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For your #Noirvember viewing pleasure, here’s another post from the vault. My @crimereads.bsky.social piece from a couple of ago on under appreciated American neo-noirs of the first half of the 1970s. I still think this list is pretty solid.
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10 Underappreciated American Neo-Noirs of the Early 1970s
The domestic blowback of the Vietnam War. The sleaze and corruption of Watergate. The incipient rollback of the counterculture and many gains of the 1960s. Economic recession. The upheaval and unce…
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November 29, 2025 at 10:14 AM
For your #Noirvember viewing pleasure, here’s another post from the vault. My @crimereads.bsky.social piece from a couple of ago on under appreciated American neo-noirs of the first half of the 1970s. I still think this list is pretty solid.
crimereads.com/10-underappr...
crimereads.com/10-underappr...
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November, Hergé.
November 30, 2025 at 8:49 AM
November, Hergé.
30. Best Film Noir ending. #NoirvemberChallenge
Apologies for the spoiler, but it’s hard to avoid with this question.
Dix in the Asphalt Jungle staggering mortally wounded towards his lost horse farm and only reaching it in death is a heartbreaker worthy of Robert Bresson.
Apologies for the spoiler, but it’s hard to avoid with this question.
Dix in the Asphalt Jungle staggering mortally wounded towards his lost horse farm and only reaching it in death is a heartbreaker worthy of Robert Bresson.
November 30, 2025 at 8:55 AM
30. Best Film Noir ending. #NoirvemberChallenge
Apologies for the spoiler, but it’s hard to avoid with this question.
Dix in the Asphalt Jungle staggering mortally wounded towards his lost horse farm and only reaching it in death is a heartbreaker worthy of Robert Bresson.
Apologies for the spoiler, but it’s hard to avoid with this question.
Dix in the Asphalt Jungle staggering mortally wounded towards his lost horse farm and only reaching it in death is a heartbreaker worthy of Robert Bresson.
#NowPlaying Tomorrow Is Again, by The Relict. An undercover Clientele album.
November 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
#NowPlaying Tomorrow Is Again, by The Relict. An undercover Clientele album.
#NowPlaying Sometimes you have to go back to the well.
November 29, 2025 at 11:11 AM
#NowPlaying Sometimes you have to go back to the well.
29. Favourite RKO Film Noir. #NoirvemberChallenge
Of course it’s Out of the Past. @adriandoran.bsky.social will be pleased I got there eventually.
(I love how the shadow makes a little bat out of Jane Greer’s gun.)
Of course it’s Out of the Past. @adriandoran.bsky.social will be pleased I got there eventually.
(I love how the shadow makes a little bat out of Jane Greer’s gun.)
November 29, 2025 at 9:56 AM
29. Favourite RKO Film Noir. #NoirvemberChallenge
Of course it’s Out of the Past. @adriandoran.bsky.social will be pleased I got there eventually.
(I love how the shadow makes a little bat out of Jane Greer’s gun.)
Of course it’s Out of the Past. @adriandoran.bsky.social will be pleased I got there eventually.
(I love how the shadow makes a little bat out of Jane Greer’s gun.)
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I just became aware of this incredibly relatable drawing by John Singer Sargent.
November 29, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I just became aware of this incredibly relatable drawing by John Singer Sargent.
Vote here for Do Anything You Wanna Do youtu.be/rK8pAfhC4Rk?...
November 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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One of the twentieth century’s major authors, without question.
November 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
One of the twentieth century’s major authors, without question.
Took a chance on this in the @ghostboxrecords.bsky.social sale, and it’s a beauty, flitting between 70s and 80s electronica. The Pattern Forms are part Friendly Fires, part Advisory Circle.
November 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Took a chance on this in the @ghostboxrecords.bsky.social sale, and it’s a beauty, flitting between 70s and 80s electronica. The Pattern Forms are part Friendly Fires, part Advisory Circle.
28 Film Noir you watch over and over. #NoirvemberChallenge
I’ve probably seen Double Indemnity more often than any other noir, to the point of being able to recite the script. I even have a poster of it in my living room.
I’ve probably seen Double Indemnity more often than any other noir, to the point of being able to recite the script. I even have a poster of it in my living room.
November 28, 2025 at 9:34 AM
28 Film Noir you watch over and over. #NoirvemberChallenge
I’ve probably seen Double Indemnity more often than any other noir, to the point of being able to recite the script. I even have a poster of it in my living room.
