#NowWatching Crime and Punishment (D:Josef von Sternberg, 1935)
"...more of a jazzy 'best of' interpretation of Dostoevsky's novel, but it's a worthy psychological crime thriller come proto-noir that distils the essence of Raskolnikov's torment into an entertaining, theatrically staged rendition."
"...more of a jazzy 'best of' interpretation of Dostoevsky's novel, but it's a worthy psychological crime thriller come proto-noir that distils the essence of Raskolnikov's torment into an entertaining, theatrically staged rendition."
December 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
#NowWatching Crime and Punishment (D:Josef von Sternberg, 1935)
"...more of a jazzy 'best of' interpretation of Dostoevsky's novel, but it's a worthy psychological crime thriller come proto-noir that distils the essence of Raskolnikov's torment into an entertaining, theatrically staged rendition."
"...more of a jazzy 'best of' interpretation of Dostoevsky's novel, but it's a worthy psychological crime thriller come proto-noir that distils the essence of Raskolnikov's torment into an entertaining, theatrically staged rendition."
#NoirvemberChallenge
Day 30. Best film noir ending.
In the proto-Noir I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG, Paul Muni is a veteran who can't escape a brutal, inhumane system (sound familiar?). His final line as he fades into the dark is an unforgettable moment, one of the greatest film endings ever.
Day 30. Best film noir ending.
In the proto-Noir I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG, Paul Muni is a veteran who can't escape a brutal, inhumane system (sound familiar?). His final line as he fades into the dark is an unforgettable moment, one of the greatest film endings ever.
November 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
#NoirvemberChallenge
Day 30. Best film noir ending.
In the proto-Noir I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG, Paul Muni is a veteran who can't escape a brutal, inhumane system (sound familiar?). His final line as he fades into the dark is an unforgettable moment, one of the greatest film endings ever.
Day 30. Best film noir ending.
In the proto-Noir I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG, Paul Muni is a veteran who can't escape a brutal, inhumane system (sound familiar?). His final line as he fades into the dark is an unforgettable moment, one of the greatest film endings ever.
Ur-scene from that proto-noir #DrMabuseDerSpieler
November 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Ur-scene from that proto-noir #DrMabuseDerSpieler
HBO Max added 30 classic crime films in Nov — from proto-noirs like THE PUBLIC ENEMY (1931) to essentials like OUT OF THE PAST (1947).
Including their Criterion titles, they now have nearly 100 pre-1960 noirs.
There’s even a dedicated #Noirvember section. (New adds in alt text.) #FilmSky #FilmNoir
Including their Criterion titles, they now have nearly 100 pre-1960 noirs.
There’s even a dedicated #Noirvember section. (New adds in alt text.) #FilmSky #FilmNoir
November 12, 2025 at 2:20 AM
HBO Max added 30 classic crime films in Nov — from proto-noirs like THE PUBLIC ENEMY (1931) to essentials like OUT OF THE PAST (1947).
Including their Criterion titles, they now have nearly 100 pre-1960 noirs.
There’s even a dedicated #Noirvember section. (New adds in alt text.) #FilmSky #FilmNoir
Including their Criterion titles, they now have nearly 100 pre-1960 noirs.
There’s even a dedicated #Noirvember section. (New adds in alt text.) #FilmSky #FilmNoir
#FilmNoir ahead of its time, Day 4
#NoirvemberChallenge 2025
I’m going with #CrimeOfPassion
Ahead of its time in the 50s. A “Proto-Feminist” Noir? #BarbaraStanwyck plays a successful career woman who gives it all up to be a suburban housewife. It does NOT go well!
@ladykdesigns.bsky.social
#NoirvemberChallenge 2025
I’m going with #CrimeOfPassion
Ahead of its time in the 50s. A “Proto-Feminist” Noir? #BarbaraStanwyck plays a successful career woman who gives it all up to be a suburban housewife. It does NOT go well!
@ladykdesigns.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 7:29 AM
#FilmNoir ahead of its time, Day 4
#NoirvemberChallenge 2025
I’m going with #CrimeOfPassion
Ahead of its time in the 50s. A “Proto-Feminist” Noir? #BarbaraStanwyck plays a successful career woman who gives it all up to be a suburban housewife. It does NOT go well!
@ladykdesigns.bsky.social
#NoirvemberChallenge 2025
I’m going with #CrimeOfPassion
Ahead of its time in the 50s. A “Proto-Feminist” Noir? #BarbaraStanwyck plays a successful career woman who gives it all up to be a suburban housewife. It does NOT go well!
