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Issue 18: Noir

November 2014

Letter from the Editor

Chad Perman·
Issue 18: Noir
This month, we’re focusing our attention on the world of noir, and immersing ourselves in its dark waters. Read More
The Third Man | art by Brianna Ashby

Confidence Men

Karina Wolf·
Issue 18: Noir
The Third Man moves with a torque that seems both instinctual and skilled. Read More

Venetian Blinds and Gleaming Silver Pistols

Sheila O'Malley·
Issue 18: Noir
Watching Joan Crawford's Myra Hudson fall in love, and then, shatteringly, out of love, is one of the deep pleasures of Sudden Fear. Read More

Shadows of a Doubt

Michael Ryan·
Issue 18: Noir
When asked by critics to name the overarching theme for Shadow of a Doubt Hitchcock responded: "Love and good order is no defense against evil.” Read More

Sorry About the Blood in Your Mouth. I Wish it Was Mine.

Tarra Martin·
Issue 18: Noir
In Brick, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, like a good young Bogart, presents a steely front. Read More

L.A. Story

Elizabeth Cantwell·
Issue 18: Noir
Watching The Big Sleep, the question bouncing around in my head was not is this a good film, but rather, why is this a good film, and how? Read More

The Loveliest Word in the English Language

Patrick Vickers·
Issue 18: Noir
The Singing Detective depicts convalescence as a realm of mental reflection as well as physical suffering, but it's less about the actual experience of being ill in hospital than it is about being locked inside oneself. Read More

Kiss Me Apocalyptically

Brad Nelson·
Issue 18: Noir
The specific movements of Southland Tales begin to resemble the curious logic of dreams: hurried, recursive, dissolving into themselves. Read More

Singing With the Wolf

Helen McClory·
Issue 18: Noir
The Night of the Hunter is a fairy tale of the Great Depression—of violence, misogyny, drinking, sex, twisted faith, and a grand, drifting river under a heavy sky. Read More

The Nine Lives of the Femme Fatale

Angelica Jade Bastién·
Issue 18: Noir
The femme fatale isn’t obsessed with the destruction of men, that is a byproduct of her true aims: to find a sense of autonomy in a culture that wants to keep her powerless. Read More

You Sure Are a Secret Man

Arielle Greenberg·
Issue 18: Noir
Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947) Read More

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