Paul C. Dobbs
@steadytiger.bsky.social
Living on Sydney Greenstreet
Haunted by Ida Lupino
Wants to be a Brontë
송강호는 내 부조종사다
Haunted by Ida Lupino
Wants to be a Brontë
송강호는 내 부조종사다
Guilty Bystander (1950) is a Criterion Blackout Noir, and you do wonder how much of it Zachary Scott will remember when it’s all over. He’s after his missing son, but still on a right old bender, stoically declining drinks here, greedily chugging them there, fumes coming off him through the screen
November 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Guilty Bystander (1950) is a Criterion Blackout Noir, and you do wonder how much of it Zachary Scott will remember when it’s all over. He’s after his missing son, but still on a right old bender, stoically declining drinks here, greedily chugging them there, fumes coming off him through the screen
Scott Walker on the cover of No Regrets, shirt off, chugging a tin of Newkie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Scott Walker on the cover of No Regrets, shirt off, chugging a tin of Newkie Brown
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Bad Day At Black Rock (1955) A train stops in a podunk town & a stranger steps off. They don't care too much for strangers round there
Spencer Tracy is the one-armed man who, almost despite himself, is going to get to the bottom of things, assuming that he doesn't get killed in the process
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Spencer Tracy is the one-armed man who, almost despite himself, is going to get to the bottom of things, assuming that he doesn't get killed in the process
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November 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Bad Day At Black Rock (1955) A train stops in a podunk town & a stranger steps off. They don't care too much for strangers round there
Spencer Tracy is the one-armed man who, almost despite himself, is going to get to the bottom of things, assuming that he doesn't get killed in the process
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Spencer Tracy is the one-armed man who, almost despite himself, is going to get to the bottom of things, assuming that he doesn't get killed in the process
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Peter Pan (1953). Was going to use this in a tweens class I have to do, but I’m glad I watched it through first. A sordid work of racist caricatures & violent sexual jealousy. Tinker Bell is as gaudy and treacherous as any noir tramp. Think I’ll play it safe with something from Disney’s woke period
November 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Peter Pan (1953). Was going to use this in a tweens class I have to do, but I’m glad I watched it through first. A sordid work of racist caricatures & violent sexual jealousy. Tinker Bell is as gaudy and treacherous as any noir tramp. Think I’ll play it safe with something from Disney’s woke period
I've been listening to this practically since it came out (big thanks to parents there) and I still can't get over it. The lyrics are unbearably sad on paper, and even more so coming through those golden pipes. Peak 70s production too. A masterpiece
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youtu.be/YarvI9eCa8Q?...
Goodbye To Love
YouTube video by The Carpenters - Topic
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November 22, 2025 at 6:35 AM
I've been listening to this practically since it came out (big thanks to parents there) and I still can't get over it. The lyrics are unbearably sad on paper, and even more so coming through those golden pipes. Peak 70s production too. A masterpiece
youtu.be/YarvI9eCa8Q?...
youtu.be/YarvI9eCa8Q?...
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Horrors are merely described but not seen, dead sled dogs the only corpses on show, and James Arness's shadowy planet trekking space carrot is largely unseen; Nyby/Hawks lets the audiences imaginations do the heavy lifting and it works a treat. My Letterboxd review... #FilmSky boxd.it/bN3sxd
A ★★★★½ review of The Thing from Another World (1951)
Christian Nyby's (side-eye...) sci-fi classic; 87 delicious Hawksian minutes, with not an ounce of fat on display. It's all there; dialogue has never overlapped as entertainingly as this, Kenneth Tobe...
