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RE: My Top Film Noir - 22/1/2010 10:23:37 AM   
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Very very close.

Would you have got it if I'd said another of my favourite film of his stars 3 men whose TV work helped define 60s TV? And one for 70s TV? And Mr Doolittle too?

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RE: My Top Film Noir - 22/1/2010 10:39:55 AM   
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 I know the film you mean with the defining 60s tv comment, but I think that would have been a far more difficult clue. I was close at least.

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RE: My Top Film Noir - 22/1/2010 10:52:41 AM   
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I deleted the first clue. Let the second mess with people's heads

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RE: My Top Film Noir - 22/1/2010 11:37:09 AM   
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 Boo for spoilers. I don't think I dare read the Scarlet Street review until I've seen the Renoir film.

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RE: My Top Film Noir - 22/1/2010 11:52:52 AM   
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If you've seen Scarlet Street than, technically, there isn't really that much spoiled as the story is effectively the same - just different slants, different nuances. I just thought I'd be as discrete as possible just in case. But the basic story and timeline? You won't be surprised.

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RE: My Top Film Noir - 22/1/2010 12:35:54 PM   
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 Excellent, I'll have a read now then.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
Good post by me this one. Definitely worth reading. Sorry if you've bothered.

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RE: My Top Film Noir - 22/1/2010 2:31:41 PM   
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I love Scarlet Street, I wrote a section of my dissertation on it.  I enjoy double Indemnity more, but SS is a better film.  Edward G. Robinson really was one of the best actors of the period.

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RE: My Top Film Noir - 22/1/2010 3:14:22 PM   
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I wouldn't quite agree on Double Indemnity - as you'll soon see (well, I say soon. By 2012 at the latest) but I certainly do on Edward G

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RE: My Top Film Noir - 22/1/2010 5:14:35 PM   
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Is the next film by the most awesome director ever?

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RE: My Top Film Noir - 22/1/2010 5:16:29 PM   
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Um. By your reckoning? I somehow doubt it!

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RE: My Top Film Noir - 22/1/2010 5:18:23 PM   
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Well, Leone didn't make any noir, so I mean the second most awesome then

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RE: My Top Film Noir - 22/1/2010 5:19:28 PM   
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Who's your second most awesome?

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RE: My Top Film Noir - 22/1/2010 5:20:48 PM   
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RE: My Top Film Noir - 22/1/2010 5:21:32 PM   
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RE: My Top Film Noir - 22/1/2010 5:22:34 PM   
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I think, Miles, it is possible you've picked up on the part of the clue that refers to a film a little higher up? Possibly?

Rick - imagine giving away the top end of your list so soon!

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RE: My Top Film Noir - 22/1/2010 5:24:19 PM   
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I think, Miles, it is possible you've picked up on the part of the clue that refers to a film a little higher up? Possibly?

Rick - imagine giving away the top end of your list so soon!

I'll be pretty surprised if people can't guess my entire top 20. Beyond the Valley of the Ultra Vixens aside.

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RE: My Top Film Noir - 22/1/2010 5:26:11 PM   
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Even those that don't must find it helpful when you tell us which reviews have been written

I don't know what we're going to do round here when you and Rawlinson finish and everyone gets bored of posting their decade lists.

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RE: My Top Film Noir - 22/1/2010 5:34:23 PM   
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Even those that don't must find it helpful when you tell us which reviews have been written

I don't know what we're going to do round here when you and Rawlinson finish and everyone gets bored of posting their decade lists.

Cheer?
 
In fairness, that doesn't apply to Rawl's list, which is unstintingly good. Or the decade lists.
 
I suppose you've twigged that Robots is at #2, then?

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RE: My Top Film Noir - 22/1/2010 5:43:00 PM   
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I don't know what we're going to do round here when you and Rawlinson finish and everyone gets bored of posting their decade lists.
I have an idea, which I will not disclose
And if the film I had in mind is higher, all the better!

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RE: My Top Film Noir - 23/1/2010 2:03:58 AM   
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Russ Meyer.


Meyer ftw.

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I'll be pretty surprised if people can't guess my entire top 20. Beyond the Valley of the Ultra Vixens aside.


Unless you've changed the order of the list you sent for the top 1000 poll, I can guess your top 20.  And I won't spit venom at a certain entry either. Promise. Your list has inspired me to track down the films by a certain director who I hadn't seen much of in the past. Really good stuff.

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I don't know what we're going to do round here when you and Rawlinson finish and everyone gets bored of posting their decade lists.


You'll be starting your top 300.

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In fairness, that doesn't apply to Rawl's list, which is unstintingly good.


Except for all the entries Elab doesn't comment on.  I noticed you were silent about Shadows, btw, E'.

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RE: My Top Film Noir - 23/1/2010 10:40:48 AM   
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I'm pretty sure I included it in my general slur on Cassavettes upthread though.

Is it too soon to say which of Rick's directors intrigued you?

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RE: My Top Film Noir - 23/1/2010 12:17:36 PM   
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 Jennings, I hadn't seen a great deal by him, but his work really is amazing.

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RE: My Top Film Noir - 29/1/2010 12:48:15 PM   
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Jennings, I hadn't seen a great deal by him, but his work really is amazing.

Cheers for that, and thanks for the other kind comments. I've just penned the review for that film, incidentally, and the Huston one you like...

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RE: My Top Film Noir - 16/2/2010 4:07:48 PM   
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For those who can get satellite channels - there is a channel called Showcase - 216 on Sky - which seems to be showing Ulmer's Detour tonight at 10pm. Not a film you'll often see turning up on British TV.

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RE: My Top Film Noir - 16/2/2010 4:13:05 PM   
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 Does this mean updating will take longer again?

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RE: My Top Film Noir - 16/2/2010 4:21:23 PM   
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Well, I guess everyone could promise not to watch it.

The next entry is imminent. Or slightly more imminent than I promised it was imminent last time. And on that note of my talent for punctuality, no-one mention the performance list to Swords, please.

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RE: My Top Film Noir - 16/2/2010 5:08:21 PM   
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Well, I guess everyone could promise not to watch it.

The next entry is imminent. Or slightly more imminent than I promised it was imminent last time.


 
"My brother is too kind. He was already eminent, while my eminence was merely imminent. "

Detour's on, but nobody watch it, ok?

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RE: My Top Film Noir - 16/2/2010 5:24:56 PM   
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Detour's on, but nobody watch it, ok?


Im fine with that. Considering I dont have sky, and its champs league night anyway, makes it an easy choice


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RE: My Top Film Noir - 17/2/2010 1:38:33 AM   
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"My brother is too kind. He was already eminent, while my eminence was merely imminent. "

Detour's on, but nobody watch it, ok?


I got it. I laughed. Rather too loudly. It's been a long day.

On the film front, being at uni more or less restricts me to whatever's on iPlayer. Legally Blonde has been a popular choice throughout my building


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RE: My Top Film Noir - 17/2/2010 1:42:30 AM   
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You're in Oxford, right? Who could have known those spires were dreaming of a Reese Witherspoon rom-com.

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