Muller combines a wealth of information about the films that have come to define his career along with the drinks he’s discovered, perfected, and invented. “Noir Bar” is one of those rare books that blends subjects so seamlessly that even non-drinkers or novice film lovers will find enjoyable. Continue reading EDDIE MULLER’S NOIR BAR
Orson Welles needed money. That’s how this story begins. Back in 1946, Welles was putting the finishing touches on an ambitious stage production of Around the World in 80 Days—a musical!—and funds were running dry. So he called studio boss … Continue reading THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI
The man looks unassuming. He’s Teodoro Ulber (Nathán Pinzón), a middle-aged English professor, short and squat with proper manners and nice clothes. He’s timid in the company of women; reserved around men. But little children seem to like him, even … Continue reading EL VAMPIRO NEGRO
I was gonna be a dancer. I was a brunette. Started on my toes and wound up on my heels So says Ruth Roman in Tomorrow is Another Day, a forgotten lovers-on-the-lam noir from 1951. Or it would have been forgotten … Continue reading Eddie Muller on DARK CITY: THE LOST WORLD OF FILM NOIR
“This certainly isn’t the game plan we had in mind earlier this year,” Pola Changnon, TCM General Manager, told a conference call full of reporters on April 14. “We’re glad we’re able to execute something this robust in such a … Continue reading “Changes breed creativity.”
A man has been killed on a train bound for Berlin. But it turns out that the man dead was not who he says he was, and his enemies are still out there and looking for revenge. Set and filmed … Continue reading BERLIN EXPRESS
We stand together and reinforce the extraordinary value of this art form. And by ‘we,’ I mean all of us who love cinema and who learn about it as we watch and re-watch these precious films. —Martin Scorsese On April … Continue reading A Community in the Dark: Dispatches from the TCM Classic Film Festival
Noir: when they first started making them, they didn’t even have a name for them. Born from a literary movement popularized by Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, Cornell Woolrich, Raymond Chandler, and dozens more, film noir—so-called by the French over a … Continue reading Noir City Denver
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