boxd.it
November 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Horrors are merely described but not seen, dead sled dogs the only corpses on show, and James Arness's shadowy planet trekking space carrot is largely unseen; Nyby/Hawks lets the audiences imaginations do the heavy lifting and it works a treat. My Letterboxd review... #FilmSky boxd.it/bN3sxd
- He wanted to kill you
- It would have hurt less that way
Framed (1947), a Criterion Blackout Noir. The jaw-dropping opening gets its hooks into you toot sweet. It looks like trucker noir, almost becomes The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, then settles into classic sucker-getting-played-by-bad-girl
- It would have hurt less that way
Framed (1947), a Criterion Blackout Noir. The jaw-dropping opening gets its hooks into you toot sweet. It looks like trucker noir, almost becomes The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, then settles into classic sucker-getting-played-by-bad-girl
November 21, 2025 at 8:31 AM
- He wanted to kill you
- It would have hurt less that way
Framed (1947), a Criterion Blackout Noir. The jaw-dropping opening gets its hooks into you toot sweet. It looks like trucker noir, almost becomes The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, then settles into classic sucker-getting-played-by-bad-girl
- It would have hurt less that way
Framed (1947), a Criterion Blackout Noir. The jaw-dropping opening gets its hooks into you toot sweet. It looks like trucker noir, almost becomes The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, then settles into classic sucker-getting-played-by-bad-girl
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Un autre @zachweinersmith.bsky.social pour la route ?
November 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Un autre @zachweinersmith.bsky.social pour la route ?
“Three miles out of town and six feet down. All alone. With nobody to lie to.”
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950). Michael Atkinson called Barbara Payton childlike, yet “the most chillingly dangerous of noir actresses.” You can see what he means. She’s fragile as glass until she isn’t. Then she’s lethal
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950). Michael Atkinson called Barbara Payton childlike, yet “the most chillingly dangerous of noir actresses.” You can see what he means. She’s fragile as glass until she isn’t. Then she’s lethal
November 20, 2025 at 8:02 AM
“Three miles out of town and six feet down. All alone. With nobody to lie to.”
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950). Michael Atkinson called Barbara Payton childlike, yet “the most chillingly dangerous of noir actresses.” You can see what he means. She’s fragile as glass until she isn’t. Then she’s lethal
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950). Michael Atkinson called Barbara Payton childlike, yet “the most chillingly dangerous of noir actresses.” You can see what he means. She’s fragile as glass until she isn’t. Then she’s lethal
There's confidence, then there's thinking you know more about looking good than Gene Simmons
Ridiculous.
Gene Tierney by Frank Powolny.
November 20, 2025 at 5:43 AM
There's confidence, then there's thinking you know more about looking good than Gene Simmons
Deadline at Dawn (1946), is another Criterion Blackout Noir. A dizzying New York story with a maze of characters and an unguessable ending. Everyone talks like a philosopher, and no one seems quite real, but it is very assuredly done, and it works like a dream
November 18, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Deadline at Dawn (1946), is another Criterion Blackout Noir. A dizzying New York story with a maze of characters and an unguessable ending. Everyone talks like a philosopher, and no one seems quite real, but it is very assuredly done, and it works like a dream
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#Noirvember challenge: Favorite #FilmNoir duo is Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet. They were in nine movies together. A favorite is Three Strangers (1946) with Geraldine Fitzgerald. They share a lucky lottery ticket. One person places their plans to get rich quick in peril. Warner Bros.
November 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
#Noirvember challenge: Favorite #FilmNoir duo is Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet. They were in nine movies together. A favorite is Three Strangers (1946) with Geraldine Fitzgerald. They share a lucky lottery ticket. One person places their plans to get rich quick in peril. Warner Bros.
