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3. Film Noir Fest 2024, with James Harrison
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Sergio chats to James Harrison, co-founder of Film Noir UK and director of its first festival, Film Noir Fest 2024. The event will take place in Weston-Super-Mare from 1 to 3 November and this year's theme is Dangerous Divas.
We preview some of the main screenings, which include:
Lee Marvin Centenary
- The Big Heat (Fritz Lang, 1953)
- Point Blank (John Boorman, 1967)
Lauren Bacall Centenary
- To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks, 1944)
- The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946)
- Dark Passage (Delmer Daves, 1947)
- Key Largo (John Huston, 1948)
1950s Mexican Noir
- Aventurera (Adventuress) (1950) starring Ninón Sevilla
- Víctimas del Pecado (Victims of Sin) (Emilio Fernández, 1951) starring Ninón Sevilla
- El Bruto (The Brute) (Luis Buñuel, 1953) starring Katy Jurado
- Llévame en tus Brazos (Take Me in Your Arms) (1954) starring Ninón Sevilla
Dangerous Divas
- Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944) starring Barbara Stanwyck
- Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang, 1945) starring Joan Bennett
- Gilda (Charles Vidor, 1946) starring Rita Hayworth
- Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947) starring Jane Greer
- Don't Bother to Knock (Roy Baker, 1952) starring Marilyn Monroe
- Human Desire (Fritz Lang, 1954) starring Gloria Grahame
- Body Heat (1981) starring Kathleen Turner
- The Last Seduction (John Dahl, 1994) starring Linda Fiorentino
We also touch on the new animated series, Batman: Caped Crusader, Robert Zemeckis' Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and Sergio reminisces about the LaserDisc format.
For full details about the festival and tickets, visit the homepage of Film Noir UK.
Friday Oct 04, 2024
2. Noir Panorama, with Barry Forshaw
Friday Oct 04, 2024
Friday Oct 04, 2024
For the first episode of Tipping My Fedora (TMF), Sergio is joined by crime fiction critic and historian, Barry Forshaw (www.barryforshaw.co.uk). They look at a selection of some of the home video releases on which Barry has worked, spanning 25 years of Film Noir.
Titles discussed, include:
- This Gun for Hire (Frank Tuttle, 1942) starring Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd. Available on Blu-ray from Eureka
- Criss Cross (Robert Siodmak, 1949) featuring Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo and Dan Duryea. Available on Blu-ray from Eureka
- Private Hell 36 (Don Siegel, 1954) starring Ida Lupino (who also produced), Howard Duff and Steve Cochrane. Available on Blu-ray from Imprint
- The Scarface Mob (Phil Karlson, 1959/62) - the film that launched The Untouchables with Robert Stack. Available on Blu-ray from Arrow (US)
- Lady in a Cage (Walter Grauman, 1964) - a shocker in which rich invalid Olivia de Havilland gets stuck in an elevator and James Caan torments her. Available on Blu-ray from Imprint
- Madigan (Don Siegel, 1968) in which Richard Widmark's eponymous cop gets unglued when he meets his big boss, Henry Fonda. Available on Blu-ray from Indicator
We also discuss the politically incorrect 'Parker' novels by Richard Stark (aka Donald Westlake), the fascism of Dirty Harry and Coppola's Godfather trilogy and the charges of "nepo baby" casting that affected the final instalment.
Barry is the editor of the Crime Time online journal and his books include: Crime Fiction: A Reader's Guide, Simenon: The Man, The Books, The Films, and his series on Noir, including: Brit Noir, American Noir, Euro Noir, Nordic Noir and Historical Noir (click here for further details).
** Listen out for an easter egg in which we refer in passing to a film that we will be discussing in the podcast dropping on 18 November.
Thursday Sep 26, 2024
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Thursday Sep 26, 2024
Thursday Sep 26, 2024
What is this thing called Film Noir?
It's time to buckle up your trenchcoat and don your fedora. Join host Sergio Angelini and his guests every 10 days as they uncover the secrets behind 100 years of crime movies, radio dramas, hardboiled fiction and thousands of television episodes.
Launching on 4 October 2024 ...
What is this thing called Film Noir?
Join host Sergio Angelini and his guests every 10 days for the podcast where they uncover the secrets behind 100 years of crime movies, radio dramas, hardboiled fiction and thousands of television episodes.
The cast of characters includes hit men and femmes fatales, flawed cops and psychopathic gangsters, women in peril and cynical private eyes - all of them well over their heads.
All part and parcel of the noir iconography - a black and white world painted in shades of grey.