@ladykdesigns.bsky.social
The #NoirvemberChallenge continues! Day 4: Film Noir Ahead of Its Time. My pick this year is proto-incel lady-hating mass shooter psychonoir The Sniper.
November 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The #NoirvemberChallenge continues! Day 4: Film Noir Ahead of Its Time. My pick this year is proto-incel lady-hating mass shooter psychonoir The Sniper.
@zackquaintance.bsky.social Can I humbly add a frequently overlooked gem?
While far from perfect, DARK CITY (1950) is well worth a watch. It’s a crime noir that frequently takes place in the daytime, has almost proto-slasher elements, and great performances all around.
While far from perfect, DARK CITY (1950) is well worth a watch. It’s a crime noir that frequently takes place in the daytime, has almost proto-slasher elements, and great performances all around.
November 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
@zackquaintance.bsky.social Can I humbly add a frequently overlooked gem?
While far from perfect, DARK CITY (1950) is well worth a watch. It’s a crime noir that frequently takes place in the daytime, has almost proto-slasher elements, and great performances all around.
While far from perfect, DARK CITY (1950) is well worth a watch. It’s a crime noir that frequently takes place in the daytime, has almost proto-slasher elements, and great performances all around.
I'll ask again for the daytime crowd: is proto-noir real or not? #Noirvember
November 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I'll ask again for the daytime crowd: is proto-noir real or not? #Noirvember
Sure, noir didn't just pop up out of nowhere. Starting in the late 20s if not earlier, everyone from Jacques Tourneur (The Leopard Man) to Josef von Sternberg (Shanghai Express) to Marcel Carne (Le jour se leve) to Yasujiro Ozu (That Night's Wife) made proto-noir films.
November 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Sure, noir didn't just pop up out of nowhere. Starting in the late 20s if not earlier, everyone from Jacques Tourneur (The Leopard Man) to Josef von Sternberg (Shanghai Express) to Marcel Carne (Le jour se leve) to Yasujiro Ozu (That Night's Wife) made proto-noir films.
#NoirvemberChallenge Day 3: The Film Noir That Made You a Fan. Maybe more like melodramatic proto-noir, but I'm gonna say The Shanghai Gesture. Ona Munson's draggy wigs! Bratty sub Gene Tierney! Victor Mature in a fez! A goth girl's gateway drug to the hard (boiled) stuff.
November 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
#NoirvemberChallenge Day 3: The Film Noir That Made You a Fan. Maybe more like melodramatic proto-noir, but I'm gonna say The Shanghai Gesture. Ona Munson's draggy wigs! Bratty sub Gene Tierney! Victor Mature in a fez! A goth girl's gateway drug to the hard (boiled) stuff.
Dead End (1937) dir. William Wyler 🎬
Just watched this excellent proto-noir with Humphrey Bogart playing a gangster who returns to the bowery slums that he grew up in. Joel McCrea and Sylvia Sidney are looking for a way out. The young bowery kids steal the show. #Noirvember #filmsky #filmnoir
Just watched this excellent proto-noir with Humphrey Bogart playing a gangster who returns to the bowery slums that he grew up in. Joel McCrea and Sylvia Sidney are looking for a way out. The young bowery kids steal the show. #Noirvember #filmsky #filmnoir
November 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Dead End (1937) dir. William Wyler 🎬
Just watched this excellent proto-noir with Humphrey Bogart playing a gangster who returns to the bowery slums that he grew up in. Joel McCrea and Sylvia Sidney are looking for a way out. The young bowery kids steal the show. #Noirvember #filmsky #filmnoir
Just watched this excellent proto-noir with Humphrey Bogart playing a gangster who returns to the bowery slums that he grew up in. Joel McCrea and Sylvia Sidney are looking for a way out. The young bowery kids steal the show. #Noirvember #filmsky #filmnoir
Du coup nouvelle pp (version mise à jour de mon proto de logo Dragtion Antifasciste
Usage libre, vous pouvez l'améliorer et l'utiliser si vous êtes drag et antifasciste
Usage libre, vous pouvez l'améliorer et l'utiliser si vous êtes drag et antifasciste
October 31, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Du coup nouvelle pp (version mise à jour de mon proto de logo Dragtion Antifasciste
Usage libre, vous pouvez l'améliorer et l'utiliser si vous êtes drag et antifasciste
Usage libre, vous pouvez l'améliorer et l'utiliser si vous êtes drag et antifasciste
Proto-noir at most, but Glenn and I like REMEMBER LAST NIGHT? so much (and it's shown so seldom) we don't feel bad about including it. The Channel series are meant to entice people to check out connected groups of films; they're certainly not the last word in genre classification!
