Film Noir

[Deleted member 612]

I'm getting addicted to Film Noir. Watched The Big Sleep last night and I was blasted by the dialogue: no cursing, no swearing, but the dialogue was so fast and sharp it blowed out many modern gangster movies. And this with the low tech of that time (1946), there was a lot of vignette in most scenes, and since I use a high contrast shader this literally made like 1/3 of the screen covered in black, forcing you to focus on the center of the screen. This hooked me for the entire movie, and for the first time in months I finished a near two hour movie in a single session.
Now I'm having some hard time digging these movies. Most of them seems to be lost. If anyone know of a platform that specializes in it, please share. I downloaded Le Corbeau from the internet archive, dont know if it is any good, the rip seems to be low quality.

 

[rentré]

Low-brow genre of detectives, is it not?

Bleak crime fiction was a staple on American radio at the time, with shows like Suspense and The Whistler occupying "prime time" slots, and due to popularity this spilled over into cinema.

Anyway, I picked up reading The House Without A Key on a random and since the author is Harvard-educated I might stick with it.

But movies, fuck that shit. Seriously.

 

[Deleted member 612]

Feels so good to go into the opposite direction of the latest thing.