Coldest Stories Ever Told

 by Rosalie Lewis

"In the Noirvember movie milieu, the characters fall into two separate yet equally important groups: the detectives who investigate crime and the lost souls or heartless dames that perpetrate them. These are their stories. (dun dun)"

Born to be Murdered: Revisiting THE THIRD MAN

 by Rosalie Lewis

This past summer, a work trip took me to Munich for a few days and I decided to tack on a few personal days at the end to explore the Austrian cities of Salzburg and Vienna as well. I was curious about these places for the regular touristy reasons, but if I’m being honest the real motivation was movies.

An Ode to Noirvember

 by Rosalie Lewis

Dear #ScaryMovieMonth,
It’s been fun, don’t get me wrong, but we both knew this wasn’t meant to last. The leaves have fallen, the Spirits have closed, and it’s just about time to wind those clocks backward to the 1940s when shadows contained gunmen, not ghouls. The stage is set for someone new, someone dangerous, someone duplicitous to take the spotlight for the next 30 days. So take a bow, au revoir til next year.

It’s #Noirvember, baby.

Noirvember 2021: Wake Up, Neo

 by Rosalie Lewis

If we were doing a free association exercise like they do in The Dark Mirror, which I just happened to watch today, and I said “Neo,” what would come to mind for you? Well, if I were playing this little game with myself, which wouldn’t make a lot of sense, I’d think of three things:

The Lineup: A Summary of My Noirvember Week One Viewing

by Rosalie Lewis

There’s a rumor going around that I like film noir. I don’t know who started it, but I’m here to tell you not a word of it is a lie. That’s why November has become one of my favorite months--because to classic film fans, it’s known as Noirvember.

Choose Your Own Noirvember

by Rosalie Lewis

We wrapped up #ScaryMovieMonth a little over a week ago, and now we’re on to a month of celebrating films of another type: #Noirvember, started ten years ago by the lovely Marya Gates (formerly of Filmstruck, currently of Netflix). I’ve loved seeing new converts to this celebration of all things film noir (both classic and neo varieties), but sometimes it can be hard to narrow down the viewing options. So to help solve this problem, and because frankly I can’t stop myself from writing about this genre, I’ve devised a little viewing guide/choose your own adventure extravaganza.