Twelve Shorts for the Shortest Month #2: Lure (2010) February 2, 2020.book: The Hypnotist (2009 trans 2011 Neil Smith) by Lars Kepler February 2, 2020.Twelve Shorts for the Shortest Month #3: SLR (2013) February 3, 2020.Twelve Shorts for the Shortest Month #4: The Woman in the Room (1983) February 4, 2020.Twelve Shorts for the Shortest Month #5: No Chaser (2010) February 5, 2020.Twelve Shorts for the Shortest Month #6: The Lie (1955 TVM) February 6, 2020.Twelve Shorts for the Shortest Month #7: Memoria (2013) February 7, 2020.Twelve Shorts for the Shortest Month #8: Katchem Kate (1912) February 8, 2020.Twelve Shorts for the Shortest Month #9: Mute (2009) February 9, 2020.Twelve Shorts for the Shortest Month #10: Pitch Black Heist (2011) February 10, 2020.Twelve Shorts for the Shortest Month #11: Glove Compartment (2015) February 11, 2020.Twelve Shorts for the Shortest Month #12: The Woman in the Room (2010) February 12, 2020.Une Balle dans le Canon (1958) February 15, 2020.A Short Interview with Elliot Lavine February 21, 2020.A Short by Elliot Lavine: Blind Alley (1981) February 22, 2020.A Short by Elliot Lavine: The Twisted Corridor (1982) February 23, 2020.Miss Fane’s Baby is Stolen (1934) February 29, 2020.The Counterfeit League (1963 TVM) March 4, 2020.On a Volé la Cuisse de Jupiter (1980) March 28, 2020.Movie titles given in UPPER CASE refer to entries in A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Film Noir.Īll original material on this site is copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 by John Grant. The abbreviation vt stands for variant title. There'll also be plenty of movies that are, shall we say, undistinguished - which is not to say they're without at least some points of interest, and certainly isn't to say they're not lots of fun to watch.Īfter posting a bunch of entries to get myself started, I'll be adding new movies to Noirish as and when I watch them. although there'll be some lousy movies covered here. Just because a movie's obscure doesn't mean it's lousy. Many of the movies here are very borderline noir, and some aren't noir at all but have associational interest. That's why this enterprise has the title it has: Noirish. Although the Encyclopedia takes the broadest possible view of film noir, there were some movies that were either too obscure or too tangential to the theme to merit the use of precious page space: 800+ large-format pages - nearly 700,000 words - may seem a lot but, when you're trying to cover in excess of 3,000 movies, you soon learn to appreciate the constraints. Most often, though, the reason was logistic. In some instances, this is just because the movie concerned was released too late for inclusion. The purpose of Noirish is to act as an extension to the Encyclopedia - an annex, if you like - where I can add entries for movies that for one reason or another didn't make it into the printed book. The book has entries on well over 3,000 films noirs and related movies from all over the world, including over 2,000 from the US alone. In mid-October 2013 the publisher Limelight released my book A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Film Noir: The Essential Reference Guide. Of course, I’d watched countless films noirs before then, and liked them a lot- The BLUE DAHLIA (1946) was a particular favorite (have I ever mentioned my longtime crush on Veronica Lake?)-but Continue reading I’d been playing around with various ideas for more books on animation and/or the cinema of the fantastic, but then, for some reason-perhaps just because it came on TCM while I was sitting on the couch, who knows?-I found myself watching Too Late for Tears for the first time. Before that I’d written quite extensively on animation-in fact, I’d not so very long before seen publication of my book Masters of Animation-and on fantasy movies, for The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, edited by John Clute and myself. I first watched the movie sometime in the early 2000s. If there was any single movie or actor that set me off on the long and winding course toward writing A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Film Noir, Too Late for Tears was that movie and Lizabeth Scott was that actor. US / 100 minutes / bw / Hunt Stromberg, UA Dir: Byron Haskin Pr: Hunt Stromberg Scr: Roy Huggins Story: Too Late for Tears (1947, originally serialized in Saturday Evening Post) by Roy Huggins Cine: William Mellor Cast: Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy, Kristine Miller, Barry Kelley, Smoki Whitfield, David Clarke, Billy Halop. Lizabeth Scott triumphs in an underrated noir classic!
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