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#NoirvemberChallenge
Film noir you wish more people saw
GUN CRAZY inevitably draws comparisons to BONNIE & CLYDE, but give me GC any day.
#MonthInMyEars
A song that opens with a non-musical sound
This anti-war masterpiece opens with the sound of dialogue before the first blissful note is struck.
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
youtu.be/H-kA3UtBj4M?si=jCrT… via @YouTube
First watch: MONSIEUR HULOT'S HOLIDAY (1953, re-edited 1978)
This film made me feel nostalgic for a place I've never been, a quaint French seaside vacation spot where I could easily spend a week (or month).
It's plotless really, but it's enough just to watch...
#FilmTwitter
1/4
...beachgoers.
I read that the Hôtel de la Plage, featured in the film, is still there in the Saint-Marc-sur-Mer community. I like to imagine the film's characters returning every summer.
MONSIEUR HULOT'S HOLIDAY was the introduction of the Mr. Hulot character, featured...
3/4
#NoirvemberChallenge
A favorite newspaper film #noir
#NowWatching Los Tallos Amargos (The Bitter Stems) a riveting 1956 #FilmNoir from Argentina. Love the way it’s filmed!
Things go terribly wrong when a frustrated newspaper man and shady partner set up a bogus correspondence course in journalism.
#FilmTwitter #noir #ClassicMovies
LET’S DO THIS, AMERICA!!
We can be a better nation despite the efforts of tyrants to suppress our votes and hold us back.
Let’s elect lawmakers who celebrate diversity rather than trying to crush it.
Let’s live up to the ideals of “liberty and justice for all.”
#VoteBlue
#MonthInMyEars is the correct hashtag. Oops!
#MonthInMyEar
Song from an album with an animal on the cover
Kid's Alright was my favorite track from Dutch band Bettie Seveert’s 1992 album Palomine.
youtu.be/EwVxcj0RtqE?si=YJFv… via @YouTube
#MonthInMyEar
Song from an album with an animal on the cover
Kid's Alright was my favorite track from Dutch band Bettie Seveert’s 1992 album Palomine.
youtu.be/EwVxcj0RtqE?si=YJFv… via @YouTube
#NoirvemberChallenge
Favorite noir recently discovered (thanks to #NoirAlley on TCM …
First watch: MOONRISE (1948) is one of the best #NoirAlley features I've seen in quite some time.
Dane Clark (as Danny Hawkins) is perfect as a quick-tempered but sympathetic man haunted and bullied his entire life for the hanging of his father for murder in a ..
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1/4
#MonthInMyEars
Third single from an album
I Zimbra from Talking Heads' jittery, paranoid, brilliant album Fear of Music is a dazzling display of talent and hinted at what was to come on the band's next record, Remain in Light.
youtu.be/qKFn66dzdz0?si=COa8… via @YouTube
#NoirvemberChallenge
Film noir that made you a noir fan.
Hard to remember exactly, but I think it was THE MALTESE FALCON (1941), John Huston's remarkable debut as director with a perfect cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet ...
Rewatching MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969) absolutely confirmed for me that it's one of my top 5 films of all time.
Not a frame is wasted from the time naive Joe Buck (Jon Voight) leaves Texas to become a New York City hustler until he rides a bus to Florida with the...
#FilmTwitter 1/5
... adds to the storyline (see Sylvia Miles as an aging Park Avenue woman Joe Buck encounters).
There's a wild, drug-laced party that epitomizes psychedelic 1969. Acid, anyone? There's subtle, intelligent humor sprinkled throughout (Joe Buck admiring his image in a mirror).
4/5
#MonthInMyEars
A band with a city in the name
The Detroit Cobras rock on this 1998 remake of the 1965 Motown song I'll Keep Holding On, originally recorded by The Marvelettes.
youtu.be/GJ6afIvSEPI?si=xJH2… via @YouTube