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The Superman Motion Picture Anthology Bluray offers solid video and great audio in this excellent Bluray release See individual titles for their synopses. Top 1. 0 film noir Film Alls fair in love and noir Farley Granger and Cathy ODonnell in They Live by Night. Nicholas Rays astonishingly self assured, lyrical directorial debut opens with title cards and lush orchestrations over shots of a boy and a girl in rapturous mutual absorption This boy and this gir were never properly introduced to the world we live in A shriek of horns suddenly obliterates all other sound their shocked faces both turn toward the camera, and the title appears They Live by Night. Meet 2. 3 year old escaped killer Bowie Bowers and his farm girl sweetheart Keechie Mobley Farley Granger and Cathy ODonnell, in an imaginary idyll of peace and contentment that will never come true for them. Bowie, jailed at 1. Having escaped the prison farm with two older bank robbers T Dub and the psychotic Indian Chicamaw One Eye Mobley Jay C Flippen, Howard da Silva he feels loyalty bound to tag along on their crime spree. Guns, dames and hats you cant have a film noir without them, can you Take a look at the Guardian and Observer critics list of the best 10 noirs and youll realise. Slatterys Hurricane A Semidocumentary but not a crime film Slatterys Hurricane 1949 shows some of the features of the semidocumentary crime film. Film Noir Movies Air: The Motion Picture ' title='Film Noir Movies Air: The Motion Picture ' />Keechie is Chicamaws niece, and soon circumstances force them to lam it cross country at the same time as they tremblingly discover love for the first time. Somehow all the planets aligned for Ray, a novice director with an achingly poetic realist vision of Depression era Texas and the determination to implement it wholesale a perfect source novel, Edward Andersons Thieves Like Us and exactly the right combination of producer John Houseman, studio RKO and sympathetic studio head Dore Schary. The result is luminous in its imagery, highly sophisticated in its musical choices the folk song I Know Where Im Going succinctly and repeatedly stresses that they dont know anything at all suffused with romantic fatalism theyll die by night, too you know it from the start and enriched by Rays total identification with his characters doomed trajectory. Rays first masterpiece, and a pinnacle of poetic noir. John Patterson Kiss Me Deadly Photograph Allstar CollectionCinetextUNITEDSportsphoto Ltd. Allstar. Kiss Me Deadly is the black hearted apotheosis of film noir, and a key film of the 5. Eisenhowers America it ends with the detonation of a nuclear device on Malibu beach and, presumably thereafter, the end of the world itself. Robert Aldrichs moral universe is so violently out of kilter that even his opening credits run upside down. His hero, Mike Hammer, is an amoral, proto fascist bedroom detective and 1,0. Kiss Me Deadly opens with a woman, naked under a raincoat, fleeing headlong and barefoot down a highway at night. Rescued by Hammer, then un rescued by her faceless original captors, she dies screaming under gruesome torture with pliers Aldrich was always at the vanguard in his use of violence. Thereafter, Hammer finds himself on a terrifying hunt through the criminal underworld of Los Angeles, from his gleamingly modern office in posh Brentwood to the dilapidated flophouses of Bunker Hill, as he bludgeons, browbeats, blackmails and brutalises his way inch by inch towards a resolution that will destroy everyone and everything, all in search of the elusive Great Whatsit a deadly, molten, much sought after package thats grandfather to the suitcase in Pulp Fiction and the Chevy Nova in Repo Man. Aldrich, a patrician aristocrat and a committed leftist, despised Mickey Spillanes nihilistic worldview and Mike Hammers Cro Magnon brutishness, and gave them the adaptation they deserved. Ralph Meeker, who usually played scumbag saddle tramps and mobsters, bagged the sneering lead role and remains indelibly detestable even today Open a window, says one disgusted cop, as Hammer leaves the room. Surrounded by gargoyles and grotesques, even on his own team he uses his secretary Velma as willing sexual bait Hammer is a cynic who knows everything about human weakness but nothing about the frame hes in. And it all ends with a bang the big bang. JP Double vision. A still from the Coen brothers film Blood Simple, set to be remade by Zhang Yimou as A Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop. Photograph SportsphotoAllstarCinetext Collection. Taking its atmospheric title from a line in Dashiell Hammetts hard boiled novel Red Harvest an allusion never explained, Blood Simple is perhaps the Coen brothers most straightforward movie, even though it is, ironically, not at all simple. In a manner that would come to be their stock in trade, the film is a cacophony of cross purposes, in some ways a rehearsal for their breakout effort Fargo, which also depicts a nefarious plan gone wrong. It also marks the use of literary genre elements in the real world, a formula that would later be refined by Quentin Tarantino. As in so much film noir, the crux of the story is a case of cherchez la femme. In this case la femme is Abby Marty Frances Mc. Dormand, wife of Texas bar owner Julian Dan Hedaya. Strawberry Shortcake: Spring For Strawberry Shortcake Movie Dvd Quality. Julian suspects Abby of having an affair with one of his staff, and when private eye Loren Visser M Emmet Walsh confirms this to be the case, Julian sets a murder plan in motion. For most directors this would be enough, but the Coens embrace the full on complications of the genre to create a genuine sense of an easy crime spiralling out of control. One of the first films to cement the nascent Sundance film festivals reputation, Blood Simple isnt so much neo noir as neo neo noir, using postmodern flourishes that still seem bold today. The most vivid is Walsh as Visser, presented more like a cold blooded Universal Studios monster than a gumshoe, and the non naturalistic lighting is often at odds with noir tradition, with the brothers allowing brilliant shafts of bright light to puncture the neon lit dark. Best of all is the use of the Four Tops Its the Same Old Song as a motif a neat touch that expresses genre familiarity with affection rather than cynicism. Damon Wise Floored plan. Lift to the Scaffold. Photograph Kobal Collection. Louis Malles first fiction feature, based on Noel Calefs 1. It qualifies as film noir for its appropriation of US postwar cinema in its tale of lovers gone bad, but also heralds the imminent arrival of the French new wave. The director was in his mid 2. Perhaps that explains why his film is such a melting pot of influences, drawing not only on Hitchcock but also the Master of Suspenses overseas admirers, including Henri Georges Clouzot and his Les Diaboliques. As in that film, the story concerns a conspiracy to murder. Ex Foreign Legion soldier Julien Tavernier Maurice Ronet, a veteran of French military misadventures in Algeria and Indochina, is planning to kill his boss, who is also his lovers husband. On paper, the plan is seamless Tavernier secures his alibis and enters his victims office unseen, by means of a rope but things soon get messy. On returning to the crime scene to retrieve a key piece of evidence, Tavernier finds himself trapped in the elevator, leaving his car parked outside with the keys in the ignition. Although its elements point towards nailbiting tension, this isnt so much what Lift to the Scaffold is about it draws more on the blanket fatalism of film noir rather than the savage irony so often associated with the genre. Key to this is Jeanne Moreau as Taverniers lover, Florence in the films signature sequence her man fails to turn up, so she walks the streets trying vainly to find him. Filmed on the fly without professional lighting, accompanied only by Miles Daviss brilliant, melancholy score, these few minutes capture the bleak and beautiful essence of Malles film. DW The Third Man, a celluloid masterpiece Photograph LONDON FILMS. One of the amazing things about The Third Man, Steven Soderbergh once wrote, is that it really is a great film, in spite of all the people who say its a great film. Hes right. Its one of the greatest, in fact a witty, elegantly shot and steadfastly compassionate thriller suffused with the dreadful melancholia of the finest noir.