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Man Bites Dog is a film that I had been trying to find for a while. A DVD eluded my grasp but I was pleasantly surprised to find the film available on YouTube. You can watch it there if a DVD is not available. I really like the title, “Man Bites Dog”. It’s obscure and peaks the interest of any potential viewers, and it has great relevance to the film, [read...] 
In New York City, 1941 we are introduced to successful playwright Barton Fink (John Turturro) an idealistic artist who is inspired to forge a new kind of theater by telling grand stories about “the common man”, his stock in trade. When Capitol Pictures in Hollywood gets word of his genius, they pay for him to travel out to the West Coast to write a screenplay. Barton is reluctant about entering [read...] 
Writer-Director Sam Fuller often began his movies with indelible imagery that would jump out from the screen and this film has one of the best examples as we witness a call girl named Kelly (Constance Towers) beating up her pimp. As she hits him repeatedly with her shoe he grabs for her wig, pulling it off revealing…a bald head! Kelly, who now looks like a true psycho, knocks him out [read...] 
Arthur Hamilton (John Randolph) is a middle aged banker who has become dissatisfied and lost his way in life. One day he is contacted by an old friend Charlie Evans (Murray Hamilton) he had believed to be dead. Charlie explains that he knows just how he feels and that he can assist him with his problem. The message directs him to “The Company” an organization that helps people restart their [read...] 
An old fashioned sepia toned Paramount Pictures logo at the start of Roman Polanski’s 1974 Neo Noir masterpiece Chinatown acts as a cinematic portal that sends us back into the past. The romantic horns of “Love Theme From Chinatown (The Main Title) by composer Jerry Goldsmith are enchanting as the opening credits roll. Los Angeles, 1937: A blue collar guy named Curly (Burt Young) sees photos of his wife with [read...] 
Before Robert Altman’s Neo Noir The Long Goodbye (1973) which revolves around the character of private detective Philip Marlowe, another film was made called Marlowe (1969) starring James Garner in the title role. If you watch both these films back to back you can clearly see the differences. One is a traditional story while the other is more of a post-modern deconstruction of the hardboiled detective archetype. We are introduced [read...] 
To celebrate the month of Noirvember I wanted to delve into the first wave of film noir and its post-modern form that is every bit as exciting. Neo Noir is the (usually) colorized counterpart to the classical black and white films of the 40s-late 50s. They often feature the same stylized chiaroscuro lighting, twisted storylines and shady characters and range from traditional private eye films (The Long Goodbye, Chinatown) to [read...] 
With news of Ridley Scott planning to re-visit the world of Blade Runner, the web is abuzz with geeking out (both positive and negative). Many are asking the question: why would Ridley want to try to go back and mess with something that’s so unique and has such a strong legacy in the world of film? At this point noone knows for sure if it will be a remake, a [read...] 
A shovel full of Dashiell Hammett, with a touch of Orson Welles, David Lynch and Frank Miller or something. All that looking overly ambitious but not being able to shake off a slight b-movie feel. If that sounds complicated you might be right. However, The Big Bang (imdb) is a surprisingly interesting under-the-radar type film, that starts out like a Kammerspiel and develops into a neo film noir detective story [read...] 
Ridley Scott’s visionary science fiction masterpiece Blade Runner (1982) was based on the Phillip K. Dick novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” When the film was released into theaters, it didn’t do too well at the box office but over the years the film has created a huge cult following and is now considered one of the finest works of cinema ever filmed. Blade Runner shows what cinema is [read...] |
    
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