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
Nightmare Alley: The Musical by Dan Akira Nishimura
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 |