Late night. A Serbian Orthodox church in Maryland. November winds rattle the trees. In a shadowed corner, near the entrance to the common areas and the kitchen, a lone Orthodox priest speaks with a figure in a coal black suit.
Tag: film noir
Upcoming Blogs: Thoughts from CyberNoirAlley
Life is a series of stages. Those stages, for me, are about being a different “X Guy” at different times. In high school, I was ‘that weird guy’ or ‘that Kafka guy’ because of my love of SFF and deep obsession with the works of Franz Kafka. I even had a T-shirt from the local… Continue reading Upcoming Blogs: Thoughts from CyberNoirAlley
It’s Always Noirvember in Our Hearts
It's November. Or, to my little on-line circle of cinema lovers, Noirvember. There's even a #Noirvemberchallenge out there on the Twitters. Today, I got name dropped by Christa Fucking Faust as we talked about our favorite cinematographers. (Yes, I'm a John Alton fanboy. There's a pantheon of great noir cinematographers including Alton, James Wong Howe,… Continue reading It’s Always Noirvember in Our Hearts
Where’s the fedora? On “Noir” Themes
Film Noir. Nordic Noir.Hard boiled versus Noir writing. Anytime you write about the arts, you end up in a circular march about themes and ideas and genre. It’s great copy for blogs like mine. It’s the kind of thing I love debating about in convention panels. It can also get caught around your throat like… Continue reading Where’s the fedora? On “Noir” Themes
In the Heat of the Sun: Desert Noir
Film noir. Two words which conjure images of unshaven men in fedoras, dangerous women in evening dresses, rain-slicked back alleys in America's cities, and... prospectors in California mining towns? And yet, I'm starting to find the arid lands outside of the great noir settings hold just as many people making bad decisions in a desperate… Continue reading In the Heat of the Sun: Desert Noir
Bad Decisions Make Good Stories
I've seen this on a t-shirt in a few different places. It's supposed to be some kind of devil-may-care, "I'm try-sexual - I'll try anything" type of declaration. But I saw it worn by the co-author of Hard Case Crime's brilliant comic, Peepland. And it might as well be the thesis for film noir, and… Continue reading Bad Decisions Make Good Stories
Biomechanoid Blues 