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9 hrs ago | National Post

Chris Knight on DVDs: Legends both: biplane & boom box

Thankfully, Peter Gabriel realized the error of his ways: Would Lloyd Dobler be the same without In Your Eyes? Anniversaries offer time for reflection, and is there any medium more reflective than the silver screen? This week saw the release of two celebratory reissues: Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest turns 50; Cameron Crowe's Say Anything ...

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Related Topix: Thriller, Mystery Movies, North by Northwest, Adventure, Strangers on a Train, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Vocal, Alfred Hitchcock, Say Anything..., Cameron Crowe, Cary Grant

Yesterday | Ain't It Cool News

AICN Exclusive: WOLFMAN poster!!! It's very Film Noir...

Hey folks, Harry here with the debut of the killer film noir-esque 1 sheet of the WOLFMAN!!! Now earlier today the good folks at Cinematical were given the Emily Blunt poster - and now we have the Benicio as the WOLFMAN poster.

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Fri Nov 06, 2009

SF Gate

'Film Noir Classics: Vol. 1'

The best film in this five-movie set - and certainly the most well known - is Fritz Lang's hard-edged "The Big Heat" , based on the novel by William P. McGivern.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, The Big Heat, Drama Movies, Thriller, Glenn Ford, Lee Marvin, Gloria Grahame, San Francisco Metro, The Sniper

Watford Observer

Film Noir comes to Bushey

An Oxhey artist has a new exhibit in the Bushey Museum. 10:32am Friday 6th November 2009 Comments Have your say By Adam Binnie Seedy guys, femmes fatales and hard-boiled characters have been seen lurking amongst the exhibits in the Bushey Museum .

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Daily Herald

New classic film collection on DVD

Warner Home Entertainment and Turner Movie Classics have teamed up over the past year to release the "TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection." The collection consisted of 60 films in 15 themed groups, such as musicals, horror, romantic comedies and Best Picture Oscar winners.

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Related Topix: Horror Movies, Animation Movies, Short, A Christmas Carol, Family, Drama Movies, Musical Movies, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Suspicion, Claudette Colbert, Oscars, North by Northwest, Adventure, Vocal, Alfred Hitchcock

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Popsugar.com

Film Noir or Fancy Shampoo?

Do you know your film noir, doll? This cinematic genre often starred alluring actresses such as Veronica Lake, Rita Hayworth, and Ava Gardner.

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DVD Verdict

Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics I

The Sniper 1952 // 88 Minutes // Not Rated The Big Heat 1953 // 91 Minutes // Not Rated 5 Against The House 1955 // 83 Minutes // Not Rated The Lineup 1958 // 86 Minutes // Not Rated Murder By Contract 1958 // 80 Minutes // Not Rated Released by Sony Reviewed by Appellate Judge James A. Stewart // November 4th, 2009 View Appellate Judge Stewart's ...

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, The Big Heat, Drama Movies, Thriller, The Sniper, Glenn Ford, Lee Marvin, Vertigo, Mystery Movies

Mon Nov 02, 2009

The Republic of T

How Do You Just Watch a Rape?

NOTE: TRIGGER WARNING, VIDEO BELOW DEPICTS GRAPHIC RAPE SCENE FROM A MOVIE. WTF is wrong with people? How do you just watch a rape ? For more than two hours on a dark Saturday night, as many as 20 people watched or took part as a 15-year-old California girl was allegedly gang raped and beaten outside a high school homecoming dance, authorities ...

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Thriller, The Accused

Sun Nov 01, 2009

The Riverdale Press

Sat., Nov. 7

The Spuyten Duyvil Library, located at 650 W. 235th St., will show Panic in the Streets, at 1 p.m. Elia Kazan's 1950 film is set in New Orleans and is about a vicious hoodlum Blackie , who along with his friends, kill an illegal immigrant they believe won too much in a card game.

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Related Topix: Thriller, Panic in the Streets, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Elia Kazan, Jack Palance, Richard Widmark, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Lehman College, City University of New York

Fri Oct 30, 2009

Http

Movie Man: Take a wild ride with Alfred Hitchcock

Back in 1958, when they were working on "North by Northwest," Alfred Hitchcock told screenwriter Ernest Lehman that they weren't making a movie.

