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...It’s the only one.In 2007, Johnson received the National Book Award for his six hundred-page Vietnam War epic, “Tree of Smoke.” Last year, he serialized “Nobody Move,” a self-proclaimed “noir novel,” in four parts—each corresponding to about 50 widely spaced pages—in “Playboy” magazine. At passing glance, the novel has all the trappings of a small joke told at the expense of a literary world that rushed...
...movies; there's a clique of Turner Classic Monastics who record, then trade, every premiere of an antique film on TCM. From its airing of films from the rowdy 1930-34 period, a new genre called pre-Code entered the FOOF phrase book along with auteur and film noir. To the faithful, TCM was the Lamborghini, the Mouton Rothschild, the very Callas of movie channels. Eventually, I got to see what all the rapture was about. And yes, it changed my life. (See TIME's list of the 100 most influential people in the world...
...such an elegant example of its kind; if it's comfort food, it's prime-grade meat loaf. Much credit goes to the sly scripts, overseen by Bruno Heller (HBO's Rome), which take the viewer to familiar places by clever routes, providing a jocular corrective to the relentless noir gore of CSI et al. The mysteries are engaging but not byzantine; you can probably figure out the culprit just a step before Jane does. And who doesn't want a handsome man to make him or her feel smart...
...that has been polluting the waters and sickening workers. It's nice to find a small-bore character drama with a big social agenda, and the play takes some intriguing allegorical and fanastical turns. It doesn't quite work, but Wallace may have opened up a new genre: environmental noir...
...American religion—namely, consumerism—one of its emblems pops up, neon-bright, just through his cab’s window. It’s a perfect moment; except, the scene ends what amounts to a 70-minute advertisement for Arcade Fire. “Miroir Noir,” Vincent Morisset’s new Arcade Fire concert film, combines scenes of the band’s performances and offstage antics with bits of found footage. The film is padded with fan testimonials, recorded on a hotline set up before the release...