On this week’s episode, Mike and Steven discuss The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, an impeccable noir film that touches on many of the genre’s hallmark tropes: nihilism, murder, the past, deception, and blackmail. Barbara…
Noir November rolls on with one that’s a bit controversial. Clash By Night, Fritz Lang’s 1952 tale of dissatisfaction and adultery starring Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, and Marilyn Monroe, is often questioned for its noirness….
This week, we continue Physical Media Appreciation Month with a real mind-bender of a film. Christopher Nolan’s Memento from 2000 is an exercise in manipulation, identity, and the reliability of memory. Told both forward and…
Niagara (1953)
- November 18, 2024
- Tagged as: Film Noir, Joseph Cotten, Marilyn Monroe, neo noir, Niagara, November noir
In this week’s episode, we delve into the world of Technicolor noir with 1953’s Niagara. This story of love and betrayal includes a lot of the classic tropes of the noir genre and includes a fantastic early performance from the great Marilyn Monroe.
This week, we kick off November Noir month with one of the genre’s quintessential titles: 1946’s The Postman Always Rings Twice. This tale of desire, betrayal, and fate is one of several films adapted from the writing of James M. Cain that set a standard for everything that came after it.