#Brett Muller

[old-hollywood-smash-or-pass]

some suggestions: rod steiger, james mason, karl muller, elsa lancaster, margaret hamilton, jack klugman, debbie reynolds, roy milland, frederic march, jeremy brett, raymond burr, & anton walbrook

Very snazzy!

They've been added, and will posted through the coming month.

I was however unable to find the actor Karl Muller, did you by any chance mean Karl Malden?

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[filmnoirfoundation]

ASK EDDIE returns Thursday, October 19, 7:00 PM PT to our Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/filmnoirfoundation/live

FNF prez Eddie Muller responds to film noir fan questions fielded by the Foundation's Director of Communications Anne Hockens. In this episode, we discuss international noir, the best noir genre hybrids, why Eddie prefers a non-academic approach to writing about noir, and more. We wind up the show with our noir-stained horror movie recommendations for your Halloween viewing pleasure. On the cat front, Eddie’s answers a viewer’s questions about Tizzy’s travel habits.

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Note: Eddie will not be able to answer questions posted during the livestream nor ones left on our social media accounts

THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS:

What's the deal with the short ties in mid-century movies? Some of them appear to be only 10-12 inches long.

Jay and Connie, Ann Arbor

In my opinion, the countries with the strongest cinematic noir traditions are France, Japan, the U.K., and Mexico. Do you agree?  I'd love to hear the two of you discuss each of those four noir traditions (plus others if you'd like).

Kathleen from Chicago

Have you been to the Hollywood Museum on Highland Ave. in L.A.?

Alan, San Anselmo, CA

SUMMER OF DARKNESS introduced me to Eddie Muller. Eddie, how did you get involved with this? Did you have any connection to TCM prior to that Summer?

John Weber in Tampa

Can you tell me why NOTORIOUS is no longer shown on TCM? And the wonderful film noir, SLEEP MY LOVE, will that ever be shown?

Jenene

What are your favorite noir-fusion genres and which films do you consider definitive examples of a noir Western, noir science fiction, etc.?

Brett, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

STAIGHT TIME with Dustin Hoffman and Harry Dean Stanton-noirs often glamourize criminals and heists, but this seems very realistic. What’s Eddie’s take on the film and both these actors.

Brian in Toronto

In Walter Mosley's EVERY MAN A KING, TCM gets a mention as do the following:

THE BRASHER DOUBLOON. Any thoughts on the Chandler book or the film?

A character is described as Sydney Greenstreet on steroids. If you were to name your Mount Rushmore of Sydney Greenstreet movies, which two would you add to the obvious choice?

Oliver mentions Steve McQueen's last movie, THE HUNTER. I would like to hear your opinions.

Joe from Suffolk County, NY

A few months ago, Eddie was traveling with Tizzy, which got me to thinking about the difficulties/practicalities ...Did Tizzy go on an airplane? Stay in a hotel room? (Hotel bar?)

Sue, San Francisco

How do you think it would go if James Ellroy and Hunter S. Thompson found themselves seated at a table in a small room together? 

Bill, Pleasant Hill, CA

Eddie doesn’t seem to care for in-depth academic studies of Film Noir and prefers a historical and production emphasis for such studies. If this is true, what is it about those aspects of an academic intellectual approach to Film Noir that rings hollow to you?

Conrad 

[wherewhereare]

Brent Grace

Brett Grace is a famous socialite, writer, and creative consultant from the United States. He is the son of Robert S. McElvaine, famous author and the Elizabeth Chisholm Professor of Arts and Letters and Chair of the Department of History at Millsaps College, and his wife, Anne. Grace has attracted international attention for his socialite lifestyle. He is known for his appearance in music videos for artists such as Beck, Gwen Stefani, No Doubt, Shakespears Sister, Holly Miranda, and Billy Corgan. He rose to fame for his amazing talent and skills.

Brett Grace and Sophie Muller are longtime friends who have worked together on several music videos. According to Grace’s biography on Wikitia1, he met Muller through his friendship with British supermodel Georgia May Jagger, who is also a co-owner of Bleach London, a brand that Grace has consulted for. Grace and Muller have collaborated on music videos for artists such as Beck, Gwen Stefani, and No Doubt. Grace played the role of young Beck in the music video for “Heart is a Drum” from the album Morning Phase, which won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 2015. The video was directed by Muller and Giovanni Ribisi2. Grace also appeared in Muller’s videos for “Settle Down” by No Doubt and “Spark the Fire” by Gwen Stefani3.

Brett Grace and Gwen Stefani know each other through their mutual friend and collaborator Sophie Muller,

Grace, coincidental to the prior Beck video, played “Young Beck” in the musician’s 2014 video for “Heart is a Drum,” directed by Grace’s friend Sophie Muller (Grace also makes cameo appearances in videos Muller helmed for No Doubt’s “Settle Down,” and Gwen Stefani’s “Spark The Fire”).

In 2016, Grace contributed to Muller’s work on The Chicks (formerly Dixie Chicks) DCX MMXVI Live tour and subsequent DVD as a researcher.

