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...know what kinds of movies the Brattle shows or don't realize that you can see a double feature there almost every day of the week. On the current calendar alone, there are weekly series ranging from "Cary Grant: The King of Romantic Comedy" to "Recent Raves" and "Neo-Noir...
...dramatically potent--differences aside, novelist Walter Mosley's creation is the truest heir we have yet had to Raymond Chandler's immortal Philip Marlowe. And writer-director Carl Franklin's cool, expert adaptation of Devil in a Blue Dress, Mosley's first novel, evokes the spirit of '40s film noir more effectively than any movie since Chinatown...
...Everybody light up! In indie films every character, it seems, puffs on a cigarette--as a tribute to the tortured heroes of film noir, a gesture of offhand rebellion, a sacrament of elegance and fatalism. There's an entire movie--quite a bad one, full of unwontedly tortured acting and a wildly wrong camera style--called Smoke. That in turn spawned a companion film, the much better Blue in the Face, to be released in the fall. Both revel in the outlaw ecstasies of tobacco...
Certain film genres never seem to lose their magical ability to entertain: the screwball romance, the film noir, and of course, the funny cop-dog movie. We laughed with Jim Belushi in "K-9," we cried with Tom Hanks in "Turner and Hooch," and this week we sweat with Chuck Norris in "Top Dog." What will the future bring? I've outlined a sketch for my own cop-dog script, which I plan to direct as soon as I can get financing...
...film career flounder. But with the release of "Kiss Of Death," Caruso's career, unfortunately, should take off. Directed by Barbet Schroeder ("Single White Female" and "Reversal of Fortune") and starring Caruso, Nicholas Cage and Samuel L. Jackson, "Kiss Of Death" is a powerful modern interpretation of film noir...