Watched: 11/30
Original list here.
1. Random number generator: Generate a number between 1941–1958 and watch a noir from that year. (Alternative: Increase the range up as far as you like to include neo-noirs.)
2. Boxing noir
✅️ 3. A noir focused on a sport other than boxing (note that this linked list includes boxing and non-boxing noirs, so you'll have to be a bit picky)
4. Horror noir
5. Eastern Bloc noir
6. Bush noir: a noir from Australia
✅️ 7. Named for a place you'd like to visit
8. Named for a place you've already been
9. Queer-coded noir
10. Noir that passes the Bechdel test
✅️ 11. Directed by Anthony Mann
12. Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville
13. Starring Ida Lupino
✅️ 14. Starring Burt Lancaster
15. Written by or based on work by James M. Cain
16. Written by or based on work by Muriel Roy Bolton or Muriel Box
17. Studio: United Artists
✅️ 18. Studio: Columbia Pictures
19. Studio: Allied Artists Pictures
✅️ 20. Featured on the Pods Against Tomorrow podcast
21. Featured on the Tipping My Fedora podcast
✅️ 22. Cinematography by Elwood Bredell
23. Set Decoration by Russell A. Gausman
24. Watch a noir with a full sentence for a title.
✅️ 25. A film noir parody or comedy
✅️ 26. A film noir musical
27. An erotic thriller or a sleazy noir
✅️ 28. A noir with a salacious tagline
29. Holiday noir
✅️ 30. Any film noir on your watchlist
Don't like a category? Do Prompt 30 as many times as you like.
Rewatches: Sweet Smell of Success, The Big Combo.
