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Film Noir

Peter Strempel’s film noir reviews, some of which are lengthy essays on the genre itself.

This Gun for Hire (1942)

11 February 2021 Peter Strempel 0

Not the noir some claim, but an outstanding hybrid with a powerful performance from Ladd and impressive mises en scène.

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Dark Passage (1947) as locus of film noir

6 June 2016 Peter Strempel 0

Dark Passage is an extended metaphor for the anti-communist witch-hunting in the USA during the 1940s and ’50s.

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The Key Largo hypothesis: Brooks and Huston set the noir context

7 July 2014 Peter Strempel 0

My hypothesis that Huston’s Key Largo defined and limited the territory of film noir as exclusively American and subtly ‘New Deal’ political.

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The Killers (1946)

6 March 2010 Peter Strempel 0

Less Hemingway than Huston, the film is a landmark for Hellinger and Siodmak.

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Murder, My Sweet (1945)

6 March 2010 Peter Strempel 0

A worthy Chandler adaptation, and transition for Dick Powell from pretty boy to film tough guy.

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The Maltese Falcon (1941)

22 October 2009 Peter Strempel 0

The film in which Humphrey Bogart made the hard-boiled detective persona his own.

Features

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‘As if’ is not ‘what is’

13 January 2021 0
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Typography reveals more than just words

25 December 2020 0
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What does Nietzsche say to us today?

2 December 2020 0
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Switzer’s critique of ABC exposes Australian right as neo-fascists

5 March 2018 0
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The Vietnam War (2017): I

21 November 2017 0
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Underworld USA: America unimagined

24 December 2015 0
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The Key Largo hypothesis: Brooks and Huston set the noir context

7 July 2014 0
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Existentialism as philosophy of action

24 June 2012 0

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