(12) Gwen Stefani, Brett Grace, Georgia May Jagger - YouTube

Grace has appeared in two Beck music videos: "Gamma Ray," directed by Autumn de Wilde in 2008, and most notably, he played Young Beck in Beck's music video for "Heart is a Drum," directed by Sophie Muller and Giovanni Ribisi in 2014. He also made a cameo appearance hanging out with Gwen Stefani in her 2014 music video "Spark The Fire," directed by Sophie Muller.[5]

[ulkaralakbarova]

Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film “Nosferatu.” Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: F. W. Murnau: John Malkovich Max Schreck: Willem Dafoe Albin Grau: Udo Kier Fritz Arno Wagner: Cary Elwes Greta Schröder: Catherine McCormack Gustav von Wangenhein: Eddie Izzard Henrik Galeen: Aden Gillett Paul: Nicholas Elliott Wolfgang Müller: Ronan Vibert Elke: Sophie Langevin Maria: Myriam Muller Innkeeper: Miloš Hlaváč Innkeeper’s Wife: Marja-Leena Junker Reporter 1: Derek Kueter Reporter 2: Norman Golightly Drunken Woman: Sascha Ley Old Woman: Marie-Paule von Roesgen Murnau’s Crew: Orian Williams Micheline (uncredited): Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė Murnau’s Crew (uncredited): Radica Jovicic Film Crew: Director: E. Elias Merhige Screenplay: Steven Katz Original Music Composer: Dan Jones Editor: Chris Wyatt Producer: Nicolas Cage Producer: Jeff Levine Director of Photography: Lou Bogue Production Manager: Jean-Claude Schlim Casting: Carl Proctor Production Design: Assheton Gorton Art Direction: Chris Bradley Costume Design: Caroline de Vivaise Makeup Designer: Ann Buchanan Prosthetic Designer: Pauline Fowler Prosthetic Designer: Julian Murray Hairstylist: Katja Reinert-Alexis Prosthetic Makeup Artist: Amber Sibley Makeup Artist: Leendert van Nimwegen Post Production Supervisor: Stephen Barker First Assistant Director: Edward Brett Propmaker: Paul Biwer Construction Coordinator: Caryne Portevin Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Michael A. Carter Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Anthony Cleal ADR & Dubbing: James Feltham Foley Editor: Arthur Graley Supervising Sound Editor: Nigel Heath Sound Effects Editor: Julian Slater Boom Operator: Olivier Struye Sound Recordist: Carlo Thoss Stunt Coordinator: Rick Wiessenhaan Key Grip: Bernard Brégier Best Boy Electric: Emmanuel Frideritzi Still Photographer: Jean-Paul Kieffer Gaffer: Glen Parsons Best Boy Electric: Mark Stibbs Tailor: Christopher Prins Location Manager: Claude Ludovicy Choreographer: Francoise Van Den Bruck Camera Operator: Mike Fox Co-Producer: Richard Johns Second Assistant Director: Jamie Christopher Movie Reviews: John Chard: Did I kill one of your people, Murnau? I can’t remember. F.W. Murnau (John Malkovich) is filming Nosferatu (1922), but isn’t reclusive star Max Schreck (Willem Dafoe) taking his role of the vampire way too seriously? In some ways it’s a curate’s egg of a film. It certainly helps if you are a lover of old classic film and have some knowledge of the source material at the film’s core. It’s a fabulous concept that the screenplay is based around, that the star of the film may actually be a real vampire, and the whole production is executed with consummate skill (Dafoe was deservedly Oscar nominated as were make-up artists Ann Buchanan & Amber Sibley). But come the end it fizzles out and proves to not have delivered on its devilishly intriguing premise. Fun, though, and tech credits all round keep one well involved. 6/10

[alimentoseguro]

Descorchados 2024 reuniu mais de 1.700 pessoas entre os estados de São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro

A 26ª edição do Guia Descorchados chegou ao fim, encerrando uma jornada que percorreu as cidades de São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro, reunindo expoentes e produtores de vinhos latinos-americanos. 

Com um número recorde de participantes, o Descorchados 2024 cativou mais de 1.7000 visitantes, com 1.100 deles em São Paulo e +600 no Rio de Janeiro. Em São Paulo, 108 expositores se reuniram para apresentar o que há de melhor na produção vinícola sul-americana, enquanto no Rio de Janeiro foram 51 produtores a compartilhar suas preciosidades.

Ambos os eventos foram palco para a presença marcante de renomados produtores e enólogos, que trouxeram consigo não apenas vinhos de alta qualidade, mas também todo o conhecimento e paixão que permeiam a cultura do vinho na América Latina. No Rio de Janeiro, especialmente, a ampliação do espaço permitiu não só acomodar mais visitantes, mas também receber uma seleção ainda mais diversificada de produtores, entre eles nomes de peso que contribuíram para elevar ainda mais o prestígio do evento.

Dentre os expositores e enólogos presentes em ambos os estados, estavam: Alejandro Vigil, Catena e El Enemigo; Sebastian Zuccardi, Famiglia Zuccardi; Felipe Toso, Ventisquero; German Bruzzone, Garzon; Juan Pablo Murgia, Otronia e Argento; Felipe Muller, Tabali; Adolfo Lona; Alejandro Cardoso, Sacramentos Vinifer; Santiago Deicas, Familia Deicas; Marcelo Papa, Concha y Toro; Matias Rios, Cono Sur; Brett Jackson, Caballo Loc; Juan Pablo Michelini, Altar Uco; Marco de Martino, De Martino; David Bonomi, Norton; Andrea Ferreyra, La Celia e Daniel Dalla Vale, Casa Valduga.

