There’s a certain famous band who would lazily look at a calendar for a local repratory folk theater when they needed to come up with song titles and this gave us classics like In a Lonely Place, Cries and Whispers, Thieves Like Us, Age of Consent etc
― dan selzer, Thursday, 30 May 2024 11:32 (three weeks ago) link
I thought New Order even wrote lyrics using Scrabble tiles
― beamish13, Thursday, 30 May 2024 13:34 (three weeks ago) link
"folk" should read "film" obv.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 30 May 2024 14:07 (three weeks ago) link
Veg, how did you watch Ride the Pink Horse? The only option I've found (short of buying a used copy, which I may just have to do) would be to activate an AppleTV+ trial...
I watched a cool one called Roadblock (1951) a few weeks back. The plot is a little shaky, but the dialogue is terrific; and there's real chemistry btw the leads. It takes an interesting turn from the usual "good guy led astray by femme fatale" setup; and culminates in a terrific chase in the L.A. riverbed (long before the T-Birds and Pink Ladies got there, haha).
― OG Rizzler (morrisp), Saturday, 1 June 2024 20:09 (three weeks ago) link
Internet Archive is the best place - they have a ton of noir not streaming anywhere else. https://archive.org/details/ride-the-pink-horse-1947I just cast it off my phone onto tv via bluetooth.
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 June 2024 20:56 (three weeks ago) link
Pink horse is on TCM every now and again. If u have a dvr and ur not recording noir alley (sats at 1159PM) ur missing out
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 2 June 2024 00:10 (three weeks ago) link
Thanx to both. I do try to keep my eye on TCM generally (that’s how I caught Roadblock).
― OG Rizzler (morrisp), Sunday, 2 June 2024 01:30 (three weeks ago) link
the thing about noir alley is eddie will tell you upfront if the movie is shit or not, which absolutely enhances the experience
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 2 June 2024 01:35 (three weeks ago) link
eddie is a good source
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 2 June 2024 01:38 (three weeks ago) link
He is marvelous in person if you get the chance to catch him at a Noir City festival.
― Jaq, Sunday, 2 June 2024 03:04 (three weeks ago) link
when i was sick recently i worked my way through his list of his favorite 25 noir movies, that was how i came across In A Lonely Place
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 2 June 2024 03:34 (three weeks ago) link
Just looked and In A Lonely Place is in one of the noir anthologies on my shelf. It's called Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s. Might have to pull it out.
From the 1940s, here are Vera Caspary’s famous career girl mystery Laura; Helen Eustis’s intricate campus thriller The Horizontal Man; Dorothy B. Hughes’s In a Lonely Place, the terrifyingly intimate portrait of a serial killer; and Elisabeth Sanxay Holding’s The Blank Wall, in which a wife in wartime is forced to take extreme measures when her family is threatened. The 1950s volume includes Charlotte Armstrong’s Mischief, the nightmarish drama of a child entrusted to a psychotic babysitter; Patricia Highsmith’s brilliant The Blunderer, which tracks the perverse parallel lives of two men driven toward murder; Margaret Millar’s Beast in View, a relentless study in madness; and Dolores Hitchens’s Fools’ Gold, a hard-edged tale of robbery and redemption.
Mischief is AMAZING. It was apparently adapted into a movie called Don't Bother To Knock which I've never seen.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Sunday, 2 June 2024 04:25 (three weeks ago) link
ooh that sounds like a great collection
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 2 June 2024 06:03 (three weeks ago) link