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"Luchino Visconti never made a mediocre film and his masterpieces reach the heights of cinema. The Damned, at once illustrious and a little forgotten, is definitely one of his greatest and most misunderstood. This strange mash-up of Buddenbrooks and Macbeth is a film noir, deranged and of a profound audacity in its treatment of what burned at the heart of Weimar Germany and the era’s capitalist system. Of an incredible originality and daring for the industry of the time, it paved the way for the entirety of Fassbinder's work and without it Pasolini's Salò (which was heavily inspired by this film) would have been impossible."

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Champion (1949)

7.3 (4 Ratings) Rate It

Movie

Midge Kelly, hitchhiking west with lame brother Connie, is hustled unprepared into a pro boxing...

The Third Man (1949)

8.0 (9 Ratings) Rate It

Movie

The Third Man is a 1949 British film noir directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene....

GustavoCampello (6 KP) rated The Wild Goose Lake (2019) in Movies

Feb 10, 2022

The Wild Goose Lake (2019)

2019 | Crime, Drama

8.0

(1 Ratings)

Movie Rating

Beautiful film nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The director plays with various genres ranging from action, drama, noir and romance. The technical part is perfect and the rhythm helps a lot. It's funny how during the film we completely forget that the main character is not really a good guy, but a criminal without many scruples, and this is a very interesting asset of the film, as he intentionally manipulates the spectator's perception. The performances are great, but it's a picture movie, even when the lighting is dark. There are some clichés throughout the movie, but the pacing helps to soften that. I really liked it.

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FRAMED

Games

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FRAMED is a multi-award winning noir-puzzle game where you re-arrange panels of an animated comic...

Abraham Polonsky: Interviews

Andrew Dickos

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Book

Abraham Polonsky (1910-1999), screenwriter and filmmaker of the mid-twentieth-century Left,...

Milleen (47 KP) rated Our House in Books

Jan 14, 2019

Our House

Louise Candlish | 2018 | Fiction & Poetry, Mystery, Thriller

6.3

(3 Ratings)

Book Rating

The Lawsons bought a house before the boom and are now sitting ‘asset rich’ in a leafy London suburb. Fi Lawson arrives home one afternoon to find her house has been sold and new people are moving in. Her estranged husband Bram has disappeared, and she is facing this chaos alone. Candlish opens with this almost farcical beginning and pulls you into the story. Things take a darker turn when Fi starts to relay her situation on a popular radio podcast. This timeline is spliced between paragraphs of a letter from Bram. As both sides of the story unfold and both characters think they know all the facts, this novel is an interesting twist on domestic noir. Thoroughly enjoyable.

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Danny Mulligan (31 KP) rated Altered Carbon in TV

Apr 12, 2020

Altered Carbon

2018 | Sci-Fi

8.0

(48 Ratings)

TV Show Rating

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More than 300 years in the future, society has been transformed by new technology, leading to human bodies being interchangeable and death no longer being permanent. Takeshi Kovacs is the only surviving soldier of a group of elite interstellar warriors who were defeated in an uprising against the new world order. His mind was imprisoned for centuries until impossibly wealthy businessman Laurens Bancroft offers him the chance to live again. Kovacs will have to do something for Bancroft, though, if he wants to be resurrected. Bancroft's request of Kovacs is to solve a murder -- Bancroft's. "Altered Carbon" is based on Richard K. Morgan's cyberpunk noir novel of the same name.