A have a new piece, a book review, published in the last issue of Noir City Sentinel (Summer 2010). The book is David Thomson's "Have You Seen...?": A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films, and my article's main focus is on Thomson's taste for film noir.
This wonderful 53-page issue have many more things to dig, including:
British Noir A Climate of Fatalism by Imogen Sara Smith
A Common Language: American Expatriate Directors in British Noir by Imogen Sara Smith
The Have-Nots in the Sordid Underbelly of British Noir by Guy Savage
The Forgotten World of Bargain-Basement British B-Noirs, 1957–64 by Don Malcolm
Caged: Classic, Not Camp by Alan K. Rode
Walk Softly, Stranger: When the End Undermines the Means by Eddie Muller
Paul Stewart: A Heavyweight Among Heavies by again, Eddie Muller
Elisha Cook Jr.: The King of the Character Actors by Woody Haut
Bernhardt, Litvak, Negulesco: The Forgotten Film Noir Directors by Marc Svetov
The History of the Whistler by Vince Keenan
Hearing Voices: The Varieties of Film Noir Narration by Jake Hinkson
Wilder at Heart: Billy, Willy, and the Great Brotherly Divide by Don Malcolm
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Big Sleep’s Sassiest Dame by Ron Schuler
Life … Replaced by a Fresh Corpse by Ehsan Khoshbakht
And also some notes on:
Dementia, Night Tide, and The Werewolf by Will Viharo
TV Noir: Double Dose of Duryea by Gordon Gates
Lorre & Greenstreet by Steve Eifert
The Killer Inside Me by Will “The Thrill” Viharo
Even Alan K. Rode Interviews Eleanor Parker, exclusively for Sentinel.
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When I was working on that review, I made a list of all noir entries in Thomson's book. Now, I think publishing this index, will help noir scholars for further research.
| 1940 | ||
| The Letter | William Wyler | 1940 |
| The Mortal Storm | Stuart Heissler | 1940 |
| Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock | 1940 |
| They drive by night | Raoul Walsh | 1940 |
| 1941 | ||
| Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | 1941 |
| High Sierra | Raoul Walsh | 1941 |
| Hold back the down | Mitchell Leisen | 1941 |
| Little Foxes | William Wyler | 1941 |
| The Maltese Falcon | John Huston | 1941 |
| Man Hunt | Fritz Lang | 1941 |
| Meet John Doe | Frank Capra | 1941 |
| 1942 | ||
| Cat People | Jacques Tourneur | 1942 |
| The Hard Way | Vincent Sherman | 1942 |
| Ossessione | Luchino Visconti | 1942 |
| 1943 | ||
| Hangmen also die! | Fritz Lang | 1943 |
| Shadow of a doubt | Alfred Hitchcock | 1943 |
| Seventh victim | Mark Robson | 1943 |
| 1944 | ||
| Double Indemnity | Billy Wilder | 1944 |
| Gaslight | George Cukor | 1944 |
| Laura | Otto Preminger | 1944 |
| Ministry of Fear | Fritz Lang | 1944 |
| Phantom Lady | Robert Sodmak | 1944 |
| The Woman in the window | Fritz Lang | 1944 |
| 1945 | ||
| Detour | Edgar Ulmer | 1945 |
| Leave her to heaven | John M. Stahl | 1945 |
| The lost weekend | Billy Wilder | 1945 |
| Mildred pierce | Michael Curtiz | 1945 |
| The picture of Dorian Gray | Albert Lewin | 1945 |
| Scarlet Street | Fritz Lang | 1945 |
| Spellbound | Alfred Hitchcock | 1945 |
