'Underneath'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I understood that Roman Noir preceded Film Noir as a coinage, because American hard-boiled novelists were packaged in black covered books in France.
True, but not by much. The term film noir was first used in 1946, partly for the way they were shot, but mostly due to coming on the tail of the Série noire novels, which Gallimard started publishing in 1945.
Good to know the dissertation's good for something...
In your face, Jasper Johns Nutty!
In the same way that Italian thrillers became known as Giallo - which means yellow, and refers to the yellow covers of the source novels.
That bring to mind that I was just reading (in VIDEO WATCHDOG) about a German variation called Krimis, which was a series of crime films in the 60s based on Edgar Wallace novels (often extremely loosely). They're almost unknown outside of Germany, and share several characteristics with the Giallos (decadent characters, violent murders by elaborately masked people, etc.), and are mostly set (ostensibly if not recognizably) in England. Klaus Kinski got his start in those, usually playing a depraved red herring/victim.
Though I guess that is more of a discussion for film, not literary.
"MWOMP WOMP WOMP, See?"
Ha! This is the tiniest Venn diagram of humor in the world.
(It always makes me sad how little Edward G. Robinson is remembered by the filmgoing public. It's possibly helped along by the fact that the first film I ever saw him in was Double Indemnity, where he's the conscience of the piece.)
It's possibly helped along by the fact that the first film I ever saw him in was Double Indemnity, where he's the conscience of the piece
True that. I'd seen plenty of parodies of him (most notably in Warner Brothers cartoons), but DI was the first actual film I saw him in. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen one of his gangster roles (the only other ones I can recall are THE STRANGER, where he's a nazi-hunter, and SOYLENT GREEN).
This is in contrast to Cagney (who got to play good guys more frequently then Edward G.), where WHITE HEAT was the first film I saw him in. That'll make a lasting impression.
That bring to mind that I was just reading (in VIDEO WATCHDOG) about a German variation called Krimis, which was a series of crime films in the 60s based on Edgar Wallace novels (often extremely loosely). They're almost unknown outside of Germany, and share several characteristics with the Giallos (decadent characters, violent murders by elaborately masked people, etc.), and are mostly set (ostensibly if not recognizably) in England. Klaus Kinski got his start in those, usually playing a depraved red herring/victim.
I've seen Krimi! They're pretty cool actually, and Lux Interiors listed his five favorite in the second Catalog of Cool.
It always makes me sad how little Edward G. Robinson is remembered by the filmgoing public.
But he'll always be known by those of us who watch The Ten Commandments at Eastertime: "Where's your Moses nooooowww?"
I don't know what the first Edward G. Robinson movie I saw was, but the one that always sticks out in my mind was Tales of Manhattan.
The movie's kind of uneven and tends to be a little maudlin and manipulative, but man, he's great in it.
He's really good in The Sea Wolf - and so, so evil.