FILM NOIR: FILMOGRAPHY                      TERM I. 2005-2006

Here is the schedule of films for my Film Noir course.    

 

1.2 Wednesday, 24 August 2005

5:00-7:00 p.m. 

100 minutes.                                            

Maltese Falcon (1941, John Houston) 

Film Maltese Falcon (1941, John Houston) Based on a novel by Dashiell Hammett.

Humphrey Bogart (Sam Spade) Mary Astor (Brigid             O'Shaughnessy), Gladys George (Iva Archer), Peter Lorre (Joel Cairo), Sydney Greenstreet (Casper Gutman).

MEDIA CENTER: PN 1997 M348 C.2

2.2 Wednesday, 31 August 2005

5:00-7:00 p.m.    

107 minutes.

Double Indemnity (1944, Billy Wilder)

Film Double Indemnity (1944, Billy Wilder) Based on a novel by James M. Cain.

Fred MacMurry (Walter Neff), Barbara Stanwyck (Phyllis Dietrichson), Edward G. Robinson (Barton Keyes).

MEDIA CENTER: PS 3505 A113 D69 198

3.2 Wednesday, 7 September 2005    

5:00 -7:00 p.m.

118 minutes.

The Big Sleep (1946, Howard Hawks)

Film: The Big Sleep (1946, Howard Hawks) Based on a novel by Raymond Chandler. Humphrey Bogart (Philip Marlowe), Lauren Bacall (Vivian Rutledge), Martha Vickers (Carmen Sternwood), John Ridgely (Eddie Mars), Louis Jean Heydt (Joe Brody), Theodore von Eltz (Geiger/blackmailer).          

[MEDIA CENTER: PN 1997 .B5928 1992]

4.2 Wednesday, 14 September 2005     

5:00 -7:00 p.m.

88 minutes.

Laura (1944, Otto Preminger)

Film Laura (1944, Otto Preminger) Based on a novel by Vera Casparay.

Gene Tierney (Laura Hunt), Dana Andrews (Mark McPherson), Clifton Webb (Waldo Lydecker), Vincent Price (Shelby Carpenter). MEDIA CENTER: PN1997 L377 1993

5.2 Wednesday, 21 September 2005     

5:00 -7:00 p.m.        

109 minutes.  

Gilda (1946, Charles Vidor)

Film Gilda (1946, Charles Vidor) Based on a story by E.A. Ellington.                       

Rita Hayworth (Gilda), Glenn Ford (Johnny), George Macready (Ballen), Joseph Calleia (Obregon).

MEDIA CENTER: PN 1997 G583 1986

6.2 Wednesday, 28 September 2005          

5:00 -7:00 p.m.

86 minutes.

The Lady from Shanghai (1948, Orson Wells)

Film The Lady from Shanghai (1948, Orson Wells) Freely adapted from a novel by Sherwood King.

Orson Wells (Michael O'Hara), Rita Hayworth (Elsa Bannister), Everett Sloane (Arthur Bannister), Glenn Anders (George Grisby).

MEDIA CENTER: PN 1997 L15 1991

7.2. Wednesday 4 October, 2005         

5:00 -7:00 p.m.                

111 minutes.      

Sunset Boulevard (1950, Billy Wilder) 

Film Sunset Boulevard (1950, Billy Wilder)

Gloria Swanson (Norma Desmond), William Holden (Joe Gillis), Erich von Stroheim (Max von Mayerling).

MEDIA CENTER:  PN 1997 S95

MODULE II 1.2 Wednesday, 19 October 2005

5:00 -7:00 p.m.     

131 minutes.

Chinatown (1974, Roman Polanski)

Film Chinatown (1974, Roman Polanski)

Jack Nicholson (Jake Gittes), Faye Dunaway (Mrs. Mulvey), John Huston (Noah Cross).

MEDIA CENTER: PN1997 C45

 

 

FILMOGRAPHY IN LIBRARY:

 

BLADE RUNNER (ORIGINAL VERSION)

PN 1997 B5297 1987

BLUE VELVET    

PN1997 B59

D.O.A. (DEAD ON ARRIVAL)  

PN 1997 D62 1989

FAREWELL, MY LOVELY     

PN 1997 F37 1985

FORCE OF EVIL             

PN 1997 F66 1987

KISS ME DEADLY         

PN 1997 K61 1991

LADY IN THE LAKE

PN 1997 L151 1991

SCARLET STREET

PN 1997 S32 1985  ??

TOUCH OF EVIL

PN 1997 T693 1987

 

 

ADDENDUM FOR FILM NOIR

 

SCARLET STREET (1945)

Director: Fritz Lang

plot: 30 35 Selby Dark City

 

LADY IN THE LAKE (1946) CLASSIC NOIR

Director: Robert Montgomery

104 minutes

Reading:

Williamson, Catherine, "You'll See It Just as I Saw It': Voyeurism, Fetishism, and the female Spectator in Lady in the Lake. 17-29 in Journal of Film and Video, 48, NO.3 (Fall 1966)

            ELECTRONIC RESERVE ????

 

OUT OF THE PAST (1947) CLASSIC NOIR

Director: Jacques Tourneur

   minutes

Jeff: Robert Mitchum, Whitt Sterling: Kirk Douglas, Kathie Moffet: Jane Greer, Joe Stephanos: Paul Valentine.

plot  65-70 in Selby Dark City

 

D.O.A.  (1950)

Director: Rudolph Maté

Frank Bigelow: Edmond O'Brien

plot: 88-93 in Selby Dark City

 

KISS ME DEADLY (1955)

Director: Robert Aldrich

105 minutes

Ralph Meeker, Albert Decker, Paul Stewart 

 

Reading:

Lang, Robert, (1988/1996) "Looking for the 'Geeat Whatzit': Kiss me Deadly and Film Noir, inR. Barton Palmer ed. Perspectives on Film Noir. New York: G.K. Hall and Co.

            [NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: PN 1995.9 .F54 P47 1996]

 

 

TOUCH OF EVIL (1958)  CLASSIC NOIR

Usually considered the last noir of the classic period.

Director: Orson Wells

111 minutes

Get DVD version with director's memo

 

BLADE RUNNER (1982) SCIENCE FICTION FILM NOIR

Director: Ridley Scott

CITY: L.A. 2019

get re-release version

            

THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE (2001)

Directors: Ethan and Joel Coen

running time:

Bill Bob Thornton