East Bay Express film reviewer Kelly Vance joins us to talk about the "Now Playing" feature on filmnoirfoundation.org, a newly added guide to noir-tinged movie and streaming news. We also round up a bunch of great classic noir releases on Blu-ray in the last few years from specialty outlets who've all been releasing terrific films mostly unavailable on home video before now:
-- KL Studio Classics: Pitfall, 99 River Street, Cry Of The City, Deadline USA. Hollow Triumph, Boomerang, The Woman In The Window, He Ran All The Way, Roadhouse, I Wake Up Screaming, The Chase, A Kiss Before Dying, I Walk Alone, The Taking of Pelham 123
-- Olive: Cry Danger, Try And Get Me, The Big Combo, Body And Soul, Plunder Road, Crashout, Odds Against Tomorrow
-- Flicker Alley: Too Late For Tears, Woman on the Run, The Man Who Cheated Himself
-- VCI: The Prowler, New York Confidential (DVD only)
-- ClassicFlix: T-Men, Raw Deal, He Walked By Night, You Only Live Once
-- Cohen Film Collection: Jamaica Inn, Sudden Fear
-- Twilight Time: Kiss Of Death, Inferno 3D
-- Warner Archive: Gun Crazy
Follow the FNF's Now Playing listings here: http://filmnoirfoundation.org/now-playing.html
Please send us any feedback you have on our show to podcast@filmnoirfoundation.org, and rate/review us on iTunes.
Music: Themes from The Prowler, 99 River Street, Pitfall, Plunder Road, Deadline USA
Dialogue from New York Confidential, with Anne Bancroft, Richard Conte, and Broderick Crawford.
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East Bay Express film reviewer Kelly Vance joins us to talk about the "Now Playing" feature on filmnoirfoundation.org, a newly added guide to noir-tinged movie and streaming news. We also round up a bunch of great classic noir releases on Blu-ray in the last few years from specialty outlets who've all been releasing terrific films mostly unavailable on home video before now:
-- KL Studio Classics: Pitfall, 99 River Street, Cry Of The City, Deadline USA. Hollow Triumph, Boomerang, The Woman In The Window, He Ran All The Way, Roadhouse, I Wake Up Screaming, The Chase, A Kiss Before Dying, I Walk Alone, The Taking of Pelham 123
-- Olive: Cry Danger, Try And Get Me, The Big Combo, Body And Soul, Plunder Road, Crashout, Odds Against Tomorrow
-- Flicker Alley: Too Late For Tears, Woman on the Run, The Man Who Cheated Himself
-- VCI: The Prowler, New York Confidential (DVD only)
-- ClassicFlix: T-Men, Raw Deal, He Walked By Night, You Only Live Once
-- Cohen Film Collection: Jamaica Inn, Sudden Fear
-- Twilight Time: Kiss Of Death, Inferno 3D
-- Warner Archive: Gun Crazy
Follow the FNF's Now Playing listings here: http://filmnoirfoundation.org/now-playing.html
Please send us any feedback you have on our show to podcast@filmnoirfoundation.org, and rate/review us on iTunes.
Music: Themes from The Prowler, 99 River Street, Pitfall, Plunder Road, Deadline USA
Dialogue from New York Confidential, with Anne Bancroft, Richard Conte, and Broderick Crawford.
Ep 4: Edith Head - When Facts Become Fiction, with Vince and Rosemarie Keenan
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8 years ago
Ep 4: Edith Head - When Facts Become Fiction, with Vince and Rosemarie Keenan
The co-authors of the classic Hollywood mysteries "Design For Dying" and "Dangerous To Know" join us to talk noir, costume design, and mystery writing. We start with their appearance at NOIR CITY Hollywood to introduce This Gun For Hire (2:30), as well as some of this year's movies at their hometown festival of NOIR CITY Seattle, including The Taking Of Pelham 123 and The Ladykillers (4:00). We also discuss the editing and production of the Film Noir Foundation's NOIR CITY e-magazine, where Vince is the co-managing editor (13:20), plus Vince's long-running "Cocktails And Crime" e-magazine column (17:45).
Then it's on to legendary costume designer Edith Head. We talk about the Keenans' e-magazine article exploring her career and her work on film noir (21:00), her partnerships with Alfred Hitchcock and Grace Kelly (28:20), plus her work designing clothes for the Academy Awards and for Bette Davis (32:10).
Edith Head co-stars in the Keenans' books written under the pseudonym Renee Patrick. We discuss the origins of writing mystery novels centered around costume design in classic Hollywood, plus Edith's partner in fighting crime, Lillian Frost (37:40). Then we talk about the mechanics of mystery writing (where Vince explains the term "pantser") (43:50), choosing the books' titles (46:50), some of the amazing true Hollywood stories and real-life people who appear throughout the novels (51:00), inventing names for a fictional movie studio and some particularly entertaining fake movie titles (1:05:40), and what's next for Lillian and Edith in more novels to come (1:12:55).
Contribute to the FNF to receive a year-long subscription to the quarterly NOIR CITY e-magazine: http://www.filmnoirfoundation.org/noircityemag.html
More information on the Renee Patrick novels at their website reneepatrickbooks.com, including the origin of the pseudonym here: http://reneepatrickbooks.com/blog/faq-3
Design For Dying: https://www.amazon.com/Design-Dying-Lillian-Frost-Edith/dp/0765381842/
Dangerous To Know: https://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Know-Lillian-Frost-Edith/dp/0765381869/
Vince's classic cocktail book "Down The Hatch" is available on Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Down-Hatch-Odyssey-Through-Cocktail-ebook/dp/B00FIU1IQC/
Please send us feedback on the podcast at podcast@filmnoirfoundation.org.
Music: Themes from The Sniper (by George Antheil), Double Indemnity (Miklos Rozsa), The Ladykillers (Tristram Cary), and Rear Window (Franz Waxman).
Edith Head's narration from the Motion Picture Academy short film "The Costume Designer": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCmXDnneSlg
NOIR TALK
East Bay Express film reviewer Kelly Vance joins us to talk about the "Now Playing" feature on filmnoirfoundation.org, a newly added guide to noir-tinged movie and streaming news. We also round up a bunch of great classic noir releases on Blu-ray in the last few years from specialty outlets who've all been releasing terrific films mostly unavailable on home video before now:
-- KL Studio Classics: Pitfall, 99 River Street, Cry Of The City, Deadline USA. Hollow Triumph, Boomerang, The Woman In The Window, He Ran All The Way, Roadhouse, I Wake Up Screaming, The Chase, A Kiss Before Dying, I Walk Alone, The Taking of Pelham 123
-- Olive: Cry Danger, Try And Get Me, The Big Combo, Body And Soul, Plunder Road, Crashout, Odds Against Tomorrow
-- Flicker Alley: Too Late For Tears, Woman on the Run, The Man Who Cheated Himself
-- VCI: The Prowler, New York Confidential (DVD only)
-- ClassicFlix: T-Men, Raw Deal, He Walked By Night, You Only Live Once
-- Cohen Film Collection: Jamaica Inn, Sudden Fear
-- Twilight Time: Kiss Of Death, Inferno 3D
-- Warner Archive: Gun Crazy
Follow the FNF's Now Playing listings here: http://filmnoirfoundation.org/now-playing.html
Please send us any feedback you have on our show to podcast@filmnoirfoundation.org, and rate/review us on iTunes.
Music: Themes from The Prowler, 99 River Street, Pitfall, Plunder Road, Deadline USA
Dialogue from New York Confidential, with Anne Bancroft, Richard Conte, and Broderick Crawford.
