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• Noir News

  

  Robert Siodmak's The Killers (1946) screens April 17th at Noir City: HollywoodA presentation of the American Cinematheque and the Film Noir Foundation, Noir... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Mad Men 6

  

  When Mad Men returned to the air waves (and all those second and third screens) last year, nearly 18 months had elapsed since the previous season. Die-hard... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Fashion in Film Blogathon: Shanghai Express (1932)

  

  Clive Brook and Marlene DietrichBetween 1930 and 1935, Josef von Sternberg filmed six wondrous and surreal flights of imagination for Paramount starring... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Beauty in Black and White - the Film Noir Art of Guy Budziak

  

  Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in The Big SleepGuy Budziak is a woodcut artist whose striking high-contrast prints evoke dense and haunting images from... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• A Birthday Tribute to Francoise Dorleac

  

  Francoise Dorleac, older sister of Catherine Deneuve, was born in war-ravaged Paris on the first day of spring, 71 years ago today, March 21, 1942, and lived... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Vintage Years

  

  The notion that 1939 was the greatest of all movie years has been around for so long that it's pretty much an accepted fact these days. Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• CMBA Blogathon: Nightmare Alley (1947)

  

  Woodcut print by Guy BudziakConey Island's first so-called "freak show" opened in 1880, but the heyday of its sideshow attractions began nearly 25 years later... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• 31 Days of Oscar: The Rains Came (1939)

  

  There is no mistaking that drama on a grand scale is about to take place even before the first scene of The Rains Came (1939) begins. Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Sword Play and Noir on a Monday Night

  

  I wasn’t sure, exactly, what the word meant and was curious, so I went to the Internet in search of an answer. There I found the verb swashbuckle defined as... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• A Noir Year Begins...

  

  January 2013 brings, at last, the much-anticipated Noir City XI, San Francisco's 11th annual film noir festival. Presented by the Film Noir Foundation at the... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Halloween Treats

  

  Joan Carroll and Margaret O'Brien in Meet Me in St. LouisThe origins of Halloween go back to the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain (pronounced sowˊ-in). Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• You've Gotta Have Heart...Damn, Giants!

  

  San Francisco's Coit Tower bathed in Giants orange on Sunday night (photo by Luanne Dietz, SF Chronicle)One of the best-known tunes from Damn Yankees (the 1955... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES