It's that time of year. Nights get longer. Shadows get darker. This is the Big Noirvember.
This year, the job's tougher: You need to watch 30 noirs in 30 days. This is no Long Noirvember, doll face. It's the Big Noirvember now. You'll need to be scrappier. Quicker. Smarter. And no cheating, wise guy! Watch these pictures between November 1, 2024, and November 30, 2024.
Pick one moving picture from each category below. Otherwise, pick your poisons. Mix it up with classics (released 1941 to 1958) and neo-noirs all you want. Watch something you never saw before, or revisit an old favorite. Use your own judgment on what counts as "film noir." Use the lists liked below for ideas—but follow your nose.
Leave a review. Tag 'em with "tbn2024" the "the big noirvember 2024". And link your personal list in the comments below.
You've got 30 days, gumshoe. Better get to work.
Current Progress: 0/30
Challengers:
🕵🏼 SavageBob
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.)
2. Featuring a MacGuffin
3. Featuring "one last job"
4. Sci fi noir
5. Asian noir (set in Asia, featuring Asian characters, or made in Asia)
6. Latin noir (set in Latin America, featuring Latinx characters, or made in Latin America)
7. A noir from a country that isn't yet green on your Letterboxd map
8. Eddie Muller’s 25 Noirs That Will Stand the Test of Time
9. Paste Magazine's 100 Best Film Noirs of All Time
10. 50 International Film Noir Classics that Everyone Should See
11. Oscar-nominated noir
12. Oscar-winning noir
13. Directed by Fritz Lang
14. Directed by Robert Siodmak
15. Starring Robert Mitchum
16. Starring Joan Bennett
17. Written by or based on work by Raymond Chandler
18. Written by or based on work by Cornell Woolrich
19. Written by or based on work by a woman
20. Warner Bros.
21. Paramount
22. Universal International
23. Costumes by Edith Head
24. Cinematography by James Wong Howe
25. With "Big" in the title
26. With "Confidential" in the title
27. With a one-word title
28. Watch a pre-1960 film in color, or a post-1960 film in black and white
29. Adapted to radio
30. Any film noir on your watchlist
Don't like a category? Do Prompt 30 as many times as you like.
Helpful Links:
Wikipedia's film noir listWikipedia's neo-noir list