Category Archives: Film Noir

Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler: Why revisit the tormented tough guy of noir?

Posted on February 21, 2020 by Annemarie Lopez

“A yellow window hung here and there, all by itself, like the last orange.” Sylvia Miles as Mrs Florian and Robert Mitchum as Philip Marlowe in Farewell My Lovely 1975. Why would you choose to read Raymond Chandler’s classic LA … Continue reading →

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L’Avventura – Mysterious Disappearances in the Aeolian Islands

Posted on September 4, 2019 by Annemarie Lopez

Claudia looks down at the threatening sea around Lisca Bianca. Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960 film L’Avventura is a mystery, set in a wild and threatening Sicilian landscape, and in particular the Aeolian Islands, a small archipelago off the north east coast … Continue reading →

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