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Film Noir Movies

People think that Film Noir is a reaction to World War II. Not true. Most of the great hard-boiled and noir pulp fiction came out during the 30’s, as a reaction to the great depression. Film noir didn’t become a big thing until after the war (post 1945), because the powers that be didn’t want to release pessimistic, down-ending films that would lower the country’s morale.

This could be a very loooong list. Hundreds of films in fact. So I am just going to list the films that I heard mentioned specifically in various film noir documentaries and books, as examples of great noir.

Film Noir Era 1945-1958

The Letter (1940)

The Stranger on The Third Floor (1940)

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

The Glass Key (1942)

This Gun For Hire (1942)

Shadow of A Doubt (1943)

Double Indemnity (1944)

To Have and Have Not (1944)

Laura (1944)

Murder My Sweet (1944)

Phantom Lady (1944)

Detour (1945)

Fallen Angel (1945)

Leave Her To Heaven (1945)

The Lost Weekend (1945)

Mildred Pierce (1945)

Scarlet Street (1945)

The Big Sleep (1946)

Black Angel (1946)

The Blue Dahlia (1946)

The Dark Corner (1946)

The Dark Mirror (1946)

Decoy (1946)

Gilda (1946)

The Killers (1946)

Notorious (1946)

The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

The Stranger (1946)

Body and Soul (1947)

Born To Kill (1947)

Brute Force (1947)

Crossfire (1947)

Dark Passage (1947)

Dead Reckoning (1947)

Desperate (1947)

Kiss of Death (1947)

Lady In The Lake (1947)

Nightmare Alley (1947)

Out of The Past (1947)

Ride The Pink Horse (1947)

T-Men (1947)

The Big Clock (1948)

Call Northside 777 (1948)

Cry of The City (1948)

Force of Evil (1948)

He Walked By Night (1948)

Hollow Triumph (1948)

Key Largo (1948)

The Lady From Shanghai (1948)

The Naked City (1948)

Pitfall (1948)

Raw Deal (1948)

The Street With No Name (1948)

They Live By Night (1948)

Act of Violence (1949)

Border Incident (1949)

Criss-Cross (1949)

Impact (1949)

The Reckless Moment (1949)

The Set-Up (1949)

Thieves’ Highway (1949)

The Third Man (1949)

White Heat (1949)

The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

D.O.A. (1950)

The File on Thelma Jordan (1950)

Gun Crazy (1950)

In A Lonely Place (1950)

Night and The City (1950)

Panic In The Streets (1950)

Side Street (1950)

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Where Danger Lives (1950)

Where The Sidewalk Ends (1950)

Ace In The Hole (1951)

His Kind of Woman (1951)

On Dangerous Ground (1951)

The Prowler (1951)

Strangers On A Train (1951)

The Bad and The Beautiful (1952)

Clash By Night (1952)

Kansas City Confidential (1952)

The Narrow Margin (1952)

Sudden Fear (1952)

Angel Face (1953)

The Big Heat (1953)

The Blue Gardenia (1953)

The Hitch-Hiker (1953)

Niagra (1953)

Pickup on South Street (1953)

Crime Wave (1954)

Human Desire (1954)

Rear Window (1954)

The Big Combo (1955)

The Desperate Hours (1955)

Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

The Night of The Hunter (1955)

The Killing (1956)

While The City Sleeps (1956)

The Wrong Man (1956)

Sweet Smell Of Success (1957)

Touch of Evil (1958)

Vertigo (1958)

Neo-Noir Era 60’s-90’s

À bout de soufflé/ Breathless (1960)

Shoot The Piano Player (1960)

Underworld, U.S.A. (1961)

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Harper (1966)

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Dirty Harry (1971)

The French Connection (1971)

The Long Goodbye (1973)

Chinatown (1974)

Taxi Driver (1976)

Body Heat (1981)

Blade Runner (1982)

Blood Simple (1984)

To Live and Die In L.A. (1985)

Blue Velvet (1986)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)

The Grifters (1990)

King of New York (1990)

Miller’s Crossing (1990)

New Jack City (1991)

The Silence of The Lambs (1991)

Basic Instinct (1992)

Reservoir Dogs (1992)

True Romance (1993)

Natural Born Killers (1994)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Devil In A New Dress (1995)

Heat (1995)

Se7en (1995)

The Usual Suspects (1995)

Fargo (1996)

L.A. Confidential (1997)

The Big Lebowski (1998)

Payback (1999)

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“I never said love, but I could tell you how she takes her tea. I could tell you where the honey is.”

— Dave Harris, from Patricide

#poetry

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That’s so sweet

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Are you disappointed that it’s me? No.

#love simon #watchlist

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Booksmart (2019)

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Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

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Black queer male artists

Big Freedia - Freddie Ross is a gay man who answers to both she/he pronouns. Often called the Queen of Bounce, he specializes in bounce, edm, dance, and hiphop music.

Cakes da Killa - Born Rashard Bradshaw, he’s a gay American rapper based in New York. His debut album “Hedonism” was released in 2016.

Frank Ocean - Frank Ocean is a r&b/hiphop artist who has dated both men and women, but doesn’t claim any labels as his own. In fact he actively rejects labelling himself. “Chanel” is a must listen.

Keiynan Lonsdale - Singer/actor who played the love interest in Love, Simon. He’s also released some truly amazing music this year like “Preach” and “Kiss the boy.” On his sexuality he had this to say “I actually don’t label myself…some people call me queer, some people call me bisexual, whatever it is now I’m happy with all of it.”

