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December 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Brainiac
November 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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.
November 30, 2025 at 8:55 AM
#NowPlaying Tomorrow Is Again, by The Relict. An undercover Clientele album.
November 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
#NowPlaying Sometimes you have to go back to the well.
November 29, 2025 at 11:11 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.)
November 29, 2025 at 9:56 AM
This one’s on my bedroom wall.
November 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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
Is Jackie Mclean too “name”?
November 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
As for Reagan, he was commonly seen as a moron in the UK at the time, and I don’t think that’s changed. Spitting Image’s The President’s Brain Is Missing casts a long shadow.
November 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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.
November 28, 2025 at 9:34 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.
November 28, 2025 at 8:19 AM
It’s daft as a brush, but I love Hammer’s Dennis Wheatley adaptation, The Lost Continent. Gangsters! Explosives! Mutiny! Tentacle monsters! Lost-in-time conquistadors! Balloons!
November 27, 2025 at 4:56 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.
November 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The thing that’s often overlooked about Lichtenstein is that not only was he a plagiarist, but he was spectacularly inept.
November 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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.
November 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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.”
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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
We’ve lost Udo Kier; but we’ve still got Jude Law.
November 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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.
November 24, 2025 at 9:44 AM
#BOTD Bottoms up for Boris Karloff.
November 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
23. Film Noir actor who stole every scene they were in. #NoirvemberChallenge

Pickup on South Street is about Richard Widmark’s pickpocket, but Thelma Ritter pinched the whole movie.
November 23, 2025 at 9:59 AM
22. Favourite musical performance in a Film Noir. #NoirvemberChallenge

Put the blame on Mame, boys.
November 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
And The Panther Women!
November 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Absolutely loved The Bat Woman (1968)
November 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM