Today's (May 23rd, 2009) Wall St. Journal has an article by Sarah Weinman entitled: "Startling Spy Story -- Ambler's A Coffin for Dimitrios' was postmodern in 1939". For more information on Ms. Weinman and her article, see http://www.sarahweinman.com/.
In other noir news, Pedro Almodovar's latest film, Los Abrazos Rotos (Broken Embraces), opened at Cannes, recently. Almodovar, the darling of Spanish film, and possibly European film, is largely ignored in the United States. Maybe because he prefers sex to violence and his films are always stamped with the kiss-of-death R rating in the US. According to the Bloomberg review: Almodovar delivers a film noir with few loopy moments and a conventional plot: Two older men in the movie business fight over a sultry starlet born on the wrong side of the tracks. Is it really noir? Probably not, as journalists and critics love to abuse the noir appellation, but given Almodovar's track record for making quirky and insightful films -- noir or not -- look for it when it finally hits our theaters.
Showings at the Roxie today: The Burglar (with Dan Duryea and Jayne Mansfield), and Witness to Murder (with Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, and camera work by John Alton).
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