Kele Okereke - The gay lead singer of indie rock band Bloc Party. He’s also released two solo albums under the mononym “Kele” and a third under his full name.

Kevin Abstract - Gay & a founding member of hiphop group Brockhampton. Kevin is a rapper and singer-songwriter, and released his debut solo album in 2014. In 2016 he came out and released his second and very gay album “American Boyfriend.”

Le1f - Born Khalif Diouf, he’s a gay rapper and producer. His debut album “Riot Boi” was released in 2015.

Mykki Blanco - Originally on the music scene as a transgender woman, Mykki decided not to transition and live his truth as a gay, HIV positive man. He said “I am a femme gay man, but my trans journey is who I am.” He is a rapper, poet, and activist.

Taylor Bennet - Bisexual rapper & brother of Chance the Rapper. One of his latest singles “Be Yourself” is very gay and very good. I also love the song he did with his brother, “Broad Shoulders.”

Todrick Hall - Gay pop/hip house musician, dancer, drag queen, and choreographer. He released a new album “Forbidden” just this year. Listen to “Boys wear pink.”

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EUPHORIA | “Some new girl in town that I think you’re going to be friends with”

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Electronic indie pop alignment chart for your consideration

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X

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“Our abilities can’t fix things. If something’s broken, it stays broken.” Fast Color (2018) dir. Julia Hart

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#jokes

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The fact that I am gonna is the day shift for ya girl ya ya know ya ya damn bro ya ya know ya ya damn bro lol

The fact is the time that you are going on the road and I don’t know how much I can get it for you but you gotta is that I am going on the road

The fact I am going well with the day I will do something like a little something else I can have to make it up for y’all I know you guys have been here so I know I wanna I know I was just thinking

Th fact is the time of my time to come home and work out with the family and I work for a few days so I’ll be home for dinner tonight or maybe tomorrow night or something

The fact of the day you can get a hold of you or something haha this morning and you are still going to work on the weekend I know ya work at work tomorrow and I can get you to work in a little bit

The fact is the only way I wanna this is to be the best way for me haha

The fact that you are still going through this stuff is not gonna it will probably not work out so I don’t want to talk to you again

The fact is the time that you are actually doing something like this is why you gotta get to the point where you don’t want to talk to me because you know that I am not sure

The poem was just a little sad but that is the way it is for ya girl

Played that iPhone game with predictive text:

The fact I can get it right away with a lot more fun and addicting and I don’t think it’s time for me and I don’t think it’s time for me and I don’t love you

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#poetry #predictive text #yikes

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the whole internet every time a popular online personality gets busted for being a dick:

#social media #memetics

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holy fucking shit people simulated the 302 neurons in a worm’s brain with software, put it in a Lego robot and it behaves like a worm

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/weve-put-worms-mind-lego-robot-body-180953399/?no-ist

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this whole discussion about a Mulan life-action baffles me. Like… I love the fun with Mushu and all but? Why do we need a Disney remake of the movie when there is

a pretty much epic

beautiful

actually Chinese version

with great characters

and Mulan’s more accurate story

readily available??? 

Since 2009??

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lists for lesbian media with no homophobia or death or sadness? just happy films

Ooh fun! But also difficult. I’m going to focus on lesbian/bi films that have super happy feelings for the majority of the movie + happy endings! Fair warning that there may still be passing homophobic remarks/behavior in them.

Link to Queer Film Google Sheet

Happy Lesbian (Mostly Comedy) Movies:

Blockers - This is genuinely such a good movie! It had me rolling on the floor laughing, the lesbian character and coming out/romance subplot was a gift and it was surprisingly, refreshingly feminist for a sex comedy about parents trying to stop their teenage daughters from having sex on prom night! It portrays women’s experiences with sexuality & sex really well and one of my favorite lines from a film in 2018 was from the gay character’s father worrying that the girl’s peers were pressuring her into “losing her virginity to someone of the wrong sex” (in reference to her trying to have sex with a boy.)

But I’m a Cheerleader - Don’t let this movie’s premise scare you out of watching it! In today’s post “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” and “Boy Erased” world with two films that gave us a shocking, scary, and far more truthful look into what conversion camps are actually like, this satirical dark comedy might offend some so proceed with caution. It has a very happy ending (with rainbow clad gays whisking away queer teenagers to a better life) and is pretty damn groundbreaking considering it came out in 2000. The colors, music, and aesthetic are all on point and it was one of the first gay films i ever watched!!

D.E.B.S - I imagine this was created because somebody wrote a fanfic about lesbian teenage spies and mastermind villians and then somebody else decided to make it into a movie. Don’t take it too seriously, don’t expect an oscar worthy experience, and you might really like it! It’s happy, cute, weird, and really easy to watch!

Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga - This movie made me cry so hard, but I’m including it because of it’s truly amazing, Disney-esque happy ending and the general good vibe feelings I got when I wasnt sobbing. There are some graphic depictions of homophobia and the queer experience in it, but I highly suggest watching anyways! There’s no other film quite like it. Its the first Bollywood film to star a mainstream actress (Sonam Kapoor) and its important to show support for things like this so that people know theres a market out there for them and make more.

Hearts Beat Loud - I havent seen this yet, but its on the to-be-watched list! From what I’ve read it doesnt have a coming out or anything, its just about a dad, his lesbian daughter, and music!

Lez Bomb - This has been best described as a “lesbian hallmark movie.” The family comedy is set over the American holiday Thanksgiving and is light, sweet, and cute. Laugh along as a closeted woman tries and fails repeatedly to come out to her family and deals with rumours that her and her male roomate are dating.

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