| The Strange affair of Uncle Harry | Robert Siodmak | 1945 |
| 1946 | ||
| The Big Sleep | Howard Hawks | 1946 |
| The Chase | Arthur Ripley | 1946 |
| Gilda | Charles Vidor | 1946 |
| Humeresque | Jean Negulesco | 1946 |
| The Killers | Robert Sodmak | 1946 |
| Notorious | Alfred Hitchcock | 1946 |
| The Postman always rings twice | Tay Garnett | 1946 |
| 1947 | ||
| Body & Soul | Robert Rossen | 1947 |
| Brighton Rock | John Boulting | 1947 |
| Crossfire | Edward Dmytryk | 1947 |
| Daisy Kenyon | Otto Preminger | 1947 |
| It always rains on Sunday | Robert Hamer | 1947 |
| Kiss of death | Henry Hathaway | 1947 |
| The Lost moment | Martin GabeL | 1947 |
| Out of the past | Jacques Tourneur | 1947 |
| Pursued | Raoul Walsh | 1947 |
| Quai des orfevers | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 1947 |
| They Made me a fugitive | Alberto Cavalcanti | 1947 |
| 1948 | ||
| Act of violence | Fred Zinnemann | 1948 |
| The Fallen idol | Carol Reed | 1948 |
| Force of Evil | Abraham Polonsky | 1948 |
| Key Largo | John Huston | 1948 |
| Lady from Shanghai | Orson Welles | 1948 |
| The Naked City | Jules Dassin | 1948 |
| Raw Deal | Anthony Mann | 1948 |
| Snake Pit | Anatole Litvak | 1948 |
| 1949 | ||
| A ll the king's men | Robert Rossen | 1949 |
| Caught | Max Ophuls | 1949 |
| Criss Cross | Robert Sodmak | 1949 |
| Portrait Of Jennie | William Dieterle | 1949 |
| The Reckless Moment | Max Ophuls | 1949 |
| They live by night | Nicholas Ray | 1949 |
| Third man | Carol Reed | 1949 |
| White Heat | Raoul Walsh | 1949 |
| 1950 | ||
| The Asphalt Jungle | John Huston | 1950 |
| D. O. A | Rudolph Maté | 1950 |
| Gun Crazy | Joseph H. Lewis | 1950 |
| In a lonely place | Nicholas Ray | 1950 |
| Night and the city | Jules Dassin | 1950 |
| No man of her own | Mitchell Leisen | 1950 |
| Sunset Blvd. | Billy Wilder | 1950 |
| 1951 | ||
| Ace in the hole | Billy Wilder | 1951 |
| M | Joseph Losey | 1951 |
| A Place in the sun | George Stevens | 1951 |
| Prowler | Joseph Losey | 1951 |
| Strangers on a train | Alfred Hitchcock | 1951 |
| 1952 | ||
| Angel Face | Otto Preminger | 1952 |
| 1953 | ||
| Big Heat | Fritz Lang | 1953 |
| Pickup on south street | Sam Fuller | 1953 |
| 1954 | ||
| Beat the devil | John Huston | 1954 |
| Suddenly | Lewis Allen | 1954 |
| 1955 | ||
| The big Combo | Joseph H. Lewis | 1955 |
| Les Diabolique | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 1955 |
| House of Bamboo | Sam Fuller | 1955 |
| Kiss me deadly | Robert Aldrich | 1955 |
| The Man with the golden arm | Otto Preminger | 1955 |
| Mr. Arkadin | Orson Welles | 1955 |
| The Night of the hunter | Charles Laughton | 1955 |
| Riffifi | Jules Dassin | 1955 |
| 1956 | ||
| Bigger than life | Nicholas Ray | 1956 |
| Bob la flombouer | Jean Pierre Melville | 1956 |
| The Killing | Stanley Kubrick | 1956 |
| 1957 | ||
| Baby Face Nelson | Don Siegel | 1957 |
| A Face in the crowd | Elia Kazan | 1957 |
| The Wrong Man | Alfred Hitchcock | 1957 |
| 1958 | ||
| Touch of evil | Orson Welles | 1958 |
| Vertigo | Alfred Hitchcock | 1958 |
| 1959 | ||
| Odds against tomorrow | Robert Wise | 1959 |
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