Great Day of Noir Tomorrow
Flip on #TCM for noir all day until 8pm on January 11, 2013!
Great Capers on TCM in January
Tuesday’s in January feature Great Capers – including some great noir. Check it out!
All Barbara, All Night on TCM!
There is no such thing as too much Barbara Stanwyck. She’s so good when she’s bad. Tune in to @TCM tonight.
Great Night of Noir on 12/19! #TCM
Tune in to TCM on 12/19 at 8pm. It’s Barbara Stanwyck night!
AFI’s Catalog of Film Noir
Take a peek at the American Film Institute’s complete list of film noir from their catalog.
We Love Kirk Douglas Today and Every Day
Noir hero Kirk Douglas, is no ordinary man. Kirk Douglas today doubled his pledge to Los Angeles’s Skid Row to $10 million in support of homeless women, surprising even his wife, for whom he dedicated the pledge. See him in action with Barbara Stanwyck!
The Killing (1956)
The Killing (1956) is the second feature length film noir directed by Stanley Kubrick, written by Kubrick and Jim Thompson, based on the novel Clean Break by Lionel White. The noir features Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards and Elisha Cook Jr.
Roger Ebert recently gave it a great write-up as one his “Great Movies.”
Top 50 Film Noir – According to IMDB Voters
| Rank | Rating | Title | Votes |
| 1. | 8.6 | Sunset Blvd. (1950) | 78,527 |
| 2. | 8.5 | M (1931) | 56,971 |
| 3. | 8.5 | Double Indemnity (1944) | 54,255 |
| 4. | 8.4 | The Third Man (1949) | 68,386 |
| 5. | 8.4 | Witness for the Prosecution (1957) | 27,991 |
| 6. | 8.3 | The Maltese Falcon (1941) | 68,706 |
| 7. | 8.3 | Touch of Evil (1958) | 44,444 |
| 8. | 8.2 | Strangers on a Train (1951) | 51,078 |
| 9. | 8.2 | Rififi (1955) | 11,698 |
| 10. | 8.2 | Ace in the Hole (1951) | 10,822 |
| 11. | 8.2 | Notorious (1946) | 43,211 |
| 12. | 8.2 | The Big Sleep (1946) | 39,393 |
| 13. | 8.2 | White Heat (1949) | 13,080 |
| 14. | 8.2 | The Night of the Hunter (1955) | 36,501 |
| 15. | 8.1 | The Killing (1956) | 36,396 |
| 16. | 8.1 | Sweet Smell of Success (1957) | 12,377 |
| 17. | 8.1 | Laura (1944) | 18,818 |
| 18. | 8.1 | Out of the Past (1947) | 14,082 |
| 19. | 8.1 | Shadow of a Doubt (1943) | 28,865 |
| 20. | 8.0 | Night and the City (1950) | 4,852 |
| 21. | 8.0 | In a Lonely Place (1950) | 9,652 |
| 22. | 8.0 | The Big Heat (1953) | 9,825 |
| 23. | 7.9 | Key Largo (1948) | 19,036 |
| 24. | 7.9 | Mildred Pierce (1945) | 10,129 |
| 25. | 7.9 | The Asphalt Jungle (1950) | 11,566 |
| 26. | 7.9 | Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) | 10,780 |
| 27. | 7.9 | The Killers (1946) | 8,165 |
| 28. | 7.9 | Fury (1936) | 5,404 |
| 29. | 7.9 | Scarface (1932) | 12,807 |
| 30. | 7.9 | Pickup on South Street (1953) | 5,716 |
| 31. | 7.9 | Scarlet Street (1945) | 5,572 |
| 32. | 7.8 | Stray Dog (1949) | 7,139 |
| 33. | 7.8 | The Set-Up (1949) | 3,956 |
| 34. | 7.8 | Thieves’ Highway (1949) | 2,208 |
| 35. | 7.8 | Body and Soul (1947) | 2,138 |
| 36. | 7.8 | Gaslight (1944) | 10,268 |
| 37. | 7.8 | Gun Crazy (1950) | 4,663 |
| 38. | 7.8 | Odd Man Out (1947) | 3,663 |
| 39. | 7.8 | Nightmare Alley (1947) | 3,356 |
| 40. | 7.8 | The Narrow Margin (1952) | 3,064 |
| 41. | 7.8 | The Woman in the Window (1944) | 5,436 |
| 42. | 7.7 | Gilda (1946) | 12,361 |
| 43. | 7.7 | The Lady from Shanghai (1947) | 11,398 |
| 44. | 7.7 | The Naked City (1948) | 4,905 |
| 45. | 7.7 | Kiss Me Deadly (1955) | 8,738 |
| 46. | 7.7 | The Letter (1940) | 5,224 |
| 47. | 7.7 | Brute Force (1947) | 3,424 |
| 48. | 7.7 | Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) | 3,065 |
| 49. | 7.7 | The Big Clock (1948) | 3,304 |
| 50. | 7.7 | Spellbound (1945) | 20,129 |
And a great counterpoint by Eddie Muller
Cause for Alarm (1951)
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