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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You Sure Are a Secret Man

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