Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir
Each film noir weaves its own yarn of longing, corruption, and fateful decisions. In each episode of this podcast series, Clute and Edwards investigate one noir or neo-noir in detail. Following various threads of inquiry, they attempt to unravel the vast canvas of noir. More info at www.noircast.net
- Update frequency
- every 19 days
- Average duration
- 39 minutes
- Episodes
- 63
- Years Active
- 2004 - 2015
Episode 16: The Grifters
This is perhaps the most noir of all neo-noirs. Never has 1990 Los Angeles looked and sounded so much like 1950 Los Angeles. While Stephen Frears sets Jim Thompson's source novel at the time the film…
00:29:43 |
Wed 01 Feb 2006
Episode 15: The Lady From Shanghai
Every Orson Welles film demonstrates the great director's ability to work with and against filmic tradition. "The Lady from Shanghai" is a compendium of noir conventions: it tells a tale of post-war …
00:38:40 |
Sun 15 Jan 2006
Episode 14: Notorious
The question of whether Hitchcock is a noir director remains open. What is certain is that by 1946 noir aesthetics began to inflect every genre from the Holiday picture ("It's a Wonderful Life") to t…
00:36:40 |
Sun 01 Jan 2006
Episode 13: It's a Wonderful Life
With "It's A Wonderful Life" Capra launched his independent studio, Liberty Films. He thought he had a guaranteed box office winner, with stars Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed, and the power-to-the-peo…
00:39:34 |
Thu 15 Dec 2005
Episode 12: Rififi
Hollywood began tearing itself apart with accusations of Communism in 1947, and in 1949 American director Jules Dassin was blacklisted. In order to pursue his craft he fled to France, where he cobbl…
00:46:43 |
Thu 01 Dec 2005
Episode 11: The Big Sleep and The Big Lebowski
When "The Big Lebowski" was released in 1998, Ethan and Joel Coen claimed its "episodic" narrative structure found its source in the work of Raymond Chandler. In this super-sized double-feature podc…
01:20:16 |
Tue 15 Nov 2005
Episode 10: The Killers
While Robert Siodmak's noir triumph "Ernest Hemingway's 'The Killers'" flaunts its literary bloodlines, Hemingway's 1927 short story is little more than a pretext. The film actually investigates the…
00:31:33 |
Tue 01 Nov 2005
Episode 9: Laura
Otto Preminger's 1944 "Laura" marks an important transition in film history. Visually it harks back to Hollywood's Golden Era, flooding with light elaborate sets and the glamorous stars they hold--bu…
00:30:44 |
Fri 14 Oct 2005
Episode 8: The Asphalt Jungle
Shannon and Richard argue that John Huston's directorial evolution from "The Maltese Falcon" to the prototype heist film "The Asphalt Jungle" provides a blueprint of the evolution of film noir from t…
00:29:30 |
Sat 01 Oct 2005
Episode 7: The Hitch-Hiker
One of the only female directors of Hollywood's Golden Age, no one could coax more from actors or tell a story with greater economy than Ida Lupino. Her 1953 gem the Hitch-Hiker hooks you with the op…
00:29:20 |
Thu 15 Sep 2005
Episode 6: Blade Runner
Out of the past and straight into the future, Ridley Scott blends film noir and science fiction in "Blade Runner." Richard and Shannon query this unusual mix, and ask how a style that is often as out…
00:24:31 |
Thu 01 Sep 2005
Episode 5: The Maltese Falcon
This episode examines the classic "The Maltese Falcon." Based on a book by Dashiell Hammett, starring Humphrey Bogart, directed by John Huston, it is generally considered the first "film noir." As …
00:31:22 |
Mon 15 Aug 2005
Episode 4: The Third Man
As they discuss "The Third Man," starring Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten, Shannon and Richard debate whether film noir is a "style" or a "genre." As a style many of its visual features can be adapte…
00:28:23 |
Mon 01 Aug 2005
Episode 3: Batman Begins
Episode three of this podcast series investigates Christopher Nolan's blockbuster "Batman Begins" in relation to the visual and narrative conventions of film noir. Richard and Shannon ask what it me…
00:29:00 |
Fri 15 Jul 2005
Episode 2: Double Indemnity
In this podcast, Clute and Edwards investigate Billy Wilder's 1944 noir classic "Double Indemnity." They place the film in its historic context and query its unusual success; it was nominated for se…
00:28:58 |
Sat 09 Jul 2005
Episode 1: Out of the Past
In this premier episode, Shannon Clute and Richard Edwards discuss Jacques Tourneur's noir masterpiece "Out of the Past." They explain why it is the first film they choose for their continuing serie…
00:28:06 |
Sat 02 Jul 2005
Noircast Special 4: Q and A with Shannon Clute and Jared Case
On January 20, 2011 Clute introduced the film Mildred Pierce at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, as part of their Noir Series. His talk was preceded by a question and answer session w…
00:58:43 |
Sat 01 Jan 2005
Noircon 2008: The Official Podcast Day 2: Editors and Publishers Tackle Noir
Clute and Edwards discuss the editing and publishing of noir fiction with three members of this Day 2 Noircon panel: Charles Ardai, Stacia Decker, and Michael Langnas. Charles Ardai is the editor and…
00:17:37 |
Thu 01 Jan 2004
Noircon 2008: The Official Podcast Day 2: George Lippard and Philly Noir
Philadelphia noir is the focus of two panels at Noircon 2008. The first panel presents the historical moment, cultural milieu and writings of the 19th century Philly writer George Lippard. Ed Petit a…
00:42:18 |
Thu 01 Jan 2004
Noircon 2008: The Official Podcast Day One
Day One: Opening Night. Noircon 2008 opens at the Society Hill Playhouse in Philadelphia, PA. Clute and Edwards kick off this special podcast mini-series coverage with short interviews from the openi…
00:21:30 |
Thu 01 Jan 2004
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