Confira abaixo a lista de expositores presentes no evento:

São Paulo:  Aresti, Cousiño Macul, Valdivieso, Viñedos Puertas, Invina, Requingua, Koyle, Agustín Lanus | Bandoleros, Finca El Recreo, Los Haroldos | Hermandad, Sin Reglas, Sottano, Familia Millán, Altar Uco, Zuccardi, Antigal Winery & Estates, Pérez Cruz, Santa Ema, Viu Manent, Cremaschi Furlotti, Casas de Bucalmu, Bodegas Tagua Tagua, Las Veletas, Bodegas Caro, Carmen, Andes Plateau, William Fevre, Marchigue, Montgras, Norton, Doña Paula, Matervini, Miguel Torres, Clos de Luz | Mendoza & Carriel, Viñedos Orgânicos Veramonte | Viña Neyen de Apalta, San Pedro, Caliterra, Santa Rita, Tenuta Foppa & Ambrosi, Morandé, Dagaz, Vik, Viña Tabali, Basso, El Principal, Concha y Toro, Adolfo Lona, Sacramentos, Finca Sophenia, Los Vascos, Otronia, Montes, Garzón, Odfjell, Longavi, La Celia, Trapiche, Vinorum - Familia Altieri, Weinert, Bodegas Staphyle, Bouchon, Lagarde, Arboleda, Baron Philippe de Rothschild, Cono Sur, Emiliana, De Martino, Susana Balbo, Catena Zapata, El Enemigo, Argento, El Porvenir de Cafayate, Ventisquero, Casas del Toqui, Valduga, Ponto Nero, Las Perdices, Luiz Argenta, Vita Eterna, Vivalti, Familia Deicas, Nova Aliança, Siegel, Intipalka, La Coste de Los Andes, Kaikén, Bodega del Desierto, Compañía Uruguaya de Vinos de Mar, El Capricho, Campos de Solana, Bouza, Oceánica José Ignacio, Establecimiento Juanicó, Bracco Bosca, Cerro del Toro, Bohemian by Fiore, Familia Traversa, Spinoglio, Montes Toscanini, Manus, Vallontano, Audace.

Rio de Janeiro: Aresti, Cousiño Macul, Valdivieso, Viñedos Puertas, Invina, Requingua, Koyle, Bandoleros, Finca El Recreo, Los Haroldos, Sin Reglas, Sottano, Familia Millán, Altar Uco, Zuccardi, Antigal Winery & Estates, Pérez Cruz, Santa Ema, Casas del Bosque, Viu Manent, Bodegas Caro, Carmen, Norton, Doña Paula, Matervini, Miguel Torres, Caliterra, Santa Rita, Tenuta Foppa & Ambrosi, Basso, Adolfo Lona, Sacramentos, Finca Sophenia, Otronia, Garzón, Odfjell, Longavi, Bouchon, Arboleda, Baron Philippe de Rothschild, Cono Sur, Emiliana, De Martino, Susana Balbo, Ventisquero, Casas del Toqui, Las Perdices, Familia Deicas, Siegel, Intipalka, Campos de Solana.

__O evento é realizado anualmente e ocorre no Brasil desde 2012. É organizado pelo renomado crítico de vinhos chileno, Patricio Tapia e INNER GROUP, e tem como objetivo destacar os melhores vinhos da América do Latina. Todos os assuntos abordados no evento também podem ser encontrados no Guia Descorchados 2024. Nesta edição, o leitor encontrará a avaliação e classificação dos vinhos, sugestões de pratos para harmonização e uma exploração das regiões vitivinícolas da Argentina, Brasil, Chile e Uruguai. Os exemplares estão disponíveis nas versões impressa (R$ 295,00) e/ou digital (265,50) na internet.

abri/24, com copy a.seb via Orantes -- @orantesc.com

[cherrypicker21]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Bettye Muller Concept Brett Heeled Sandal NWT.

[wqbytop100]

WQBY

Top 100 for the week ending April 30, 2023

Pearls----Jessie Ware -1

Pwdr Blu----Kx5 -8

Where You Are----John Summit, Hayla -7

Submarine----Seeb, BANNERS, SUPER-Hi -10

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High Heels - Party Down Under-----Flo Rida, Walker Hayes, *Sam Feldt remix -12

If We Ever Broke Up----Mae Stephens -2

Just The Kinda Feeling----Yotto, Lost Boy -13

Here We Go Again-----Oliver Tree, David Guetta -19

Heaven-----Niall Horan -16

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Something's Coming----Cheat Codes, Lady A -4

Reborn-----SIDEPIECE, *Kyle Walker remix -3

Crying On The Dancefloor----Sam Feldt, Jonas Blue, Endless Summer, Violet Days -30

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Take Me Home----VAVO, Clara Mae -11

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Stereo----SUM SUN, Sly Chance -100

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Anyway----Cash Cash f/ Ruthanne -36

Church Outfit-----Poppy -62

Back To You----Lost Frequencies, Elley Duhe, X Ambassadors -61

Whistle-----Jax Jones, Calum Scott -34

Feels This Good--Sigala, Mae Muller, Caity Baser, Stefflon Don -44

Part Of Me----Cian Ducrot -20

Money On The Dash----Elley Duhe, Whethan -31

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Gimme That Bounce----Mau P -40

<>*Dancing All Alone----Morgan Page, TELYKAST -(re-entry)

<>*Sleepwalking----Matt Sassari, Goodboys -(re-entry)