REMEMBER LAST NIGHT? is high grade James Whale (and a lot of fun) but in my recollection too good-natured to feel like a noir
October 17, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Proto-noir at most, but Glenn and I like REMEMBER LAST NIGHT? so much (and it's shown so seldom) we don't feel bad about including it. The Channel series are meant to entice people to check out connected groups of films; they're certainly not the last word in genre classification!
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THE UNSUSPECTED (1947)
Has been added as Film Noir film #117 on this other Letterboxd list of mine:
“☎️📞🪲 Phone taps and Bugs in Proto-Noir, Film Noir, and Neo-Noir”, my list on @letterboxd: boxd.it/qjwhQ
#FilmNoirClub 🗝️ #FilmNoir 🕵️ #NOIRROR 🔪
#FilmSky #MovieSky #WatchParty 🥳
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THE UNSUSPECTED (1947)
Has been added as Film Noir film #117 on this other Letterboxd list of mine:
“☎️📞🪲 Phone taps and Bugs in Proto-Noir, Film Noir, and Neo-Noir”, my list on @letterboxd: boxd.it/qjwhQ
#FilmNoirClub 🗝️ #FilmNoir 🕵️ #NOIRROR 🔪
#FilmSky #MovieSky #WatchParty 🥳
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October 16, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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THE UNSUSPECTED (1947)
Has been added as Film Noir film #117 on this other Letterboxd list of mine:
“☎️📞🪲 Phone taps and Bugs in Proto-Noir, Film Noir, and Neo-Noir”, my list on @letterboxd: boxd.it/qjwhQ
#FilmNoirClub 🗝️ #FilmNoir 🕵️ #NOIRROR 🔪
#FilmSky #MovieSky #WatchParty 🥳
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THE UNSUSPECTED (1947)
Has been added as Film Noir film #117 on this other Letterboxd list of mine:
“☎️📞🪲 Phone taps and Bugs in Proto-Noir, Film Noir, and Neo-Noir”, my list on @letterboxd: boxd.it/qjwhQ
#FilmNoirClub 🗝️ #FilmNoir 🕵️ #NOIRROR 🔪
#FilmSky #MovieSky #WatchParty 🥳
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Dan Kuroto is at it again, this time with 2 new Gashats from #KamenRider Outsiders: Tokimeki Bridal and Proto Mighty Action X Noir!
Great opp for those that missed out on the original Proto Mighty Action release as it contains the same sounds 👉 https://buff.ly/4hjVWGB
Great opp for those that missed out on the original Proto Mighty Action release as it contains the same sounds 👉 https://buff.ly/4hjVWGB
October 26, 2024 at 9:16 AM
Dan Kuroto is at it again, this time with 2 new Gashats from #KamenRider Outsiders: Tokimeki Bridal and Proto Mighty Action X Noir!
Great opp for those that missed out on the original Proto Mighty Action release as it contains the same sounds 👉 https://buff.ly/4hjVWGB
Great opp for those that missed out on the original Proto Mighty Action release as it contains the same sounds 👉 https://buff.ly/4hjVWGB
Definitely. I consider HALLOWEEN to be the first true slasher the same way MALTESE FALCON is the first noir. There are tons of precursors and proto-whatevers but those are the moment all the tropes fully clicked into place and kick started a cinematic movement.
May 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Definitely. I consider HALLOWEEN to be the first true slasher the same way MALTESE FALCON is the first noir. There are tons of precursors and proto-whatevers but those are the moment all the tropes fully clicked into place and kick started a cinematic movement.
Movie 7: "Freaks" (Dir. Tod Browning, 1932, USA)
Browning parlayed the success from "Dracula" into this flawed yet fantastic cultural artifact. The plot is more proto-noir than horror, and it's a shame Browning's preferred cut no longer survives.
#spookyseason #classichorrorrewatch
Browning parlayed the success from "Dracula" into this flawed yet fantastic cultural artifact. The plot is more proto-noir than horror, and it's a shame Browning's preferred cut no longer survives.
#spookyseason #classichorrorrewatch
Movie 6: "The Ring" (Dir. Gore Verbinski, 2002, USA)
Overall a respectable remake of "Ring," with the exception of gaps in narrative logic and an underdeveloped backstory for Samara and her mother. Its fantastic visuals and thematic flourishes don't fully compensate.
#spookyseason #newtomehorror
Overall a respectable remake of "Ring," with the exception of gaps in narrative logic and an underdeveloped backstory for Samara and her mother. Its fantastic visuals and thematic flourishes don't fully compensate.
