Noirvember 2023
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- DirectorRichard WilliamsStarsStanley BaxterA private detective seduced by a femme fatale is on his last mint.1 November
- DirectorRichard WilliamsStarsStanley BaxterA private detective escapes a tight encounter with gangsters thanks to a Tic Tac mint.1 November
- DirectorRichard WilliamsStarsStanley BaxterA private detective escapes a tight encounter with gangsters thanks to a Tic Tac mint.1 November. Placeholder for another commercial.
- DirectorRichard WilliamsStarsStanley BaxterA private detective escapes a tight encounter with gangsters thanks to a Tic Tac mint.1 November. Placeholder for another commercial.
- DirectorAndrew MorahanEric WatsonStarsChris LowePet Shop BoysNeil TennantMusic video for "West End Girls" by the Pet Shop Boys.5 November. A very noirish music video and lyrics of a song also came to Neil Tennant while he was falling asleep watching some unknown film noir.
- DirectorCarl FranklinStarsJim CaviezelMorgan FreemanAshley JuddA successful lawyer's husband is arrested for murdering nine villagers in El Salvador in 1988 as a US soldier under a different name. She decides to defend him in military court and find out the truth about what happened.7 November: A tight and underrated neo-noir.
- DirectorJoaquim Dos SantosKemp PowersJustin K. ThompsonStarsShameik MooreHailee SteinfeldBrian Tyree HenryMiles Morales catapults across the multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. When the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles must redefine what it means to be a hero.10 November: While not as much as in the first movie, Spider-Man Noir is present, so I decided to count this technically. Also some of the universes, including a dystopian one are rather noirish.
- DirectorNicholas RayStarsHumphrey BogartGloria GrahameFrank LovejoyA potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.11 November: First classic noir of this Noirvember had to be something classic and great, so it is. It's Humphrey Bogart. It's meta. It's so much with so little.
- DirectorW. Lee WilderStarsAlbert DekkerCatherine CraigCharles DrakeBanker Kenneth Holden (Albert Dekker) steals funds from an estate and decides to marry the heiress, Claire Worthington (Catherine Craig), to safeguard his position. He arranges for her fiancé to be killed but does not state the fiancé's name. Claire, meanwhile, has a change of heart and marries Holden, so he now becomes the target of the killer and attempts to cancel the deal--except he doesn't know who the hired killer is.12 November: A practically obscure and seriously great noir from the classic period (1941-1958) of the genre.
- DirectorSydney PollackStarsTom CruiseJeanne TripplehornGene HackmanA young lawyer joins a prestigious law firm only to discover that it has a sinister dark side.16 November: A really underrated movie, both on its own and as a neo-noir, of which it has all the elements. The cast is exceptional.
- DirectorAnthony MinghellaStarsMatt DamonGwyneth PaltrowJude LawIn late 1950s New York, a young underachiever named Tom Ripley is sent to Italy to retrieve Dickie Greenleaf, a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy. But when the errand fails, Ripley takes extreme measures.16 November: Simply very good.
- DirectorFrank DarabontStarsTom HanksMichael Clarke DuncanDavid MorseA tale set on death row, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the lead guard, Paul Edgecombe, recognizes John's gift, he tries to help stave off the condemned man's execution.17 November: It never quite occurred to me just how much Frank Darabont's directorial style is informed by noir.
- DirectorNick GrindeStarsRochelle HudsonFrieda InescortJune LangJobless Betty Andrews, although innocent, is convicted of a department store theft and, despite the best efforts of her lawyer and noted social worker Mary Ellis and a reporter, Jim Brent on her behalf, is sentenced to a year in the Curtiss House of Correction. Chief Matron Brackett rules with an iron hand with the aid of inmates Frankie Mason, "The Duchess" and Nita Lavore. One of the inmates commits suicide and a subsequent story by Jim on the prison conditions leads to Mary Ellis being made the supervisor of the prison. When ten girls are allowed to go home for Thanksgiving under the promise of returning by eleven p.m., Frankie and "The Duchess", angry over losing the privileges given them by the departed Matron Brackett, arrange to have Betty kidnapped so she can not return at the appointed time. Another of the girls telephones Jim and he finds Betty a prisoner at a deserted roadhouse...30 November: Very brutal and uncompromising for 1940 and Hayes code still being there. Minimalist and very effective proto-noir with true noir being just around the corner.