 A Lively Discussion of Film Noir. Not just another film review show, this podcast is an examination of the impact and history of film noir from the Maltese Falcon to Batman Begins. Every two weeks there is a new 30 minute episode focused on a single film noir classic.Login to Add this to your PlaylistPrimary Format :
Language :
Also Listed as:
City :
State/Province :
Country :
Region :
User Tags:
User Votes:
 RSS Feed
Website
People found this Podcast
Searching for:
View this Podcast on a Google Map. 
 Text Only listing of Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir Podcasts
 Methings.com listings of Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir Podcasts
If you like this podcast, you might also like:
|
View the full archive of Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir
Response to Episode 50: The Blue Dahlia (Eric Harvey)Eric Harvey, a Junior at Reed College, responds to Episode 50: The Blue Dahlia with a thoughtful commentary on the scholarship on this film. Harvey focuses on how director Marshall weakens the potential power of Chandler's screenplay by comparing the finished film with Chandler's actual screenplay directions. Harvey addresses stories about Chandler's drinking during the writing of the screenplay, with a special focus on James Naremore's recent scholarship on Chandler's "lack of an ending" f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 50: The Blue DahliaA script by Raymond Chandler. Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, and William Bendix in leading roles. Costumes by the great Edith Head, and cinematography by Lionel Lindon, who had been nominated for best cinematography just the year before for the Oscar sensation GOING MY WAY. In short, THE BLUE DAHLIA seems to have everything going itâs way. Why, then, does the film fail to deliver the emotional impact of near contemporary titles like THE KILLERS or THE BIG SLEEP? To frame an answer to this q ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 49: Bande àpart (with Dr. Jeffrey Peters)In this episode, guest investigator Jeffrey Peters (Associate Professor of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Kentucky), leads a panel of five undergraduate students from his Honors Program course "French Film Noir" in a discussion of Jean-Luc Godard's 1964 BAND OF OUTSIDERS (Bande à part), starring Anna Karina, Sami Frey, and Claude Brasseur. Jeff is a specialist in early modern French literature and culture, poetics and rhetoric, and film studies, and former chair of th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 48: In a Lonely Place (with Megan Abbott)Clute and Edwards welcome guest investigator Megan Abbott , the reigning Dark Dame of Noir. Megan is the author of a superb nonfiction study of hardboiled and noir protagonists entitled THE STREET WAS MINE, and three gut-wrenching throwback crime novels: DIE A LITTLE, THE SONG IS YOU, and QUEENPIN. The first title is scheduled to be released as a United Artists feature film in 2010, with Jessica Biel in the lead role. Megan's choice for this episode is the 1950 Nicholas Ray film IN A LONELY ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 46: Thieves Highway (with Eddie Muller)Thanks to listener support, Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noiris a featured podcast at iTunes, has generated nearly 200,000 downloads worldwide, and has a per-episode audience of over 4,000. With such a record of success, Clute and Edwards are now able to reach out to a wide range of noir scholars, to use the program as a forum to broaden public discourse on the enduring importance of this distinctively American film style. May's guest is the Czar of Noir, Eddie Muller. Eddie is the F ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 47: Bob Le Flambeur (with Howard Rodman and Mike White)Howard Rodman and Mike White are this episodeâs guest investigators. Rodman and White discuss Jean-Pierre Melvilleâs great 1956 film, Bob Le Flambeur. Howard Rodman is a screenwriter, novelist and USC film professor. His most recent screen credits include Savage Grace and August. Mike White is the publisher and editors of Cahiers du Cinemart, an obscure and obtuse film magazine from Detroit. Visit Mikeâs website at impossiblefunky.com. This podcast is brought to you by Clute and Edwards, of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Noircon 2008: The Official Podcast Day 3: Cybernoir PanelShannon Clute, Seth Harwood, and Richard Edwards presented this Cybernoir panel on April 5th, 2008, as part of the Noircon Conference in Philadelphia. Clute and Edwards kick things off with a discussion of how noir style and pulp publishing models seem to provide the fundamental structuring logics of emerging digital mediaâfrom blogs to podcasts, mashups to video games. Seth Harwood then relates his own experience of podcasting his first novel, JACK WAKES UPâfrom producing the initial audio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Noircon 2008: The Official Podcast Day 2: George Lippard and Philly NoirPhiladelphia noir is the focus of two panels at Noircon 2008. The first panel presents the historical moment, cultural milieu and writings of the 19th century Philly writer George Lippard. Ed Petit and Robert Polito make a compelling case to consider Lippard an important proto-noir author, an author whose writings look back towards 1798's gothic novel WIELAND and forward towards 20th century hardboiled. The second panel addresses the issue of Philly noir through a discussion among noir and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Noircon 2008: The Official Podcast Day 2: Editors and Publishers Tackle NoirClute and Edwards discuss the editing and publishing of noir fiction with three members of this Day 2 Noircon panel: Charles Ardai, Stacia Decker, and Michael Langnas. Charles Ardai is the editor and publisher of the Hard Case Crime series. Stacia Decker is an editor who has worked with such writers as Ray Banks, Declan Burke, Allan Guthrie and John McFetridge. Michael Langnas is the editor-in-chief of Murdaland Magazine, a crime-fiction journal put out by Baltimore-based publisher