So there comes another strike by professional collaborators team Alain Silver and James Ursini, two critics, collectors and authors of books and journals on movie directors, film industry, and Film-Noir in particular. By their mere output, the two authors today form part of the canon of modern Film-Noir appreciation. The reader then is confronted with the […]
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Month: December 2012
SOULFOOD. Food & Music. Fat & Yummy (+ CD)
Now, I would generally disagree with anybody who wanted to convince me of the crucial interrelatedness of a certain style of music and the corresponding style of cooking to complement the music. Suppose Mozart grew up eating not the fluffy pastry so typical of certain regions of Austria, but instead, let’s say smoked salmon and […]
Out of the Shadows: Expanding the Canon of Classic Film Noir by Gene D. Phillips (2011)
Since the last two years saw an enormous wave of reissues of vintage crime novels – mostly out of print and now hard to find hard-boiled mystery – often being the source document for movies of the film-noir genre, it is not at all surprising to witness a growing interest in the movies of that […]