East Bay Express film reviewer Kelly Vance joins us to talk about the "Now Playing" feature on filmnoirfoundation.org, a newly added guide to noir-tinged movie and streaming news. We also round up a bunch of great classic noir releases on Blu-ray in the last few years from specialty outlets who've all been releasing terrific films mostly unavailable on home video before now:
-- KL Studio Classics: Pitfall, 99 River Street, Cry Of The City, Deadline USA. Hollow Triumph, Boomerang, The Woman In The Window, He Ran All The Way, Roadhouse, I Wake Up Screaming, The Chase, A Kiss Before Dying, I Walk Alone, The Taking of Pelham 123
-- Olive: Cry Danger, Try And Get Me, The Big Combo, Body And Soul, Plunder Road, Crashout, Odds Against Tomorrow
-- Flicker Alley: Too Late For Tears, Woman on the Run, The Man Who Cheated Himself
-- VCI: The Prowler, New York Confidential (DVD only)
-- ClassicFlix: T-Men, Raw Deal, He Walked By Night, You Only Live Once
-- Cohen Film Collection: Jamaica Inn, Sudden Fear
-- Twilight Time: Kiss Of Death, Inferno 3D
-- Warner Archive: Gun Crazy
Follow the FNF's Now Playing listings here: http://filmnoirfoundation.org/now-playing.html
Please send us any feedback you have on our show to podcast@filmnoirfoundation.org, and rate/review us on iTunes.
Music: Themes from The Prowler, 99 River Street, Pitfall, Plunder Road, Deadline USA
Dialogue from New York Confidential, with Anne Bancroft, Richard Conte, and Broderick Crawford.
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East Bay Express film reviewer Kelly Vance joins us to talk about the "Now Playing" feature on filmnoirfoundation.org, a newly added guide to noir-tinged movie and streaming news. We also round up a bunch of great classic noir releases on Blu-ray in the last few years from specialty outlets who've all been releasing terrific films mostly unavailable on home video before now:
-- KL Studio Classics: Pitfall, 99 River Street, Cry Of The City, Deadline USA. Hollow Triumph, Boomerang, The Woman In The Window, He Ran All The Way, Roadhouse, I Wake Up Screaming, The Chase, A Kiss Before Dying, I Walk Alone, The Taking of Pelham 123
-- Olive: Cry Danger, Try And Get Me, The Big Combo, Body And Soul, Plunder Road, Crashout, Odds Against Tomorrow
-- Flicker Alley: Too Late For Tears, Woman on the Run, The Man Who Cheated Himself
-- VCI: The Prowler, New York Confidential (DVD only)
-- ClassicFlix: T-Men, Raw Deal, He Walked By Night, You Only Live Once
-- Cohen Film Collection: Jamaica Inn, Sudden Fear
-- Twilight Time: Kiss Of Death, Inferno 3D
-- Warner Archive: Gun Crazy
Follow the FNF's Now Playing listings here: http://filmnoirfoundation.org/now-playing.html
Please send us any feedback you have on our show to podcast@filmnoirfoundation.org, and rate/review us on iTunes.
Music: Themes from The Prowler, 99 River Street, Pitfall, Plunder Road, Deadline USA
Dialogue from New York Confidential, with Anne Bancroft, Richard Conte, and Broderick Crawford.
Ep 8: Hollywood Nocturne -- Classic Film Noir Scores, with Steven C. Smith (Part 2)
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Ep 8: Hollywood Nocturne -- Classic Film Noir Scores, with Steven C. Smith (Part 2)
Part 2 of our survey of film noir musical scores and their composers, with Emmy-nominated producer and author Steven C. Smith, covers the following composers and film scores:
Bernard Herrmann - Concerto Macabre Part 1 (1:55), Part 2 (9:50), from Hangover Square
Max Steiner - White Heat (18:55)
Alfred Newman - Cry Of The City (22:20)
Max Steiner - Treasure of the Sierra Madre (25:10), Mildred Pierce (27:25)
Franz Waxman - Sunset Blvd (31:10)
Dmitri Tiomkin - Angel Face (37:50)
Bernard Herrmann - On Dangerous Ground (41:50)
David Raksin - The Big Combo (47:00)
Arthur Schwartz - The Band Wagon (MGM musical noir parody) (49:30)
NOIR CITY DC schedule and ticket info available here: http://afi.com/silver/films/2017/p83/headnotes.aspx#noir-city-dc
The FNF is co-presenting a screening of Gaslight at AFI Silver with a post-movie discussion panel on "gaslighting": https://silver.afi.com/Browsing/Movies/Details/m-0100000121
Steven C. Smith's "Bernard Herrmann and the Music of Desire: An essay on the Composer’s Noir soundtracks" from NOIR CITY #3: http://www.noircitymag.com/noir_city_3.html
A Heart At Fire's Center: The Life And Music Of Bernard Herrmann: https://www.amazon.com/Heart-Fires-Center-Bernard-Herrmann/dp/0520229398
Woody Haut's "On The Down Beat: Investigating the Special Relationship Between Film Noir and Jazz" from NOIR CITY #15: http://www.noircitymag.com/noir_city_15.html
Please send us any feedback you have on our show to podcast@filmnoirfoundation.org.
Intro music: Theme from Kansas City Confidential, by Paul Sawtell.
Exit music: Theme from Chinatown, by Jerry Goldsmith.
NOIR TALK
East Bay Express film reviewer Kelly Vance joins us to talk about the "Now Playing" feature on filmnoirfoundation.org, a newly added guide to noir-tinged movie and streaming news. We also round up a bunch of great classic noir releases on Blu-ray in the last few years from specialty outlets who've all been releasing terrific films mostly unavailable on home video before now:
-- KL Studio Classics: Pitfall, 99 River Street, Cry Of The City, Deadline USA. Hollow Triumph, Boomerang, The Woman In The Window, He Ran All The Way, Roadhouse, I Wake Up Screaming, The Chase, A Kiss Before Dying, I Walk Alone, The Taking of Pelham 123
-- Olive: Cry Danger, Try And Get Me, The Big Combo, Body And Soul, Plunder Road, Crashout, Odds Against Tomorrow
-- Flicker Alley: Too Late For Tears, Woman on the Run, The Man Who Cheated Himself
-- VCI: The Prowler, New York Confidential (DVD only)
-- ClassicFlix: T-Men, Raw Deal, He Walked By Night, You Only Live Once
-- Cohen Film Collection: Jamaica Inn, Sudden Fear
-- Twilight Time: Kiss Of Death, Inferno 3D
-- Warner Archive: Gun Crazy
Follow the FNF's Now Playing listings here: http://filmnoirfoundation.org/now-playing.html
Please send us any feedback you have on our show to podcast@filmnoirfoundation.org, and rate/review us on iTunes.
Music: Themes from The Prowler, 99 River Street, Pitfall, Plunder Road, Deadline USA
Dialogue from New York Confidential, with Anne Bancroft, Richard Conte, and Broderick Crawford.