Dark Pictures Project

Noir is easily my favourite genre of film, it excites all my senses and even in the worst of the worst I can always find something worth appreciating. I’ve actually been working on this project for a while now, trying to see as many films from They Shoot Dark Pictures Don’t They? My focus has been primarily on the Top 250 list, but I’m also dipping into foreign noirs, noir precursors, neo-noir and “More American Noir” (especially Category A).

This blog will be an assembly of my journey through these films, slowly but surely. As I’ve already seen quite a few, the reviews will probably start off at quite a fast pace but will eventually slow down to a nice simmer. I hope you get some pleasure out of this, because it is a lot of fun for me! There really will be no consistency to the depth I go into with the reviews, for the most part I’ll probably expand my thoughts on films that really interest me, and have seen recently while those that I don’t particularly like, or have seen a while ago will be shorter. I am however working on rewatching the ones I feel I’m not in good form to evaluate because of the amount of time it’s been since my previous viewing.

This is a side project for my regular blog at House of Mirth and Movies, I may occasionally post reviews in two places (I already have a few posted there), but most of my noir related viewings will be focused here.

For those interested in the links:
They Shot Dark Pictures, Didn’t They? 250 Quintessential Noir Films
More American Noir Films
Noir Precursors
Neo-Noir/Modern Noir