A Reel Education: Noir

In this week’s episode, we go back to our Robert Mitchum well with a screening of the original Cape Fear!

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In this week’s episode, we watch a film that made a star out of Bob Hoskins: The Long Good Friday!

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In this week’s episode, we get our James Mason on with a viewing of Odd Man Out!

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In this week’s episode, we look at William Friedkin’s 1970s remake of Wages of Fear, Sorcerer!

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In this week’s episode, we take a look at Henri-Georges Clouzot’s masterpiece of tension, Le salaire de la peur, aka The Wages of Fear!

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In this week’s episode, we welcome playwright/actor Kelvin Hatle to our table as we discuss what happens when Fritz Lang directs a western: Rancho Notorious!

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In this week’s episode, we have a grand time talking about all that cake in Fritz Lang’s Ministry of Fear!

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In this week’s episode, we thoroughly enjoy a movie banned personally by Joseph Goebbels: The Testament of Dr. Mabuse!

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In this week’s episode, we take a long look at the only film ever directed by Charles Laughton: Night of the Hunter!

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In this week’s episode, we revisit Samuel Fuller’s filmography with a viewing of The Naked Kiss!

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In this week’s episode, we go through the pros and cons (heh) of Samuel Fuller’s Pickup on South Street!

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In this week’s episode, we thoroughly enjoy Jules Dassin’s heist masterpiece, Rififi!

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On this giddy episode, we visit Robert Aldrich’s groundbreaking Mickey Spillane adaptation, Kiss Me Deadly!

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This week, we head into Nicolas Cage territory with Red Rock West, a mid-1990s noir/western from the folks who later brought us Joy Ride.

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This week, we watch the hard-hitting prototype for every women-in-prison film, Caged.

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This week, we finally watch one of the greatest films noir that ever noired: Sunset Boulevard.

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This week, we watch Where the Sidewalk Ends, Otto Preminger’s steely cop drama.

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This week, we watch the 1950 bank-robbing love story, Gun Crazy, aka Deadly Is the Female!

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This week, we watch Jules Dassin’s London-based masterpiece, Night and the City!

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This week, we watch the amazing noir/French New Wave hybrid, Elevator to the Gallows!

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