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Compulsion (1959), The Boston Strangler (1968), & 10 Rillington Place (1971), 3 true(-ish) crime dramas from prolific director Richard Fleischer
All graced by brilliant central performances, all slightly lopsided plots-wise & collectively a portrait of what does & doesn't date a movie
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All graced by brilliant central performances, all slightly lopsided plots-wise & collectively a portrait of what does & doesn't date a movie
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November 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Compulsion (1959), The Boston Strangler (1968), & 10 Rillington Place (1971), 3 true(-ish) crime dramas from prolific director Richard Fleischer
All graced by brilliant central performances, all slightly lopsided plots-wise & collectively a portrait of what does & doesn't date a movie
1/15
All graced by brilliant central performances, all slightly lopsided plots-wise & collectively a portrait of what does & doesn't date a movie
1/15
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Gloria Grahame by Otto Ludwig Bettmann (1940s)
November 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Gloria Grahame by Otto Ludwig Bettmann (1940s)
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The Lamps of DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) 💡 #NoirLamps
November 17, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The Lamps of DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) 💡 #NoirLamps
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a few brief thoughts on Roberto Rossellini's Fear (1954)
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A ★★★ review of Fear (1954)
One of three (!) films Roberto Rossellini released in 1954 starring then-wife Ingrid Bergman. Unlike the cinematic modernism of Journey to Italy, this German-Italian production looks to the past, and ...
letterboxd.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:48 AM
a few brief thoughts on Roberto Rossellini's Fear (1954)
letterboxd.com/jamesewand/f...
letterboxd.com/jamesewand/f...
“Only a moment of bliss? Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of a man's life?"
White Nights (1957). A fairytale of love and loneliness, hopelessly romantic, but with a foot in the gutter. The story is familiar, but told in a way that makes no sense at all unless you give in to dream logic
White Nights (1957). A fairytale of love and loneliness, hopelessly romantic, but with a foot in the gutter. The story is familiar, but told in a way that makes no sense at all unless you give in to dream logic
November 16, 2025 at 10:06 AM
“Only a moment of bliss? Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of a man's life?"
White Nights (1957). A fairytale of love and loneliness, hopelessly romantic, but with a foot in the gutter. The story is familiar, but told in a way that makes no sense at all unless you give in to dream logic
White Nights (1957). A fairytale of love and loneliness, hopelessly romantic, but with a foot in the gutter. The story is familiar, but told in a way that makes no sense at all unless you give in to dream logic
On a Saturday night like this six months ago The Holy Smokes played their last ever show. We weren't the tightest band in the world, but we had beans
November 15, 2025 at 11:46 AM
On a Saturday night like this six months ago The Holy Smokes played their last ever show. We weren't the tightest band in the world, but we had beans
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November 14, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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If you, like @criterion.bsky.social, are searching for more #BlackoutNoir this #Noirvember, we’ve got a doozy of a scene breakdown for you!
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Putting Us In Their Shoes: MOONTIDE
This montage from Moontide sees Bobo (Jean Gabin) through a night of drinking . . . and the morning after.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:52 AM
If you, like @criterion.bsky.social, are searching for more #BlackoutNoir this #Noirvember, we’ve got a doozy of a scene breakdown for you!
shotzero.substack.com/p/putting-us...
shotzero.substack.com/p/putting-us...
Is anything noirer than a blackout? Than not knowing what you’ve done, or what you’re going to get for it? Blackout Noir is a brilliantly conceived programme on Criterion, thanks to @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social & @glennkenny.bsky.social. And Black Angel (1946) is aces, it really sucker punched me
November 13, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Is anything noirer than a blackout? Than not knowing what you’ve done, or what you’re going to get for it? Blackout Noir is a brilliantly conceived programme on Criterion, thanks to @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social & @glennkenny.bsky.social. And Black Angel (1946) is aces, it really sucker punched me
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Gene Tierney photographed by John Rawlings for VOGUE (1946)
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Gene Tierney photographed by John Rawlings for VOGUE (1946)
Got a tenner on this cat being the 29th incarnation of Buddha
November 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Got a tenner on this cat being the 29th incarnation of Buddha
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Giving a lecture on the drafts of The Waste Land tomorrow and all the strange and haunting lines that Eliot and Pound decided to cut
November 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Giving a lecture on the drafts of The Waste Land tomorrow and all the strange and haunting lines that Eliot and Pound decided to cut