It’s noir vs. myth in Jean-Pierre Melville’s When You Read This Letter (Quand tu liras cette lettre). When You Read This Letter, released in 1953, the [...]

Judge Noir Decides: Noir or Not? The Flame (1947) directed by John H. Auer Does Film Noir become “Camp Noir” in this Vera Ralston vehicle? The [...]

“Style is a simple way of saying complicated things” Jean Cocteau Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (Ladies of the Park) is a film with a [...]

If it may please the court: The Case of Dark Passage, a 1947 crime drama, directed by Delmer Daves, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. It was the [...]

The Defendant: Hollow Triumph AKA The Scar (1948) Hollow Triumph AKA The Scar, starring Paul Henreid and directed by Hungarian-born Steve Sekely. Henreid [...]

As ‘Judgenoir’ I make fatalistic, cynical decisions whether or not a movie is really ‘film noir’       It’s a [...]