River----Mylie Cyrus -48

You Know What I Need----PNAU, Troye Sivan -21

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Heart Wants What It Wants----Bebe Rexha -46

<>*Pegasus-----MEDUZA, Eli & Fur -(re-entry)

Hurt That You Gave Me----Cheat Codes, Brett Young -47

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***SunKissing----Hailee Steinfield (new entry)

Hanging On----Bob Moses, *CRi remix -60

***Lost Souls-----Jeffery Sutorius, Jay Hardway -(new entry)

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***Rodman-----MIke (live version) -(new entry)

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***Jacare----Sofi Tukker (new entry)

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***Broken-----Isak Danielson, *Lost Frequencies remix (new entry)

***Change----LAUREL -(new entry)

***No One Knows We're Dancing----Everything But The Girl -(new entry)

***Too Many Things----The Linda Lindas(new entry)

***This Is What Losing Someone Feels Like----JVKE -(new entry)

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***Don't Give Up---Zoe Wees -(new entry)

***I Will Fall-----Pet Shop Boys -(new entry)

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Makin Time----Sultan + Shepard, Julia Church -35

***Parallel Universe (That Should Be Me)----NIIKO & SWAE, Frawley -(new entry)

Born With A Broken Heart----Olivia O'Brien -85

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Drop Stop Roll----Rainbow Kitten Surprise -88

***Marching On----Greg Gould, *Dave Aude remix -(new entry)

***Sweat-----ESSEL -(new entry)

***Afraid Of The Dark-----TALK -(new entry)

Begin Again----Jessie Ware -91

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Can't Tame Her----Zara Larson -52

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3re-entrys 15 new

[radwolf76]

Here is a series of images that I'd saved from a now defunct blog, images that supposedly originated on the MSPA Forums shortly after the Breaking Of The Internet:

And here's some text in a pastebin (I don't remember the source) that goes into further detail about the whole thing.

And of course, here's a decent YouTube mirror of [S] Cascade itself. Obviously spoilers if you haven't gotten to that part of Homestuck yet, but even going into it with zero context you can still appreciate the spectacle of it, especially the parts where the animation escapes the confines of its borders to expand to fill the whole MSPA web page:

Gather ‘round, children, and listen to an old Homestuck tell the story of The Day Andrew Hussie Broke the Internet.

See, back in 2011, when Homestuck was at its peak popularity, mspaintadventures.com was getting over a million hits a day.  It outpaced a couple of the top news sites at the time put together–I think one of them was CNN.com, actually, but it’s been almost a decade, I can’t remember which ones specifically.  If you see cosplayers having minor PTSD breakdowns about gray facepaint, it’s because we were everywhere at conventions.  Homestuck fans roved in packs, meming incomprehensibly on people and generally making a nuisance of ourselves in the most well-meaning manner possible.

Hussie knew that he was about to drop thirteen minutes of footage on millions of rabid fans, in the form of a flash video that messed with the very structure of the website itself.  (No, seriously, it was mind-blowing at the time.)

So he partnered with Newgrounds, getting them to host the flash itself, hoping it would keep his own website from shattering into a million pieces.

Now, at the time, Newgrounds was one of the biggest deals on the internet.  It’s where every major Flash artist and video maker went to upload their creations.  It was a lawless wasteland, but it was also a creative bastion that got TONS of traffic, one that could weather almost any storm the internet could create.  Its owners were confident they could handle the traffic.

Boy howdy were they wrong.

Homestuck updated with half a dozen pages every day, so people were used to a constant flow of content, but by the time [S] Cascade was ready to drop, Hussie hadn’t posted any pages in a month and a half.  We were all on edge; the MSPA update desktop apps had been sitting there without pinging that whole time, we all knew something Fucking Massive was about to hit us, but none of us were prepared for what actually happened.

The mind-blowing nature of the flash itself is a story for another post, sadly, because we’re here to talk about everything else that happened that fateful night.

The night Hussie broke the internet.

The flash dropped.

Hundreds of thousands of people had their MSPA notification bots pop open, giving quite a few of us heart attacks.

Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people descended upon mspaintadventures.com to view the new flash.

And, within a handful of minutes, Homestuck fans had crashed Newgrounds.

The behemoth.  The titan.  Newgrounds had fallen before the collective might of a million stir-crazy webcomic fans.  Fortunately, however, several people had loaded the whole of Cascade on their computers, and decided to host a livestreaming party so other fans could see it!

And promptly took down livestream.com.

Hussie himself uploaded the animation to megaupload.com.

Megaupload was crushed under its weight.

Some of the more enterprising fans decided to record Cascade as a video and upload it to Dropbox.

Dropbox shattered under the blow.

I think this cascaded to a couple other websites, but the one most relevant to you, o Tumblr user, is that the Homestuck fanbase had a huge presence on this very website–still does, honestly–and the sheer number of people talking about the Cascade SNAFU crashed Tumblr a couple times.

This was unprecedented.  This wasn’t a DDoS attack, this wasn’t a virus, this wasn’t any kind of malicious assault on the hubs of the Internet.  This was just one single excited fanbase desperate to consume a piece of media that they’d been building up to for two and a half years of constant drip-feeding.  This wasn’t malice, this wasn’t trolling, this wasn’t an attack.

This was the day Homestuck broke the internet under the weight of its fandom’s love.

I think that’s kind of beautiful, honestly.

[longerbox]

What is there to guilt someone with if hell won’t do the trick?

