Articles tagged "noir"

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Film DVD Review

Chinatown (Centennial Collection)

by Shaun Huston

[18.Nov.09] :. Despite bringing film noir into the daylight and into color, this is among the darkest of Southern California tales.

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Books Review

Boston Noir by Dennis Lehane, Ed.

by Michael Patrick Brady

[16.Nov.09] :. This anthology is a lot like the city it aims to depict: occasionally impressive, at times insincere, and very proud of its quirks and foibles.

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Column: Retro Remote

Pete Kelly’s Blues

by Kit MacFarlane

[20.Oct.09] :. Jack Webb's glum radio series 'Pete Kelly's Blues' is a sigh of a tribute to the roaring '20s, a melancholic parade of blistering jazz and the pointlessness of its own nostalgia.

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Books Review

A Nail Through the Heart by Timothy Hallinan

by Chris McCann

[25.Jun.07] :. A Nail Through the Heart can be read as an anti-noir, eschewing the taciturn, solitary detective for a man whose only desire is to connect.

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Books Review

Wall Street Noir by Peter Spiegelman [Editor]

by Michael Antman

[30.May.07] :. For desperate acts, psychosexual kinks, and a pervasive sense of fatalism, there are better places to look than the office of a CFO.

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Books Review

The Yiddish Policemens Union by Michael Chabon

by Connie Ogle [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[11.May.07] :. Yiddish detective tracks a killer across Alaska in Michael Chabon's brilliantly conceived noir history.

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Anat Cohen: Poetica / Noir

by Matt Cibula

[16.Apr.07] :. The time was right for Cohen to make a big statement. Instead, she made two.