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I'be been watching a DVD-R of DESPERATE recorded off Turner Clasic Movies a few years ago. Image quality is very nice. A seriously intense noir that is screaming for DVD release. Hopefully WHV will be able to include it in their next box-set. Or as an individual release. Mann + noir = $.

I'm very disappointed in the MGM DVD of ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW (1959). Turner Classic Movies has aired this Robert Wise noir at 1.85:1. Why then is the DVD full-screen?

A Philip Marlowe festival. Nice 35mm prints: Saturday Noir Matinees | The Cinefamily

The depth and breadth of John Huston's THE ASPHALT JUNGLE continues to astonish me whenever I return to it. The screen play has an emotional range like no other noir. And what a bunch of characters to spend two hours with. I love these people; they're honorable and corrupt, bold and desperate...

What's the status of BOOMERANG, does anyone know? Does Fox plan to release it after all sometime soon? I know some copies got out before the recall. My Fox Noir Collection is painfully incomplete without it. I've been wanting to see it. Should I pay the high price or wait?

rich d, You mis-understand. I'm used to working out dialogue with actors and writers, and I know how the littlest thing can resonate in the biggest way. I'm not suggesting that Casablanca has a hack ending. Far from it. It has the right ending, the best ending, a great ending. It has the most...

Compare Ilsa in Casablanca to Evelyn in Chinatown. They're both guilty as hell, and they both send a man to ruin without having a malicious intent. Perhaps we should broaden our definition of a femme fatale. Perhaps our definition is too narrow if it fails to account for the character.

I just love this remark:

In terms of character, plot and theme, Peckinpah's Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia strikes me as the very definition of film noir. Was there ever a film noir more misunderstood. Does anyone else agree that Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is film noir?