#spookyseason #newtomehorror
Movie 5: "Frankenstein" (Dir. James Whale, 1931, USA)
James Whale's "Frankenstein" is like a burrito: not authentic to its origins, but is now a bonafide icon. It's not an accurate adaptation, but it has all the right ingredients in play and enchants.
#spookyseason #classichorrorrewatch
James Whale's "Frankenstein" is like a burrito: not authentic to its origins, but is now a bonafide icon. It's not an accurate adaptation, but it has all the right ingredients in play and enchants.
#spookyseason #classichorrorrewatch
October 18, 2024 at 1:58 AM
Movie 7: "Freaks" (Dir. Tod Browning, 1932, USA)
Browning parlayed the success from "Dracula" into this flawed yet fantastic cultural artifact. The plot is more proto-noir than horror, and it's a shame Browning's preferred cut no longer survives.
#spookyseason #classichorrorrewatch
Browning parlayed the success from "Dracula" into this flawed yet fantastic cultural artifact. The plot is more proto-noir than horror, and it's a shame Browning's preferred cut no longer survives.
#spookyseason #classichorrorrewatch
I've always loved the strange and stylish THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI, possibly because it feels so much like proto-Lynch. Murky, paranoid, and a parody and pastiche of film noir with one of the greatest visualisations of a descent into insanity and depravity. Terrific extras on the Indicator blu-ray.
May 18, 2024 at 6:40 AM
I've always loved the strange and stylish THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI, possibly because it feels so much like proto-Lynch. Murky, paranoid, and a parody and pastiche of film noir with one of the greatest visualisations of a descent into insanity and depravity. Terrific extras on the Indicator blu-ray.
FILM FREAK FRIDAY
#FilmFreakFriday
OUT OF THE FOG (1941)
Proto-noir, based on the play THE GENTLE PEOPLE by Irwin Shaw. John Garfield as a thoroughly evil gangster-wannabe. With Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell and John Qualen. With great atmospheric cinematography by James Wong Howe. Recommended.
#FilmFreakFriday
OUT OF THE FOG (1941)
Proto-noir, based on the play THE GENTLE PEOPLE by Irwin Shaw. John Garfield as a thoroughly evil gangster-wannabe. With Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell and John Qualen. With great atmospheric cinematography by James Wong Howe. Recommended.
October 20, 2023 at 4:23 PM
FILM FREAK FRIDAY
#FilmFreakFriday
OUT OF THE FOG (1941)
Proto-noir, based on the play THE GENTLE PEOPLE by Irwin Shaw. John Garfield as a thoroughly evil gangster-wannabe. With Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell and John Qualen. With great atmospheric cinematography by James Wong Howe. Recommended.
#FilmFreakFriday
OUT OF THE FOG (1941)
Proto-noir, based on the play THE GENTLE PEOPLE by Irwin Shaw. John Garfield as a thoroughly evil gangster-wannabe. With Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell and John Qualen. With great atmospheric cinematography by James Wong Howe. Recommended.
So everything nominated for the first-ever Oscars is public domain now! This includes The Racket, a pessimistic proto-noir about Prohibition actually made during Prohibition. Despite being an Oscar nominee, it was lost until rediscovered in Howard Hughes' collection. archive.org/details/1928...
January 1, 2024 at 9:38 PM
So everything nominated for the first-ever Oscars is public domain now! This includes The Racket, a pessimistic proto-noir about Prohibition actually made during Prohibition. Despite being an Oscar nominee, it was lost until rediscovered in Howard Hughes' collection. archive.org/details/1928...
𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘰𝘴𝘮𝘰𝘴 ✦ Un jeu expliquant le processus de formation des étoiles.
Apporter les ressources nécessaires pour faire évoluer des proto-étoiles en naine rouge, étoile jaune & géante bleue. Si trop d'atomes sont agrégés, l'étoile s'effondre pour donner un trou noir.
Collab Université de Bordeaux
Apporter les ressources nécessaires pour faire évoluer des proto-étoiles en naine rouge, étoile jaune & géante bleue. Si trop d'atomes sont agrégés, l'étoile s'effondre pour donner un trou noir.
Collab Université de Bordeaux
January 22, 2025 at 8:50 AM
𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘰𝘴𝘮𝘰𝘴 ✦ Un jeu expliquant le processus de formation des étoiles.
Apporter les ressources nécessaires pour faire évoluer des proto-étoiles en naine rouge, étoile jaune & géante bleue. Si trop d'atomes sont agrégés, l'étoile s'effondre pour donner un trou noir.
Collab Université de Bordeaux
Apporter les ressources nécessaires pour faire évoluer des proto-étoiles en naine rouge, étoile jaune & géante bleue. Si trop d'atomes sont agrégés, l'étoile s'effondre pour donner un trou noir.
