Noir City Notebook 1

I'm pleased to say that I ended up seeing even more of the Noir City festival than I'd initially planned, last week: ten films noir from the '40s and '50s, some of them exceedingly rare, as well as Robert Altman's 1973 The Long Goodbye. I'd meant to post notes as I went, but better late than never, right? These were my impressions of the first three pictures I saw during the festival:

( Thieves' Highway )

( Woman on the Run )

( The Pitfall )

More Later.

Noir City Notebook 2

The idea of technicolor film noir strikes a lot of people as a contradiction in terms, and, yet, how else to classify these two ...?

( Desert Fury )

( Leave Her To Heaven )

Next: Something really lightweight.

Noir City Notebook 3

99 River Street and I Love Trouble didn't strike me as particularly deep, but they were both vastly entertaining:

( 99 River Street )

( I Love Trouble )

( Pig Noir )

More tomorrow.