A Reel Education: Noir

For this week’s episode, we watch a very early Robert Wise film, The Set-Up!

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For this week’s episode, we visit bombed-out postwar Germany with Berlin Express!

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For this week’s episode, we visit one of the great British noir films, The Third Man!

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For this week’s episode, we conclude our Jimmy Stewart series as we view Hitchcock’s delightful Rear Window!

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For this week’s episode, we continue with our Jimmy Stewart series as we visit Anthony Mann’s noir-western, Winchester ’73!

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For this week’s episode, we launch into a Jimmy Stewart series, starting with Call Northside 777!

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For this week’s episode, we delve into Lawrence Kasdan’s steamy 80’s thriller, Body Heat!

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FINALLY, it’s here! For episode 50, former co-host Windy returns to the podcast for an episode about Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity!

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In this week’s episode, we introduce Tonya to another Henri-Georges Clouzot masterpiece: the truly wicked Diabolique!

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This week, we watch the amazing Rita Hayworth in Gilda!

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This week, we go see Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo in 70mm, and then we have a whole lot to say about it!

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This week, we are joined by geography professor David Tyler McKay for a discussion about Chinatown!

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This week, we are joined by Matthew Kessen for a very rare screening of Desert Fury!

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This week, we close our Marlowe trilogy with Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye!

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This week, we watch Bogey and Bacall in The Big Sleep!

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This week, we watch Dick Powell (!) play Philip Marlowe (!!!) in Murder, My Sweet!

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In this week’s episode, we felt like talking about politics for some reason, so we watched The Manchurian Candidate!

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In this week’s episode, we have MANY THINGS TO SAY about Sweet Smell of Success!

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In this week’s episode, we lighten up a bit (and drunken up a bit) for the holidays, with The Thin Man!

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In this week’s episode, we follow up our screening of the original Cape Fear with Martin Scorsese’s 1991 remake!

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