In this edition Sergio looks at the various iterations of MR ARKADIN, Orson Welles’ noir maudit, and presents the radio drama on which the film was based.

Sergio is joined by Dr Laura Mee to celebrate the 30th anniversary of SEVEN, David Fincher’s seminal Neo-Noir.

David Kalat joins Sergio for a celebration of the movie adventures of Dr Mabuse, the evil genius popularised in the films of Fritz Lang and now the subject of a new Blu-ray box set from Eureka.

A preview of coming attractions while Tipping My Fedora goes on Spring Break for a 6 weeks.

Sergio is joined by podcaster and novelist Jim Noy to discuss the work of Noir legend, Jim Thompson.

Sergio and Simon brown meet again to see what happened when star Charles Bronson and director Michael Winner reunited to make two sequels to their 1974 box-office smash, Death Wish.

Sergio is joined by Simon Brown to re-evaluate Michael Winner’s original Death Wish (1974), a hugely popular movie often buried in a surfeit of inferior sequels, remakes and imitations.

Sergio is joined by Lindsay Hallam to discuss the role of Film Noir in the work of David Lynch.

Sergio talks to Mark Dillon about KISS ME DEADLY, the apocalyptic Film Noir directed by Robert Aldrich adapted from Mickey Spillane’s best-seller featuring his ultra-hardboiled PI, Mike Hammer.

A special edition of the podcast in which we look at some of the best examples of Film Noir set during the Christmas season.

To celebrate what would have been the 131st birthday of Hollywood icon Edward G. Robinson, Sergio is joined by Craig Ian Mann to provide an overview of the many gangster roles he played during his career, examining how they transitioned from Depression-era tragedies of men who took the wrong path to fame and fortune to Noir-era sociopaths of the 40s and 50s who no longer have a place in society. Films discussed include: Little Caesar (1931) Bullets or Ballots (1936) The Last Gangster (1937) I am the Law (1938) Night has a Thousand Eyes (1948) Key Largo (1948) Black Tuesday (1954) Craig is a film historian, freelance writer and home video producer who works closely with Eureka Entertainment and their Masters of Cinema series. He is the author of Phases of the Moon: A Cultural History of the Werewolf Film, published by Edinburgh University Press in 2020, and has written for the BFI, Eureka, Second Sight Films, Indicator and Arrow Video amongst others. His latest writing appears in the Second Sight releases of The Hitcher and The Blair Witch Project and Eureka's Masters of Cinema edition of Hugo Fregonese’s Black Tuesday, previously previewed here at Fedora. Forthcoming is Mabuse Lives! - a set bringing together six of the Mabuse crime films made in Germany in the 1960s. For further details, visit: https://eurekavideo.co.uk/movie/mabuse-lives-limited-edition-box-set/ 

A look back at Kenneth Branagh’s box office hit, Dead Again (1991), a highly imaginative valentine to classic Film Noir that combines a murder mystery with the supernatural.

Sergio is joined by film and music expert John Leman Riley to provide an overview of the some of the film scores written for Film Noir in the classic 1941 to 1959 period.

Sergio is joined by Barry Forshaw, Craig Ian Mann and Sheldon Hall to previews the UK Blu-ray release of the 1954 drama Black Tuesday from Eureka in their Masters of Cinema series.

Sergio is joined by author and critic Mike Ripley to look at a tale of two tigers , or rather, two versions of The Tiger in the Smoke: the original 1952 novel my Margery Allingham, featuring her sleuth Albert Campion, and its film noir adaptation from 1956 that, despite being very faithful, chose to completely eliminate the series character.

We celebrate Halloween with a close look at Kathryn Bigelow's classic noir-western-horror hybrid, Near Dark.  My very special guest is Stacey Abbott, Professor of Film at Northumbria University, where she is a member of their Horror Studies Research Group. Her research focuses on horror and cult film and television, with a particular interest in vampire and zombies. She is the author of Celluloid Vampires (2007), Undead Apocalypse (2016) and the BFI Film Classic on Near Dark (2020). She is the co-author of TV Horror (2013) and the co-editor of Global TV Horror (2021), both with Professor Lorna Jowett. She regularly writes essays to accompany DVD and Blu-ray releases, including Second Sight’s Ginger Snaps, Possessor and Blair Witch Project, as well as Eureka’s Tank Girl and The Secret of NIMH.  She is currently writing a book on Horror Animation. Publication details: Near Dark (BFI Classics) by Stacey Abbott: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/near-dark-9781911239277/ Angel (TV Milestones) by Stacey Abbott: https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9780814333198 Celluloid Vampires by Stacey Abbott: https://utpress.utexas.edu/9780292716964/ Global TV Horror edited by Stacey Abbott and Lorna Jowett: www.uwp.co.uk/book/global-tv-horror/ TV Horror edited by Stacey Abbott and Lorna Jowett: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/tv-horror-9781848856189/ Undead Apocalypse by Stacey Abbott: https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/19174?login=false  

Sergio sits down with writer and filmmaker Liam Dunn to explore William Friedkin’s 1985 neo-noir, To Live and Die in LA.

Today’s podcast previews Film Noir Fest 2024, a 3-day event taking place in Weston-Super-Mare in the UK between from 1 to 3 November.

For the first episode of Tipping My Fedora (TMF), Sergio is joined by crime fiction critic and historian Barry Forshaw. Together they embark on a 25 year journey through Film Noir, featuring such thrillers as: This Gun for Hire (Frank Tuttle, 1942) starring Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd Criss Cross (Robert Siodmak, 1949) featuring Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo and Dan Duryea Private Hell 36 (Don Siegel, 1954) starring Ida Lupino, Howard Duff and Steve Cochrane The Scarface Mob (Phil Karlson, 1959/62) - the film that launched The Untouchables with Robert Stack Lady in a Cage (Walter Grauman, 1964) - a shocker in which rich invalid Olivia de Havilland gets stuck in an elevator and James Caan torments her Madigan (Don Siegel, 1968) with Richard Widmark’s eponymous cop getting unglued when he meets Henry Fonda. We also discuss the politically incorrect ’Parker’ novels by Richard Stark (aka Donald Westlake), the fascism of Dirty Harry and Coppola’s Godfather trilogy and the charges of ”nepo baby” casting that affected the final instalment.

This podcast explores the panorama of crime fiction and tries to answer one simple question: what is this thing called Film Noir? Join your host Sergio Angelini and his guests every 10 days as they uncover the secrets behind 100 years of crime movies, radio dramas, hardboiled fiction and thousands of television episodes.