Cortwrig ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Noircon 2008: The Official Podcast Day 3: Wise Guys and Femmes FataleWise guys and femmes fatale form the central focus of these next panel discussions from Noircon 2008. In the first half of the podcast, Clute and Edwards talk with authors George Anastasia and Anthony Bruno. Anastasia and Bruno are two seasoned mob-watchers who uncover life on the mean streets-Philly style. Based on their Noircon panel, Wise Guy Noir, they give us an inside look into the Godfathers and Goodfellas of Philadelphia. In the second half, Clute and Edwards lead a lively roundtabl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Noircon 2008: The Official Podcast Day OneDay One: Opening Night. Noircon 2008 opens at the Society Hill Playhouse in Philadelphia, PA. Clute and Edwards kick off this special podcast mini-series coverage with short interviews from the opening night reception. They talk with film critic Irv Slifkin, authors Gary Phillips, Seth Harwood, Ken Bruen, âThe Czar of Noirâ Eddie Muller, publisher Dennis McMillan, conference organizer Lou Boxer, and author Duane Swierczynski. We finish with an interview of the first presenter of Noircon, Pr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Noircon Announcement: April 3 to April 6, 2008Make travel plans now to join Clute and Edwards in Philadelphia, April third to sixth 2008, where they'll be podcasting from the NoirCon conference. The hottest noir writers, screenwriters, filmmakers, scholars, webmasters, graphic artists, and publishers will attend this unique conference, which attracts top-flight talent while retaining an intimate atmosphere. For more information on the conference, visit www.noircon.com. If you can't make it, be sure to tune in to Clute and Edwards's dai ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 45: Force of EvilFORCE OF EVIL shows us that small-time graft is less dangerous than big-time rackets that have the law, the trust of the public, and the appearance of respectability on their side. Ultimately, the crime is the system itself, and the very philosophical underpinnings of capitalism are liable. And while Abraham Polonsky's courage in addressing these themes is remarkable, the degree of craft he exhibits as a rookie director is nothing short of astonishing. With Ira Wolfert, he co-authors a scri ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 36: His Kind of Woman"His Kind Of Woman" makes viewers aware of what they expect from noir by disappointing their expectations. The film moves quickly from the down and out digs of gambler Dan Milner (Mitchum) to a sunbathed beachside resort in Mexico. There, it takes its time setting up a complicated intrigue involving a large ensemble cast. It introduces the sultry Lenore Brent (Russell) as a mysterious dame, only to domesticate her by the end of the film, and gives the character of Mark Cardigan (Price)--a B ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 44: BrickRian Johnson's superlative 2005 debut film BRICK is neither a nostalgic tribute nor a modern reaction to noir style. But due to the conditions surrounding its production, it has more in common with classic noir than most films that play overtly with noir tradition: stiletto-tongued hard-boiled dialogue, razor-sharp editing, on-location shooting, the creative use of ambient sound, and narratively-rich canted angle shots and high-contrast lighting allow BRICK to overcome the pitfalls of a sma ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Eddie Muller Interview: Noir City 6, and More!The Czar of Noir joins Clute and Edwards to discuss the upcoming Noir City film festival, and the various fiction and film projects he has in the works.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 43: They Live By NightTHEY LIVE BY NIGHT is film noir at its best. Edward Anderson's little-known hard-boiled rural bandit novel is made into a screenplay as lean as the post-war dreams of its players. The shifty camera frames every sucker that comes its way, making them false promises then plunging each into a darkness more than night. Rookie director Nicholas Ray mercilessly rolls rising stars Farley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell in the existential muck, but manages nonetheless to show us the ethereal gold that ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 42: The Ice HarvestThis special episode of OUT OF THE PAST is full of holiday surprises. Clute and Edwards investigate the 2005 neo-noir Christmas comedy THE ICE HARVEST, then speak with Scott Phillips, author of the 2000 hardboiled novel on which the film is based. While the book contains its share of dark humor, it is largely a tale of the moral tipping point in the life of Witchita Mob lawyer Charlie Arglist (played by John Cusack), who discovers his capacity for ruthlessness when backed into a corner. The ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 15: The Lady From ShanghaiEvery Orson Welles film demonstrates the great director's ability to work with and against filmic tradition. "The Lady from Shanghai" is a compendium of noir conventions: it tells a tale of post-war greed, of Americans willing to tear each other asunder for a dollar; it is the story of an irresistible dame and the smart guy who becomes a chump the second he lays eyes on her; it uses A-stars against type so as to bring out their blemishes and inner demons (even daring to cut and dye Hayworth ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 41: The Glass Key and Miller's CrossingStuart Heisler's 1942 film THE GLASS KEY retained the personages and major plot twists of Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel by the same name, but wiped the grim off the original tale. By cleaning up the characters and their motives, the film missed an opportunity to picture its stellar cast (Dunlevy, Ladd, and Lake) in a noir light. Instead, for much of its running time it looks and feels like the glamour whodunnit pictures, or populist clean-government reform films, of the 1930's. Hammett's no ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
|
