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Laura

Laura

Otto Preminger’s powerful, psycho-dramatic noir returns to the big screen

1 Mar 2012

(PG) 88min This, the first of a run of terrific film noirs that established and cemented Otto Preminger’s reputation as one of the greatest filmmakers to work in Hollywood during the post-war period, is, arguably, the European émigré’s very best.

Bane

Bane

Inspired film noir parody

23 Aug 2009

This one man film noir parody follows the eponymous hired hand Bruce Bane, and features live music and realistic sound effects as a classic tale of bloody revenge is played out with impeccable comic timing and unforgettable attention to detail.

Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome

DVD Box Set Round-up

28 May 2009

Film historian, writer, avant-garde underground filmmaker and occultist Kenneth Anger is one of the more interesting individuals to have emerged from California’s Santa Monica hills in the second half of the 20th century. Anger and his work were…

Gun Crazy

Gun Crazy - Poverty Row

2 Apr 2009

Since I heard that his ‘lovers on the lam’ film noir Gun Crazy was to be revived I have spent a lot of time trying to get hold of Joseph H Lewis’ other films. If ever there was a wonderful filmmaker who deserves his own DVD box set, it is Lewis. My old…

The Stranger

The Stranger

8 May 2008

THRILLER (PG) 95min (Eureka) Having failed to turn a profit on either Citizen Kane or its follow-up The Magnificent Ambersons, Orson Welles directed this relatively conventional film noir for RKO in 1946. In the process, he proved to the studio that…

Ace in the Hole

Ace in the Hole

13 Mar 2008

FILM NOIR (U) 111min (PDX DVD retail) At long last, the late, great Billy Wilder’s very finest – and all too rarely seen – film is available on DVD (if only on region one). Released in 1951, the year after Wilder’s acerbic indictment of the movie…

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