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    Restored “My Heart Is That Eternal Rose” at Metrograph

    Beginning this Thursday, March 22, NYC’s Metrograph Theater is presenting a restored version of “My Heart Is That Eternal Rose,” an important and influential 1989 Hong Kong action film. Go here for more details and ticket information. The film is directed by Patrick Tam, who began directing and editing films in 1980. He is regarded as the mentor of the great Wong Kar-Wai, and edited...

    “Resynator” Reconnects Daughter with Synth-Innovator Dad (SXSW)

    Alison Tavel had worked as a touring crew member for musicians Grace Potter, Beck, and Jenny Lewis and directed a handful of music videos ,when in her mid-twenties she decided to find out more about her late dad, who died just weeks after her birth. Don Tavel, she had been told, had invented the synthesizer! Her first discovery was that, no, Robert Moog is...
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    The Top 100 Film Noirs: #100 to #91

    Paste Magazine has just published their list of the best 100 film noir movies of all time. We were especially surprised by their choice...

    Film Noir and TCM

    One of the best sources of noir movies has always been Turner Classic Movies. Saturday nights at midnight the "Czar of Noir" Eddie Muller...

    Barry Forshaw on Crime Fiction

    Barry Forshaw is a British writer who specialises in crime fiction. He has written many books, including “British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia”, “The Rough...

    Streaming The Detectives

    Start your introduction to detective fiction by reading three classics of the genre and then comparing them to their best film adaptations, two of which are among the best of Film Noir.