The Mysterious Mr. Nicholson
There’s been a murder! Another one? Yes, indeed. It would seem that during the 1940s and the 1950s, people were just dropping left and right. Mysterious murders were just a part of everyday life and you can be sure that every murder would bring with it an effort would be made to frame an innocent […]
30 More Days of Noir #11: The Mysterious Mr. Nicholson (dir by Oswald Mitchell)
