| October 12, 2009 | Noir Is the Poetry of Failure |
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Reading David Lehman's The Murder Mystery, Film Noir, and Poetry Loved what he wrote: Noir is the flip side of Horatio Alger. It is the product of desperation, the recurrent dream of failure, a catalogue of the many things that can go wrong and do go wrong when lust and greed overlap. It is in this regard that noir could be said to extend a tradition of American literature, which 'from Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, and Dickinson through Crane, Dreiser, and Faulkner has been obsessed with crime, guilt, deception, deceit, nightmare, mystery, murder, and the disintegrating psyche.' Labels: film, movie, noir, poetry posted by Jess Barron @ 8:41 PM 
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| July 22, 2002 | Deco Win and Film Noir |
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On Friday night a bunch of us went to see Alfred Hitchcock's "Notorious" at Oakland's Paramount Theatre. The Paramount is absolutely gorgeous, one of the nicest art deco theaters in the country. But we weren't totally prepared for the magic of Deco-Win. All this for $5. Need to see more? Allyson has comments and more pics. Labels: allyson, film, movie, pics posted by Jess Barron @ 10:53 PM
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