Collab Université de Bordeaux
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THE UNSUSPECTED (1947)
Just added it as film noir film #213 to my Letterboxd List:
“Fernsprechkiosk - Telephone Booths in Film Noir, Proto-Noir, Neo-Noir, Noirror, & Noirish - phone booth = Jabbrrbox"
boxd.it/rEuOE
#FilmNoirClub 🗝️ #FilmNoir 🕵️ #NOIRROR 🔪
#FilmSky #MovieSky #WatchParty 🥳
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THE UNSUSPECTED (1947)
Just added it as film noir film #213 to my Letterboxd List:
“Fernsprechkiosk - Telephone Booths in Film Noir, Proto-Noir, Neo-Noir, Noirror, & Noirish - phone booth = Jabbrrbox"
boxd.it/rEuOE
#FilmNoirClub 🗝️ #FilmNoir 🕵️ #NOIRROR 🔪
#FilmSky #MovieSky #WatchParty 🥳
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Fernsprechkiosk - Telephone Booths in Film Noir, Proto-Noir, Neo-Noir, Noirror, & Noirish - phone booth = phone box = Jabbrrbox = N.b.: an indoor booth is called a 'silence cabinet'
. ⚜️ 🇱🇮🇸🇹 . 🇨🇷🇪🇦🇹🇪🇩 . 🇧🇾 ⚜️ 🦇 🇼🇦🇭🇷🇭🇦🇫🇹🇮🇬 🦇 👉 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗺 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗿...
boxd.it
October 16, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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THE UNSUSPECTED (1947)
Just added it as film noir film #213 to my Letterboxd List:
“Fernsprechkiosk - Telephone Booths in Film Noir, Proto-Noir, Neo-Noir, Noirror, & Noirish - phone booth = Jabbrrbox"
boxd.it/rEuOE
#FilmNoirClub 🗝️ #FilmNoir 🕵️ #NOIRROR 🔪
#FilmSky #MovieSky #WatchParty 🥳
📽️
THE UNSUSPECTED (1947)
Just added it as film noir film #213 to my Letterboxd List:
“Fernsprechkiosk - Telephone Booths in Film Noir, Proto-Noir, Neo-Noir, Noirror, & Noirish - phone booth = Jabbrrbox"
boxd.it/rEuOE
#FilmNoirClub 🗝️ #FilmNoir 🕵️ #NOIRROR 🔪
#FilmSky #MovieSky #WatchParty 🥳
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33rd movie of 2024: Laura (1944). Classic noir revolving around a charming woman everybody falls in love with. The standout was definitely Vincent Price, who I had never seen in a non-horror role before this. He's on some jilted proto-incel shit that still feels very timely 📽️🎞️
February 14, 2024 at 5:18 PM
33rd movie of 2024: Laura (1944). Classic noir revolving around a charming woman everybody falls in love with. The standout was definitely Vincent Price, who I had never seen in a non-horror role before this. He's on some jilted proto-incel shit that still feels very timely 📽️🎞️
My favorite genres are
5. Proto-screwball
4. Category subversion/audience double-cross
3. Widescreen technicolor candy
2. Mindfuck noir
1. Meticulously animated downer
5. Proto-screwball
4. Category subversion/audience double-cross
3. Widescreen technicolor candy
2. Mindfuck noir
1. Meticulously animated downer
My favorite genres are
5. Small towns
4. Fuck everything
3. Breaking and entering/The dark and lonely places/Finding a big gun
2. Scorsese Catholicism
1. I've come to the end of me, Rita.
5. Small towns
4. Fuck everything
3. Breaking and entering/The dark and lonely places/Finding a big gun
2. Scorsese Catholicism
1. I've come to the end of me, Rita.
my favorite genres are
5. crying/smoking/drinking whiskey out of a small water glass
4. the show must go on!!! (even though I'd rather cry/smoke/drink whiskey out of a small water glass)
3. the world is fascist trash, eat lead/get slimed
2. religion is pop culture is communal psychosis
1. sheep pig
5. crying/smoking/drinking whiskey out of a small water glass
4. the show must go on!!! (even though I'd rather cry/smoke/drink whiskey out of a small water glass)
3. the world is fascist trash, eat lead/get slimed
2. religion is pop culture is communal psychosis
1. sheep pig
March 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
My favorite genres are
5. Proto-screwball
4. Category subversion/audience double-cross
3. Widescreen technicolor candy
2. Mindfuck noir
1. Meticulously animated downer
5. Proto-screwball
4. Category subversion/audience double-cross
3. Widescreen technicolor candy
2. Mindfuck noir
1. Meticulously animated downer