For your consideration: Terribly Happy, a terribly-titled Danish film released in the U.S. earlier this year. It’s about a disgraced lawman sent to the purgatory of a bleak little town, where he finds all the things we expect in American film noir: a temptress, dark motives and homicide. And of course a creepy little girl pushing a baby stroller. In theme and tone it reminds me a […]
It’s just one click. But nooooo….
It has come to my attention that almost no one is voting on my film noir poll. Normally I’d consider this a personal affront and ample cause for a profanity-laced rant on how nobody cares anymore, nobody. But my wife Tess has pointed out it’s probably because I didn’t include her personal favorite neo-noir: The Grifters, from 1990. OK, it was a glaring omission. Any film that […]