[ourpickwickclub]

@brettgrace just posted some tweets about gwen's new album, he is sophie muller's godson so he probably knows what's going on. he seems like a nice kid and is always so supportive of gwen

Thanks for sharing. I always wonder how Brett ended up connected to Sophie. I don’t think she’s an old friend of his family.

— M

[filmnoirfoundation]

ASK EDDIE returns this Thursday, August 3, 7:00 PM PT to our Facebook page.

FNF prez Eddie Muller responds to film noir fan questions fielded by the Foundation's Director of Communications Anne Hockens . In this episode, we discuss “Sleep, My Love”, “Phantom Lady”, the precursors to Jules Dassin’s “The Naked City", film noir villains, our favorite character actors, Ida Lupinoand more. We also give our recommendations for books that were made into film noirs. On the cat front, Charlotte is a background player and Emily won’t come out of her trailer. Want your question answered in a future episode? We solicit questions from our email subscribers in our monthly newsletters. Sign up for free at https://www.filmnoirfoundation.org/signup.html

Everyone who signs up on our email list and contributes $20 or more to the Film Noir Foundation receives the digital version of NOIR CITY Magazine for a year. Donate here: https://www.filmnoirfoundation.org/contribute.html

Can’t join us on Thursday? No problem! A recording will be up on our YouTube channel, @NoirCity, on Friday, August 4: https://www.youtube.com/user/NoirCitySF

Note: Eddie will not be able to answer questions posted during the livestream nor ones left on our social media accounts

This week’s questions:

Do you think that the CRIME DOES NOT PAY shorts series is a precursor to films like THE NAKED CITY?

Liz

Keep seeing Alfred Newman name for music credits.  Was he the inspiration for Mad Magazine’s Character? 

Kitaman

How have the classic noirs and noir performers fared at Oscar nomination time? Any egregious snubs?

Ben

Why is Hitchcock's NOTORIOUS never shown anymore? And 1948’s SLEEP, MY LOVE with Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche and Robert Cummings. If it's in the "vault" any possibility of its ever showing

Jenene

I think PHANTOM LADY isn't merely overrated, it's awful. Really none of it rings true. The whole film is weak, I think. Most especially Franchot Tone. Interested if you agree.

Nick

The collision of humor and noir is an interesting topic, don’t you think? I was thinking about this recently when I saw Dick Powell in the very weird, 1951 film YOU NEVER CAN TELL.  What is your favorite example of humor in classic film noir?

Kingpin Johnny, Doylestown, PA

Is there an actor that has played a villain in more than one film noir movies? And the performance was memorable.

Jeff from Brooklyn

Who is your favorite film noir character actor and why?

Harry, West Chester, PA

My question is about Ida Lupino's story.  Did it become a movie, or maybe more important, could it?  Based on what you said it appears to be perfect for these times.

Barb

Can you recommend books to read that were eventually made into film noirs?

Valencia

By any chance, are Eddie Muller, Anne Hockens, and/or the Film Noir Foundation using Letterboxd? Letterboxd lets you keep track of movies you have watched. You can rate them, log them in a diary-style Brett- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

I wrote a short film screenplay (6 pages) for a present-day noir which I sent to the Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards, for analysis only. They gave it a favorable score, but I think it would have been higher if they read it as a film noir. My question is, if you are trying to write a screenplay reflecting the aesthetics of Film Noir, is there an organization I can send it to that can judge it for what it is?

William

THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE: Noir or Not?

Doug, Silver Spring, MD

What are your opinions on these German crime films:

IT HAPPENED IN BROAD DAYLIGHT (1958)

THE DEVIL STRIKES AT NIGHT (1957)

WET ASPHALT (1958)

ALIBI (1955)

STOLEN IDENTITY (1953)

A DEGREE OF MURDER (1967)

WHIRLPOOL (1959)

And are there precursors to the currently popular Scandinavian noir films?

Greetings from the Netherlands, Maarten

Did you ever have the chance to meet either Siskel or Ebert, and talk about movies with them? Did they share any special insights about noir movies with you?

Dan from South Dakota

[wherethedragonends]

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via Politics – FiveThirtyEight

Rather suddenly, we are on a trajectory toward the potential impeachment of President Trump.

Both close allies of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and vulnerable Democrats in swing districts have signaled their desire this week to pursue impeachment proceedings over President Trump’s alleged efforts to induce Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into investigating Joe Biden, whose son Hunter Biden served on the board of a Ukranian gas producer during Biden’s tenure as vice president. A majority of House Democrats had already expressed a desire to impeach Trump over his conduct toward Russia in the 2016 campaign and his handling of the Russia investigation, but the list of pro-impeachment Democrats then included relatively few from competitive districts, and Pelosi had largely held the reins against impeachment.

This time is different. Although the story is still unfolding as I write this, impeachment is, at a minimum, highly plausible. And if Pelosi wants impeachment — as she reportedly does — she can probably get it. Democrats have a fairly comfortable majority in the House and they have been relatively unified under Pelosi. Betting markets, which had been bearish on impeachment, now assign around a 50 percent chance that Trump will be impeached (but not necessarily removed from office) during his first term.

But Democrats had better hope that something else is different this time too: public opinion. Despite Trump being quite unpopular, and despite the public largely buying Democrats’ interpretation of the fact pattern on Russia — most polls find that a majority of the public thinks that Trump sought to obstruct the investigation into Russia, for instance — impeachment was a soundly unpopular proposition.