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Related Topix: Thriller, Mystery Movies, North by Northwest, Adventure, Rear Window, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Shadow of a Doubt, Saboteur, Horror Movies, Psycho, Vocal, Alfred Hitchcock, Entertainment

Thu Oct 29, 2009

Variety

Empire State Building Murders

A Canal Plus, Roche Prods. presentation, in association with Arte France, YLE, SBS-TV Australia, BeTV, in collaboration with RTBF-Television Belge, with the participation of Centre National de la Cinematographie, with the support of Procirep, Angoa.

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Related Topix: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Crime Movies, Detective Story, Drama Movies, Kirk Douglas, Singin' in the Rain, Musical Movies, Cyd Charisse, Patrick Floersheim

Wed Oct 28, 2009

Wirral Globe

Woody Allen comedy classic is coming to Wirral theatre

BEBINGTON Dramatic Society presents Woody Allen's romantic comedy Play It Again, Sam at the Gladstone Theatre in Port Sunlight from November 12-14. The play is about Allan Felix, who writes for a film magazine and whose life is dominated by the silver screen.

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Related Topix: Woody Allen, Pop/Rock, Merseyside County, England, United Kingdom, Mystery Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, The Maltese Falcon, Humphrey Bogart

Tue Oct 27, 2009

The Phoenix

More noir: the Columbia Noir Classics on DVD

More noir: the Columbia Noir Classics on DVD 0 After writing the onerous article on " Boston Noir " and attending the "Boston Noir" book launch/reading at the Boston Book Festival I thought I'd fill in the gaps in my noir knowledge by checking out the Columbia Film Noir Classics I box set of five 50s B-ish films from that genre, to be released by ...

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Related Topix: The Big Heat, Thriller, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, M, Lee Marvin, Gloria Grahame

Mon Oct 26, 2009

Salon.com

Fear Clinic Keeps Focus on Terror, Not Plot

Welcome to Embedda-Scare-A-Thon! For the week leading up to Halloween, NewTeeVee Station will be reviewing web series appropriate to the season.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Horror Movies, Nightmare, Drama Movies, Thriller, Mystery Movies

Freerepublic.com

Joseph Wiseman Dies at 91; Actor Played Villian in First Bond Film Starring Sean Connery

The stage and screen star was cast as the sinister title character in 1962's 'Dr. No'. Joseph Wiseman, a stage and screen actor who played the sinister title character in "Dr. No," the 1962 film that introduced Sean Connery as James Bond, has died.

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Related Topix: Dr. No, Action Movies, Thriller, Adventure, Crime Movies, Thunderball, Goldfinger, Drama Movies, Detective Story, Sean Connery, Joseph Wiseman

Sun Oct 25, 2009

TV Guide

Englund: I Could Barely Watch Fear Clinic

Take actors from three of Hollywood's biggest horror film franchises, add an old abandoned hospital as the setting, and even Robert Englund can get scared.

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Related Topix: Science Fiction TV, V, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Science Fiction Movies, Robert Englund, Horror Movies, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Nightmare, Drama Movies

Sat Oct 24, 2009

New York Times

Film Noir and Western, Onstage Together

As a person who still dreams of making it big with a killer piece of fiction, I have a theory about Gino DiIorio's forcefully absorbing "Dead Ringer," which is having its world premiere courtesy of the New Jersey Repertory Company .

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Related Topix: Sports, Horse Racing

Washington Times

Beyond Hollywood: Noir festival's bright future

It's back - though it shouldn't come as any surprise. Last year marked the first Noir City DC, a tribute to film noir at the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, The Killers, Drama Movies

Fri Oct 23, 2009

Journal News

Catch Big Screen Classics at Suffern's Lafayette Theatre

In Suffern, Nelson Page is once again firing up the mighty Wurlitzer organ Saturday mornings before his Big Screen Classics.

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Related Topix: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Horror Movies, Animation Movies, Comedy Movies, Family, Drama Movies, Musical Movies, Theater, Arts, It's a Wonderful Life, Mildred Pierce, Mystery Movies

Wed Oct 21, 2009

NBC26

Wiseman, who played villain in 1962 'Dr. No,' dies

Joseph Wiseman, an actor who played the sinister scientist and title character Dr.

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Related Topix: Dr. No, Thriller, Action Movies, Adventure, Detective Story, Crime Movies, Western, The Unforgiven, Drama Movies, Joseph Wiseman

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