I’ve probably seen Double Indemnity more often than any other noir, to the point of being able to recite the script. I even have a poster of it in my living room.
27. Favourite Film Noir featuring food. #NoirvemberChallenge
Jacques Becker stops the meter in Touchez Pas Au Grisbi and gives us a scene where gangsters Max and Riton tuck into some cheese and crackers in their safe house.
Jacques Becker stops the meter in Touchez Pas Au Grisbi and gives us a scene where gangsters Max and Riton tuck into some cheese and crackers in their safe house.
November 28, 2025 at 8:19 AM
27. Favourite Film Noir featuring food. #NoirvemberChallenge
Jacques Becker stops the meter in Touchez Pas Au Grisbi and gives us a scene where gangsters Max and Riton tuck into some cheese and crackers in their safe house.
Jacques Becker stops the meter in Touchez Pas Au Grisbi and gives us a scene where gangsters Max and Riton tuck into some cheese and crackers in their safe house.
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The Spaceman was a fixture of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in the 1950s.
November 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The Spaceman was a fixture of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in the 1950s.
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Elliott Erwitt, 1988
November 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Elliott Erwitt, 1988
Forty-three Years of Hurt, @adriandoran.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Forty-three Years of Hurt, @adriandoran.bsky.social
A magical evening at Old St Pancras Church with beat nature poets @theclientele.bsky.social. I never clicked before how much Television there is in them.
November 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
A magical evening at Old St Pancras Church with beat nature poets @theclientele.bsky.social. I never clicked before how much Television there is in them.
26. Favourite Neo-Noir. #NoirvemberChallenge
Tchao Pantin was a great discovery this year - a past-his-best garage attendant gets embroiled with gangsters in a nocturnal 80s Paris.
Tchao Pantin was a great discovery this year - a past-his-best garage attendant gets embroiled with gangsters in a nocturnal 80s Paris.
November 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM
26. Favourite Neo-Noir. #NoirvemberChallenge
Tchao Pantin was a great discovery this year - a past-his-best garage attendant gets embroiled with gangsters in a nocturnal 80s Paris.
Tchao Pantin was a great discovery this year - a past-his-best garage attendant gets embroiled with gangsters in a nocturnal 80s Paris.
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On 25 November, @reaky.bsky.social chose Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller, 1953).
November 26, 2025 at 7:52 AM
On 25 November, @reaky.bsky.social chose Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller, 1953).
25. Favourite Film Noir featuring a boat. #NoirvemberChallenge
“You could feel the lust of murder like a wind stinging your eyes, and you could smell the death, reeking up out of the sea.”
“You could feel the lust of murder like a wind stinging your eyes, and you could smell the death, reeking up out of the sea.”
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
25. Favourite Film Noir featuring a boat. #NoirvemberChallenge
“You could feel the lust of murder like a wind stinging your eyes, and you could smell the death, reeking up out of the sea.”
“You could feel the lust of murder like a wind stinging your eyes, and you could smell the death, reeking up out of the sea.”
Leave Her to Heaven often gets classed as a Technicolor noir, but of course it’s actually a horror film dressed as melodrama.
November 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Leave Her to Heaven often gets classed as a Technicolor noir, but of course it’s actually a horror film dressed as melodrama.
We’ve lost Udo Kier; but we’ve still got Jude Law.
November 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
We’ve lost Udo Kier; but we’ve still got Jude Law.
24. Favourite Film Noir poster. #NoirvemberChallenge
French Noir posters are outstanding, and this one by Boris Grisson and Rene Peron for The Big Clock is a particular beauty.
French Noir posters are outstanding, and this one by Boris Grisson and Rene Peron for The Big Clock is a particular beauty.
November 24, 2025 at 9:44 AM
24. Favourite Film Noir poster. #NoirvemberChallenge
French Noir posters are outstanding, and this one by Boris Grisson and Rene Peron for The Big Clock is a particular beauty.
French Noir posters are outstanding, and this one by Boris Grisson and Rene Peron for The Big Clock is a particular beauty.
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Udo Kier - cinema’s fallen angel and an embodiment of the screen’s delicious power to corrupt - is gone. "I would live like the hero of Huysman's A Rebours,” he once told me. “Have no clocks, and hire two nuns to go by my window and pray at 12 o'clock each day."
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Udo Kier - cinema’s fallen angel and an embodiment of the screen’s delicious power to corrupt - is gone. "I would live like the hero of Huysman's A Rebours,” he once told me. “Have no clocks, and hire two nuns to go by my window and pray at 12 o'clock each day."
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