All credit goes to SavageBob. I just turned his year-long idea into a month-long idea because I'm a masochist.
letterboxd.com/savagebob/
Original list: letterboxd.com/savagebob/list/the-long-noirvember-a-film-noir-challenge
FINISHED 11/30/23 - 52 out of 52
Favorites:
1. Sunset Boulevard
2. Ace in the Hole
3. Nightcrawler
4. Le Samouraï
5. Mikey and Nicky
I'll be watching and reviewing these all during the month of November 2023. No rewatches allowed, these are all first-time watches for me.
A few of these might stretch the definition of noir, but I did my best to follow along using other Letterboxd lists.
Categories:
1. Random Letter Generator (Google random letter generator and generate a letter from A to Z. Watch a film noir starting with that letter, ignoring a,…
All credit goes to SavageBob. I just turned his year-long idea into a month-long idea because I'm a masochist.
letterboxd.com/savagebob/
Original list: letterboxd.com/savagebob/list/the-long-noirvember-a-film-noir-challenge
FINISHED 11/30/23 - 52 out of 52
Favorites:
1. Sunset Boulevard
2. Ace in the Hole
3. Nightcrawler
4. Le Samouraï
5. Mikey and Nicky
I'll be watching and reviewing these all during the month of November 2023. No rewatches allowed, these are all first-time watches for me.
A few of these might stretch the definition of noir, but I did my best to follow along using other Letterboxd lists.
Categories:
1. Random Letter Generator (Google random letter generator and generate a letter from A to Z. Watch a film noir starting with that letter, ignoring a, an, the, or foreign-language equivalents.) - White Heat (1949) dir. Raoul Walsh
2. Amnesia in film noir - Mr. Arkadin (1955) dir. Orson Welles
3. Horses in film noir - The Red Shoes (1948) dir. Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
4. Diners in film noir - Ace in the Hole (1951) dir. Billy Wilder
5. Made by women - The Hitch-Hiker (1953) dir. Ida Lupino
6. Black noir - Deep Cover (1992) dir. Bill Duke
7. Blacklisted noir - Trumbo (2015) dir. Jay Roach
8. Studio: RKO - Out of the Past (1947) dir. Jacques Tourneur
9. Studio: Eagle-Lion - Reign of Terror (1949) dir. Anthony Mann
10. Studio: MGM - Gaslight (1944) dir. George Cukor
11. Studio: PRC - Detour (1945) dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
12. Featured on Out of the Podcast: A Film Noir Podcast - Kansas City Confidential (1952) dir. Phil Karlson
13. Deadline's 50 Classic Noir Films - Double Indemnity (1944) dir. Billy Wilder
14. Yahoo! Entertainment’s 15 Best Film Noir Movies - The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) dir. Joel Coen
15. BFI's 10 Essential Black Performances in Noir - Coffy (1973) dir. Jack Hill
16. 10 Essential Noirvember Double Bills - Film #1 - Sunset Boulevard (1950) dir. Billy Wilder
17. 10 Essential Noirvember Double Bills - Film #2 - In a Lonely Place (1950) dir. Nicholas Ray
18. Restored by the Film Noir Foundation - The Prowler (1951) dir. Joseph Losey
19. Noir in the Criterion Collection - Blue Velvet (1986) dir. David Lynch
20. Noir in the public domain - Scarlet Street (1945) - dir. Fritz Lang
21. Runtime of 80 minutes or less - Pi (1998) dir. Darren Aronofsky
22. Runtime of 120 minutes or more - Blade Runner 2049 (2017) dir. Denis Villeneuve
23. Letterboxd rating of 3.0 or lower - Family Business (1989) dir. Sidney Lumet
24. Directed by Jules Dassin - Brute Force (1947)
25. Directed by Billy Wilder - Stalag 17 (1953)
26. Directed by Ida Lupino - Not Wanted (1949)
27. Starring Joan Crawford - Sudden Fear (1952) dir. David Miller
28. Starring Vincent Price - Laura (1944) dir. Otto Preminger
29. Starring Evelyn Keyes - 99 River Street (1953) dir. Phil Karlson
30. Starring José Ferrer - The Evil That Men Do (1984) dir. J. Lee Thompson
31. Music: Crime jazz - Elevator to the Gallows (1958) dir. Louis Malle
32. Music by Miklós Rózsa - The Naked City (1948) dir. Jules Dassin
33. Cinematography by John Alton - Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) dir. John Frankenheimer
34. Made in France - Le Samouraï (1967) dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
35. Made in Japan - Stray Dog (1949) dir. Akira Kurosawa
36. Made in Latin America - Gilda (1946) dir. Charles Vidor
37. Made in India - Andhadhun (2018) dir. Sriram Raghavan
38. Made in the UK - Odd Man Out (1947) dir. Carol Reed
39. A proto-noir - The Public Enemy (1931) dir. William A. Wellman
40. LA noir - A Scanner Darkly (2006) dir. Richard Linklater
41. Rural noir - Nocturnal Animals (2016) dir. Tom Ford
42. Neon noir - Fallen Angels (1995) dir. Wong Kar-wai
43. 1940s - Shadow of a Doubt (1943) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
44. 1950s - Detective Story (1951) dir. William Wyler
45. 1960s - In the Heat of the Night (1967) dir. Norman Jewison
46. 1970s - Mikey and Nicky (1976) dir. Elaine May
47. 1980s - Fatal Attraction (1987) dir. Adrian Lyne
48. 1990s - Léon: The Professional (1994) dir. Luc Besson
49. 2000s - Watchmen (2009) dir. Zack Snyder
50. 2010s - The Handmaiden (2016) dir. Park Chan-wook
51. 2020s - Nightmare Alley (2021) dir. Guillermo del Toro
52. Any film noir on your watchlist - Nightcrawler (2014) dir. Dan Gilroy