RARA-AVIS: Types of noir (was Re: Pop. 1280)

From: Jacques Debierue ( matrxtech@yahoo.com)
Date: 29 Jul 2007


--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, BaxDeal@... wrote:
>

> if the concept of Original Sin (you are born damned) isn't noir, I
don't know
> what is
>

I knew that sooner or later the Foundations of Noir Controversy was going to go back to Adam and Eve. It is fitting. Now we can truly announce that everything is, was or will be noir.

Speaking of obscure, or at least forgotten, noir(ish) films, the other day I suddenly remembered a slick movie called _Fourteen Hours_.I had to look it up in the IMDB, and it was directed by Hathaway, had some success, apparently. I wonder if it would qualify as noir... Now I have to find a copy of it. I bet the French have reissued it (they reissue an astonishing number of old films, be they A, B, C, ...or Z).

Best,

mrt



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