In the table below, I’ve compiled data on all polls from PollingReport.com, a compendium of high-quality telephone surveys, on whether the public thinks Trump should be impeached or at least that Congress should begin impeachment proceedings.1 And despite the slightly different question wordings — you could favor holding hearings on impeaching Trump but not actually favor his impeachment per se2 — these polls have tended to produce similar results: Impeachment was an unpopular option through the entirely of the Russia investigation process.

On average, in all polls since the start of 2017, 38.5 percent of the public favored impeachment and 55.7 percent opposed it, which is fairly close to a mirror image of Trump’s approval and disapproval ratings. And there had been absolutely no sign that the public was moving toward impeachment. If anything, the opposite was true and impeachment had become slightly less popular. Polls conducted after the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report to the public on April 183 showed an average of 37.3 percent of the public favoring impeachment, and 57.3 percent opposed. The two polls in the database conducted since Mueller’s testimony to Congress on July 24 showed even worse numbers: 33.5 percent in favor of impeachment and 59.5 percent against.

This article is meant to be forward-looking, rather than a comprehensive analysis of all facets of public opinion related to the Russia investigation. But numbers like these ought to at least give Democrats pause. Heretofore, quite a lot of voters have both disapproved of Trump’s conduct and disapproved of impeaching him.

Why this gap has persisted isn’t entirely clear. Pelosi’s reluctance on impeachment undoubtedly dissuaded some Democratic voters from getting on board; the most recent Quinnipiac poll found only 61 percent of Democrats in favor of impeachment and 29 percent opposed. Those numbers may increase now that House leadership is coming around to impeachment.

The same poll, however, found independent voters mostly against impeachment — 62 percent opposed it to 28 percent in favor. That’s despite Trump having only a 35 percent approval rating among independents in the poll. So impeachment has given Democrats problems among swing voters as well.

Another explanation may simply be that the public has a high threshold for impeachment, especially for an elected president and especially especially when that president will be on the ballot again soon. By contrast, Andrew Johnson was an unelected president when he was impeached — he had taken over the presidency after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. And the impeachment proceedings against Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton took place in their second terms. Voters may not think Russia met that threshold; in fact, the Russia investigation itself was the lowest priority for midterm election voters among 12 issues that Gallup asked about last year.

One explanation that doesn’t make any sense — but which seems to come up from pro-impeachment partisans every time I’ve pointed out impeachment’s lack of popularity — is the notion that the Democrats simply weren’t focused enough on the Russia investigation or that the public didn’t know enough about it. In fact, the Russia investigation has been one of the most focused-upon news stories of our lifetime; it was the most-covered story of 2017 on the network news and the second most-covered of 2018 after Brett Kavanagh’s confirmation hearings. And the public has not moved toward impeachment as more and more facts have been revealed about Russia, including Mueller’s exhaustive report. This is despite the fact that, as I mentioned — feel free to browse the polling results yourself — the public mostly agrees with the Democrats’ interpretation of Muller’s findings; they do not think the report cleared Trump of wrongdoing, for instance.

Other Democrats like to cite the fact that impeachment against Nixon was initially fairly unpopular. But this comparison doesn’t entirely work either. Rather dramatic facts were being revealed throughout the Watergate investigation and impeachment process, which tended to sway public opinion. By contrast, the outlines of Mueller’s eventual findings were largely laid out for the public a long time ago, through Mueller’s various indictments and through reporting at places such as the Washington Post and the New York Times. Whereas for the past year or so at least, Democrats have had relatively little new material to work with on Russia. The increasing numbers of House Democrats who called for impeachment over the past few months didn’t seem to move public sentiment in Democrats’ favor either.

Again, none of this is meant to provide for an absolutely definitive analysis of how public opinion might have evolved if Democrats had proceeded on impeachment as a result of the Russia investigation. The sample size of impeachments is small, which make any conclusions tentative. But that uncertainty doesn’t necessarily work to Democrats’ benefit, given that the status quo is fairly promising for them electorally: Trump is quite unpopular and, although these polls don’t mean much at this stage, he currently trails all his major Democratic rivals (especially Biden, but also Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren) in head-to-head matchups. Democrats are also coming off a strong midterm.

The politics of impeachment on Ukraine may be different than on Russia. But Democrats should take public opinion seriously. That doesn’t mean you always have to do the poll-driven thing. But don’t wish the numbers away because you don’t like them, or presume that they’ll change in your favor, or assume there won’t be consequences for taking an unpopular action.

More specifically for Democrats, their failure to persuade the public that Russia warranted impeachment offers several potential lessons if they are to proceed on Ukraine:

Lesson No. 1: Be narrow and specific, perhaps with a near-exclusive focus on Ukraine. For some Democrats in Congress who were nearly ready to impeach Trump over Russia, Ukraine may have been the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back. But Democrats probably shouldn’t portray it to the public that way.

The public was largely not persuaded about the wisdom of impeaching Trump on Russia. And Ukraine provides a much clearer story, in some ways: Trump allegedly pressured a foreign leader to undermine one of his chief rivals in the 2020 election. It’s not a case of the cover-up being worse than the crime, or of Trump attempting to obstruct the investigation, or of actions that took place before Trump took office. It’s a direct, recent and relatively simple throughline. The more focused Democrats are on Ukraine specifically, the better chance that public opinion will turn out better for them than it did on Russia.

