Our friends at The Projection Booth Podcast discuss V. I. Warshawski (1991)! “Noirvember 2025 keeps rolling as Mike teams up with author Dahlia Schweitzer and artist Rahne Alexander to crack open V.I. Warshawski (1991), Jeff Kanew’s glossy take on Sara Paretsky’s groundbreaking detective. Kathleen Turner commands the screen […]
At Letterboxd, Marya E. Gates shares 20 noir featured directed by women for your Noirvember viewing pleasure. See the list here.
This year, I have actually received “for your consideration” emails from publicists. They are emails asking you to add a particular film to your year end lists, or if you are fancy enough, to vote for the films in various awards. All these emails were promoting Hundreds of […]
Now on YouTube–Surreal Noir by friend of the Gutter Kate Laity! In this episode she extensively discusses Otto Preminger’s Laura (1944) and Vera Caspary’s 1943 novel. “Episode Two: Surreal portraiture—-Muse or artist? Can you fall in love with a picture? Can you fall in love with someone from […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden isn’t available this week. Maybe she’s tracking down leads. Maybe she’s lying on a cot in some tattered hotel watching the ceiling fan and thinking about the fallibility of human nature. Maybe she’s looking for answers at the bottom of a tumbler of […]
The Gutter’s own Carol has some thoughts on The Other Laurens (2024), the new Belgian neo-noir from Claude Schmitz with a strong 1970s neo-noir vibe! Read the mostly spoiler-free thoughts here.
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