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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · Jan 15

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Lyrics from Petula Clark’s “Downtown”:

“Don't hang around and let your problems surround you
There are movie shows/
Downtown”

The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · 3d

LOL my first thought was hey that’s the lamp from LAURA… then realized yes, that’s because this is an actual screenshot of LAURA. I see lamps before I see actors!

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · 6d

This movie! 💥 ⁉️

Michael Sharp
PRO
THE AMERICAN
SOLDIER
The American Soldier 1970
***½
Watched Oct 7, 2025
If you don't make out in tragic slow motion with your brother's corpse on the floor of a train station locker room while your mom watches are you even noir?
Strictly for unrepentant postwar melancholics who drink their Ballantine's straight from the bottle.
[sidenote: There is an uncanny moment in this movie where a maid sits on the edge of a bed and starts telling a story and about twenty seconds in I'm like "I know this story ... this ... this is the plot of ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL (a *later* Fassbinder film, what the actual fuck?)]

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · 6d

“Don’t mind me, just sucking down this scotch before I murder you…”

The Lamps of THE AMERICAN SOLDIER (d. Fassbinder, 1970) 💡

Man sits on couch drinking scotch straight from the bottle. Woman in extreme foreground

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · 6d

The Lamps of THE AMERICAN SOLDIER (d. Fassbinder, 1970) 💡

Man leans in bathroom doorway, perhaps contemplating bath. There’s a little table lamp behind him

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · 6d

The Lamps of THE AMERICAN SOLDIER (d. Fassbinder, 1970) 💡

Men playing cards with gaudy spherical lamp overhead

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · 14d

Being a noir completist has its (sometimes considerable) downsides

Michael Sharp
PRO
CHINA MOON
China Moon 1994
**;
Watched Sep 29, 2025
Put every noir you've ever seen in a blender. Turn it on. Turn it off. Serve. CHINA MOON!
The damn movie opens with:
Rain-slicked streets at night
Neon signs
A motel
Sex in a motel
Saxy night jazz noir music
Louvered blinds
A P.l. taking photos through those blinds
Just checking all the boxes on the Noir checklist, ripping off everything from DOUBLE INDEMNITY to THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE to BODY HEAT to PURPLE NOON/The Talented Mr. Ripley (book) along the way. I laugh-shout-watched this thing. Kind of a fun hour and a half if you watch it with the appropriate derision. Featuring an adorable and very young Benicio Del Toro
(I watched this 'cause it's noir, I hadn't seen it, and it's leaving Criterion Oct 1)

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · Sep 12

The Lamps of BREWSTER MCCLOUD (1970) 💡

Shelley Duvall on phone next to insanely colorful table lamp w/ nightmare-fuel B&W wallpaper in background: “He thinks he can fly,”

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 19d

Death Carries an Amazing Giant White Flip Phone

(DEATH CARRIES A CANE, 1973) #GialloStyle

Blonde woman on giant white flip phone, (1973)

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 25d

In defense of bad movies … or one bad movie, anyway … ❤️

boxd.it/b6fsIR

Michael Sharp
PRO
The Cat o' Nine Tails 1971
TE
CAT • NINE
TAILS
Watched Sep 17, 2025
This move does not deserve three stars and might not even deserve two stars but it's a Dario Argento giallo starring Karl Malden as a blind crossword constructor and there's a cat
on the
poster (which hangs over my desk in my office) so I don't care if it's not technically "good," if there's way too little violence, if the plot makes no sense and is essentially without suspense-the movie was clearly made for me, specifically, so l am ride or die. If die, so be it.
(Tubi-though I'm def buying the Blu-ray)

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · Sep 12

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Michael Sharp
PRO
BREWSTER MCCLOUD
Brewster McCloud 1970
** *½
Watched Sep 11, 2025
Sally Kellerman in a red Gremlin fucking with the cops. Sally Kellerman naked with little designs on her back where wings should be. Sally Kellerman marching dramatically out of the Astrodome with a raven on her arm, going back to whatever avian kingdom they came from. And every violent abusive asshole in Houston gets killed by literal bird shit. If ever a movie had Everything, it's this movie.