Even worse for Democrats than combining Ukraine and Russia would be to offer a laundry list of impeachment charges, involving the emoluments clause or Trump’s general conduct in office or what not. The public has a high threshold for what constitutes impeachable conduct, so reasons that are below that threshold might weaken the overall case for impeachment rather than being additive.

Furthermore, such a strategy would tend to play into the White House’s strengths. The White House is fairly skilled at muddying the news cycle and navigating its way through the swampy thicket of a story in ways that can fatigue the public. It isn’t a perfect analogy, but in the Kavanaugh hearings, the sheer volume of accusations against Kavanaugh eventually helped him; the less credible allegations allowed Kavanaugh and the White House to cast doubt on the more credible ones, such as Christine Blasey Ford’s. Throwing more accusations or alleged reasons for impeachment at Trump could likewise allow the White House to focus on the weakest ones.

Interestingly enough, the Washington Post op-ed by seven first-term Democrats calling for impeachment solely referred to Ukraine as a potential cause for impeachment. So Democratic leadership may agree with this strategy.

Lesson No. 2: Don’t overpromise on details unless you can deliver. You’ll sometimes hear the sentiment that the entire Mueller Report might have been more politically damaging to Trump if it had dropped all at once instead of slowly being teased out through indictments and news accounts and investigative reports over the course of two years. That seems reasonable enough, although there’s no way to test the hypothetical. It’s also true, though, that the public’s reaction to news events — and the media’s reaction to news events, which conditions the public’s response — is often calibrated relative to “expectations.” If the expectations get too far ahead of themselves, even a relatively damaging story may land with a thud.

Without relitigating the Mueller Report more than we have to, it’s safe to say that it provided neither the total exoneration that the president claimed, nor the direct evidence of collusion with Russia that Democrats might have been hoping for. That’s to say nothing of the breathless speculation about what the Mueller Report would say on cable news, or the too-frequent reporting missteps on important Russia-related stories (even if, in my view anyway, the press largely got the big picture right on Russia).

The fact that Ukraine is a much simpler story than Russia again works to Democrats’ benefit here: There are fewer details to screw up. But if Democrats promise caught-red-handed evidence above and beyond what’s been made public already (the White House has not exactly been steadfast in its denials) and doesn’t deliver on it, it’s obviously going to injure their case. And it should go without saying that the more damaging the information, the harder it could be for Democrats to obtain. That Trump has pledged to release a “fully declassified and unredacted transcript” of his phone conversation with Zelensky might make Democrats a little nervous since Trump presumably wouldn’t release it so soon if it contained many bombshells.

Lesson No. 3: Emphasize the threats to election integrity. As I mentioned, I suspect (though I certainly can’t prove) that some of the public’s reluctance on impeachment over Russia stemmed from the fact that Trump was still in his first term and is running for re-election. We want to decide this one for ourselves, the public may have been saying.

In some ways, that’s a bigger problem for Democrats on Ukraine, since the election is even closer now. But, of course, the Ukraine scandal involves the 2020 election: Trump’s efforts to impair Biden’s candidacy. My point is simply that Democrats should emphasize that angle since any impeachment hearings would take place directly against the backdrop of the election, a prospect that voters might otherwise find strange.

Lesson No. 4: Stay unified. As I said above, I don’t think Democratic infighting over impeachment on Russia explains all, or necessarily most, of its unpopularity with the general public. But it probably explains some of it. This tends to be one of Pelosi’s strengths, but the more Democrats are willing to sink or swim together on Ukraine impeachment, the more compelling their message is liable to be to the general public.

Lesson No. 5: Work quickly and urgently. Now that they’ve seemingly decided to move forward on Ukraine, there are lots of reasons for Democrats to move fast. It will reduce the potential for public fatigue over the story, which can set in quickly for all news stories in the Trump era. And a sense of urgency could underscore some of the other themes here, e.g. that there’s an immediate threat to the integrity of the 2020 election, to national security, or both.

Obviously, Democrats will need to weigh moving rapidly against Lesson No. 2 (the risk of getting too far ahead of themselves). Nobody said impeachment would be easy for anyone involved!

But the other benefit to moving fast is that, if impeachment backfires on Democrats and makes Trump more popular, Democrats will have more time to recover from that. Impeachment isn’t necessarily an all-in bet for Democrats, but it’s an awfully big one.

