The Big Noirvember: A Film Noir Challenge for 2025.
Wake up, kid. You’ve been laying low since last year's challenge. But it’s time to get back on the streets. This is the Big Noirvember.
What, you got amnesia? The setup's simple: 30 pictures in 30 nights. The job starts November 1 and wraps November 30.
Scope out the categories below and peep one flick from each. Think of the linked lists as leads in your investigation. But what you watch is your business. You can stick with the old-timers from '41 to '58, or mix in some slick neo-noirs. Watch an old favorite you’ve seen a dozen times, or some new story you never laid eyes on before. The law’s…
The Big Noirvember: A Film Noir Challenge for 2025.
Wake up, kid. You’ve been laying low since last year's challenge. But it’s time to get back on the streets. This is the Big Noirvember.
What, you got amnesia? The setup's simple: 30 pictures in 30 nights. The job starts November 1 and wraps November 30.
Scope out the categories below and peep one flick from each. Think of the linked lists as leads in your investigation. But what you watch is your business. You can stick with the old-timers from '41 to '58, or mix in some slick neo-noirs. Watch an old favorite you’ve seen a dozen times, or some new story you never laid eyes on before. The law’s loose on what counts as a "noir"—you'll know it when it grabs you by the throat.
Don’t forget to keep receipts. Leave a review. Stamp it with “tbn2025.” Drop a link to your list in the comments below like a calling card in the gutter.
Thirty days. Thirty pictures. After that, it's curtains, the kind that drop hard, fast, and final. Better get moving, kid. See you in the shadows.
Categories:
☑ 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.