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · Sep 12

The Lamps of BREWSTER MCCLOUD (1970) 💡

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · Sep 12

The Lamps of BREWSTER MCCLOUD (1970) 💡

Shelley Duvall removing her jacket near a very colorful overhead lampshade

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · Sep 9

Completing the Pakula/Willis “Paranoia Trilogy” 🙏

Michael Sharp
PRO
The Parallax View 1974
½
THE PARALLAX VIEW
Watched Sep 8, 2025
There's about 15 min of this movie where it feels like a pacific NW version of "The Dukes of Hazzard" or "Smokey & the Bandit" —extended bar fights, high-speed car chases, local sheriffs, what not. It's completely off from the tone of the rest of the movie. I loved it.
This movie is like a trial run for Pakula's next movie, ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (1976). It's also eerily similar to THE CONVERSATION (same year,
1974). Paranoia, surveillance, corruption, giant shadowy secretive organizations that the honest guy has no chance against. See also CHINATOWN, in that respect, I guess (also 1974).
The first half of the 70s is basically an echo of the last half of the 40s. Noir grows in the soil of disillusionment.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · Sep 8

Meanwhile, I don't personally know anyone who gets value from stealth bombers, or from kidnapping and enslavement squads, or the demolition of regulations that protect us from the profit motive, but I know it isn't you or me or any of the rest of us.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · Sep 8

Somewhere along the line the idea took hold that every part of public life needs to be efficient, an efficiency exclusively expressed in terms of whether or not it makes money. "Makes money for who, exactly?" is a question that is never asked.

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · Sep 7

The Lamps of ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (1976) (d. Pakula) 🧵 #NoirLamps

The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · Sep 7

The Lamps (and Snack Crackers) of ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (1976) 💡

Redford on couch (far L) next to table lamp w/ beige fabric shade. An open box of Ritz crackers sits next to lamp

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · Sep 7

The Lamps of ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (1976) (d. Pakula) 💡

This is the good stuff ❤️

Redford (far L) in dark parking garage w/ two fluorescent lights above him and a maw of ominous blackness to his left, which he’s looking at over his left shoulder

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · Sep 7

The Lamps of ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (1976) (d. Pakula) 💡

A single lit street lamp on a street at night w Redford running away into a small patch of light in the distance (L)

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · Sep 7

The Lamps of ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (1976) (d. Pakula) 💡

Holbrook smoking in parking garage w one fluorescent light above

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · Sep 7

The Lamps of ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (1976) (d. Pakula) 💡

Redford oversleeps for meeting with Deep Throat (sitting on twin bed w plaid coverlet, a wall lamp mounted nearby)

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · Sep 7

The Lamps of ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (1976) (d. Pakula) 💡

Dustin Hoffman on an orange floral couch next to an orange floral table lamp

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · Sep 7

d. Alan Pakula, shot by Gordon Willis

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · Sep 7

The Lamps (and Snack Crackers) of ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (1976) 💡

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · Sep 5

“Noir,” they said. “You like noir.”

Perversely, I finished this movie solely so that I could then watch it with the @glennkenny.bsky.social and @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social commentary 👍🏼

Blu-ray cover of LADY ON A TRAIN—woman w gun and flashlight stands over fallen man

Deanra... on a Man (Oh! Mail Aunt!
UNIVERSAL PRESENTS
DEANNA DURBIN
Lady on
a rain
WITH
RALPH BELLAMY - DAVID BRUCE
GEORGE COULOURIS • ALLEN JENKINS - DAN DURYEA
EDWARD EVERETT HORTON • PATRICIA MORISON
ELIZABETH PATTERSON - MARIA PALMER • JACQUELINE de WIT
Produces by FELD JACKSON - Directes by CHARLES DAVID - Assocate Producer: HOWARD CHRISTIE
Scresplay by EDMUND BELOIN aNd ROBERT O'BRIEN - Orgas Story By LESLIE CHARTERIS

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