Noir
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KILLER SOUP (Dir. Abhishek Chaubey, 2023, India)
* * * Abhishek Chaubey has remained brilliantly consistent and his last film Sonchiriya (2019), a dacoit Western with an ensemble cast, was an exceptional genre work that was under appreciated on its release. In many ways, Killer Soup instinctively revisits the multi narrative format of Chaubey’s Udta Punjab (2016) and makes for a devilishly Continue reading
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VOICI LE TEMPS DES ASSASSINS (Dir. Julien Duvivier, 1956, France) – Deadlier than the Male
* * * Danièle Delorme’s Catherine is a devilishly twisted take on the femme fatale but this isn’t strictly a noir in the traditional sense of the genre; more of a revenge thriller gone awry with Jean Gabin’s Andre as the target for their scorn. Julien Duvivier’s 1956 film Voici Le Temps Des Assassins (This Continue reading
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THE TWO JAKES (Dir. Jack Nicholson, 1990, US)
The Two Jakes is less a sequel and more of a flamboyant continuation and expansion of the sun kissed noir universe of Los Angeles that Polanski brought to life in Chinatown. Everyone knows a project of this type had no chance of working without the creative involvement of Robert Towne, Jack Nicholson and Robert Evans, Continue reading
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THE GOOD DIE YOUNG (Dir. Lewis Gilbert, 1954)
Released in 1954, Lewis Gilbert’s The Good Die Young, a neglected British-American hybrid noir, relates a post office robbery through a series of flashbacks in which we are introduced to the four central protagonists who collectively come to signify a masculinity in crisis; a new post war malaise. It is worth noting that Gilbert’s noir Continue reading
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NARROW MARGIN (Dir. Peter Hyams, 1990)
This uncomplicated hot garbage from solid genre filmmaker Peter Hyams who often gets overlooked in the oeuvre of competent Hollywood mainstream cinema plays more like an updating than a remake of Fleischer’s original 1950s noir. Hyams is careful not to stretch this out, steering clear of letting it become a two hour overcooked melodrama, which Continue reading
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