Good evening gentlemen. I hope you are enjoying Noirvember. Today, I will be watching Scarlet Street. >In one of Fritz Lang's finest American films, Edward G. Robinson stars as as a meek cashier who plunges into a whirlpool of lust, larceny and revenge.I have now caught serious feelings for Joan Bennett. They don't make actresses like they used too.
but will you be watching it... in colour?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9srGe68u4qQ
>>205358502I prefer both Scarlet Street and Human Desire to the Renoir's originals La Chienne and La Bete Humaine. La Chienne and Scarlet Street are more or less equal in quality, but I like the cast of the latter more - Simon in La Chienne is strangely sedated. Human Desire is far superior to La Bete, both in construction and in cast, Gloria Grahame, Glenn Ford, Broderick Crawford are excellent as always.
>>205359368I have committed to the black and white. Both look great.
>>205358502>I have now caught serious feelings for Joan BennettWatch the Woman in the Window, there's a scene where she wears a sheer night shirt under a very sheer night gown and her boobies are on full display.https://images2.imgbox.com/81/9a/DLXTUyXg_o.pnghttps://images2.imgbox.com/13/70/MVCk9R7o_o.png
>>205359653Perfect. Thanks.
>>205359584B&W has a strong crisp centralized look though on rewatch I love noticing the foregrounding and the pictures-within-pictures.
>>205359368Look at the way Chris' arm gesture relaxes when he meets the girl at 8:27, it looks almost like he's got a velvet suit on, and her clear raincoat foreshadows something about the studied nature of her character.
Favorite lesser-known or "B" noir pictures?
>>205361112I never see anyone talk about this one but it's got a great cast and some really memorable side characters. Not quite a true noir imo but who gives a fuck.
Yesterday I watched Sunset Boulevard and Night of the Hunter.
>>205361112https://youtu.be/lhBpPt0NHCY?feature=shared&t=184
>>205361112>Deconstructivist cinema is a film analysis technique that reveals the hidden assumptions and motives of a film's narrative. This technique can also be used to create a complex and subtle meaning by pairing opposite concepts and exploring their relationships.
I really like this shitty B noir. Helps if you know about Richard Dix. I promise you won't see the ending coming.
>>205361787The first "Whistler" picture is not quite as compelling to me but it's worth watching unlike the rest of them. This one got a great Italian poster.
>>205361817That poster is incredible. I recently started reading pulp novels from the 30s, and one of my favorite things about them is the cover.
>>205361895Use that image and search the archive I did a dump of all my Italian posters in a thread in the last couple of days. Here's one I didn't post because it's not a noir but holy shit I love this poster.
>>205361895>pulp novelsI have an entire folder of pulp art too lol.
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>>205361993THE SHADOW KNOWS
>>205362123I dunno what it is but I don't care too much for Robert Ryan. Offhand I can't think of any of his films that I really liked. I'mma go hit up IMDB and see if it jogs my memory about any one in particular.
>>205362217Fuck yeah "The Racket" is kino. Other than that and The Wild Bunch I apparently have no use for Robert Ryan pictures although I've seen many of them. His other notable noirs all fall into categories that don't really do it for me. Specifically the "returning service man" and "boxing picture" categories.
>>205362337ON DANGEROUS GROUND is Kino
>>205361305IMHO Night of the Hunter is Southern Gothic / German Expressionist
>>205363115You're allowed to like things I don't. I've seen everything. My metric for how much I like something is how often I want to re-watch it. I don't think I've ever re-watched On Dangerous Ground.
>>205358502Woman in the window was made earlier and scarlet street is the capsule version of it>>205359653
>>205359653based boobies poster
best femme fatale is Lana Turner in The Postman Always Rings Twice
>>205361112Detour, Out of the Past, The Dark Corner (prime Lucille Ball). Detour is pretty popular but it definitely is a B movie.
>>205361963That is fucking sick.
>>205364751>Out of the Past>lesser knownnigger please. Also those others are pretty well known. You ever heard of pic related? That's the level of shit I'm talking about. I'm still pissed they gave Wyman top billing. She's the fucking sidekick. Based Jerome Cowan is the lead and he kills it.
I wish there were more noir westerns
They named the MC "Shubunka." lol.
>>205364791Another banger with Charles McGraw in it.
>>205365607That movie is absolutely bonkers. I fucking love it.
>>205365607Vincent Price and Robert Mitchum in the same kino?
How do you guys watch your ancient kinos? I have an app called Classic Reel on roku and it has a kind of hit and miss catalog but it is only like 4 bucks a month. There are some precodes but pretty slim pickings.
>>205366104Price totally steals the second half with his giddy bloodlust.
>>205366158Piracy.
>>205366158Anyone know what the Fire Stick equivalent to this is?
>>205366489Nigger just grab everything off of ok.ru. I'm not outright posting links but trust me when I say everyfuckingthing is on ok.ru.
>>205366489I don't think there is one. Classic Reel is some extremely janky in house roku app it seems.
bumpu
Goddamn Scarlet Street was good
>>205371255Edward G. Robinson is incredibly based
what's yall letterboxd acc?
>>205371642That shit is for fags.
>>205372074we used to share letteboxd profiles with fellow anons here back in 2017. He was noirbro and just checked him a few days ago he's a tranny now. Is noir to tranny pipeline actually real bros?
>>205372253It was letterboxed that trooned him out not based noirs.
>>205372253Either you're a fag or you're not. Somebody either has that potential in them always or they don't, in my opinion. Guy was always going to fag out one way or another.Turns out he was watching the dames a little too close.
>>205372397>>205372462the funny thing is, he still watches noir on daily basis based on his diary. idk man maybe there's a pattern here
>>205372605People have been watching these movies for a long time, man. Most of their fans are fucking dead and trooning out is a recent phenom.
>>205372653No he's right milk is clearly making dudes troon out. We gotta ban milk.
>>205358502Got obsessed with this for a while. Dirt cheap on VHS. Dan Duryea + Edward G never had better roles (except key largo)
>>205372253Some ppl watch movies to escape real life, esp if painful. Some just like movies
I watched The Asphalt Jungle last night. I was having trouble deciding what to watch tonight but i think I'll go with Scarlet Street, thanks anons.