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Of Lesser Men Imagine yourself in school. You are 8 years old and it is recess time. You look for your friends, for the boys it is baseball or football, and the natural leaders set up teams and it begins. This is humanity, from its roots as hunter-gatherers so many hundreds of thousands of years ago, this is the natural order of things. Then, some would not survive. Guile and weakness was seldom rewarded. With the onset of “civilization” that changed. Where, at one time, the natural leaders became royalty or nobility, the need to pass on power though lineage went awry and these bloodlines through inbreeding and degeneration became the Deep State, physical weaklings, moral reprobates, tasked with selecting more of the same and moving them into positions of authority. The goal has been division, entropy, suffering, and managing the expectations of those of promise, pushing them into piracy, banditry or killing them in wars. Thus, when we find ourselves, even the strongest of us, the best of the best as it were, subject to rule by our lessers, “under the thumb” of those who, as children, we shunned as cowardly or vile, why do we recoil in surprise? What was left runs Washington, London and Paris, other capitols as well, the “lesser men,” damaged, confused, inferior, pushed up the ladder, the chosen people, a class of “Untermensch.” America’s ruling elite, when examined, for the most part resemble a form of reverse Darwinism. We are going to be calling the comic tragedy of the Muller investigation what it really is, “MuellerGate.” Any possibility that there was ever an investigation of anything intended is gone but the real reasons might well startle all but the most paranoid or well-informed watchers. What began as RussiaGate is playing out as not just fakery, but a complex and well-crafted intelligence operation intended to destabilize both the United State and Russia with full complicity of the press, those who control the press from the inside. It was always not only a wrong assumption by insane as well to assume that somehow, the controlled corporate media, would declare war on a presidency that has been so friendly to the oil industry, Wall Street, big polluters and the big pharma “poisoners.” The only other force handling this much cash is the CIA/Deep State worldwide heroin ring run out of Afghanistan and Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo, with the help of well known and powerful American families, names very much like Romney, Bush and Walton, according to an FBI whistleblower who came forward in 2012. When Mueller investigators interrogated me in 2018, I brought the debriefing recordings with me and offered to play them. It nearly cleared the room. Here is what is playing out as of mid-April, 2019: Democrats who control congress are planning to subpoena the entire Mueller Report and to question both Mueller and Barr. Legal experts are saying that only a preliminary impeachment process provides needed statutory authority for this effort. The public, perhaps a majority approaching 60%, is hanging on this drama, waiting to “get Donald Trump” as though he were a masked villain in a fake professional wrestling match, which of course he is. What has been purposefully forgotten is that both Mueller and Barr are “lesser men.” Both, according to sources, were CIA recruits early in life. During Vietnam, the CIA began profiling a new generation to carry them past their roots. The CIA’s roots are Nazi Germany’s Abwehr. Their profile included intellectual ability combined with a bevy of negative traits including social psychopathy, feelings of inferiority and intense guilt, and a powerful need for approval and affirmation from authority figures. Two of my good friends, one a senior Army intelligence officer and the other a high-ranking FBI official, both “the best of the best” tried to get into the CIA and were turned away. They weren’t crazy enough. According to sources, both Barr and Mueller were “crazy enough” and for 4 decades or more, have been close personal friends while operating in and out of the corridors of power on behalf of what is now termed the Deep State. Similarly, Mueller and Comey as FBI directors were close friends. Remember, it was Comey that only days before the 2016 election put out highly derogatory and utterly unnecessary statements about the Clinton email case. That case, of course, was a fabrication of a GOP congress that spent endless millions concerned about “classified emails” that, thus far, were utterly without substance. Moreover, anything from the State Department that a Secretary of State wants to make pubic or declassify, has the full authority to do as the President does the same for the White House. Trump does this continually. Before that it was the phony Benghazi investigation and before that, Hillary Clinton was accused of personally murdering Vince Foster. Let us not forget the Clinton impeachment and the role of Kenneth Starr as prosecutor. Starr was a longtime acolyte of Richard Mellon Scaife, a typical James Bond bad guy, scion of one of the biggest Deep State banking families who simply bought Starr and spent millions hiring thugs of various kinds to smear the Clintons. Starr had been promised a seat on the US Supreme Court if he got Clinton. He failed but his “man,” Brett Kavanaugh, now holds a seat on the high court as a surrogate, we are told, for failed and disgraced Ken Starr. A key to understanding the dynamic is knowing that everything the public sees or is allowed to see is scripted. Comey went after Clinton not to damage or influence the election but to create the appearance of doing so while, as had happened in 2000 and 2004, Deep State operatives working with local election officials, literally thousands of them, simply hacked the election count. This has been investigated, studied and written of so many times and is forgotten and shelved. Everyone is complicit. Past that, every candidate is always from the same pool, either hopelessly insane like Trump or Bush 43 or deeply flawed or crippled like Bill Clinton or Barak Obama. When someone different sneaks in like Jimmie Carter, the answer is simple. The Federal Reserve cuts off the money supply, collapsing the economy and the CIA stages a coup in Iran in order to move Reagan in. Part of America’s suppressed history is the truth about Reagan, BCCI, Iran Contra and the collapse of America’s industrial economy, all done while America’s middle class disappeared. This was no accident. MuellerGate is a critical component of a “lesser man” ploy. Mueller and Barr, we assume, are in continual contact as they are constant companions, lifelong companions, who have planned and executed Deep State operations over and over during their careers. Barr exists to fabricate childishly absurd legal opinions. Read one of them. His early letter on the RussiaGate investigation, castigating his best friend Robert Mueller as dangerously incompetent, is classic deception and cover. Then, lo and behold, Mueller finishes an investigation that takes forever. The nation focuses on little else while everything that can be broken or stolen in the nation is broken and stolen. There are 3 White Houses, one in New York at Trump Tower, now a Secret Service protected home for the headquarters of the Kosher Nostra while at Mar-a-Lago, Chinese billionaires are buying America on the cheap. The White House in Washington is now “Tel Aviv on the Potomac.” Making it all work is the three-act play staged by the worst actors in the world, villain Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi of the fake left, and a cast of thousands. It was evident what was going to happen from the get go with the public sucked in the Mueller drama, taking it all seriously, while the GOP’s control of the Senate and the generalized agreement that a sitting president cannot be indicted. In fact, there is no such provision in the constitution whatsoever. The legal concept is the creation of now sitting Federal District Judge Raymond Moss, written in 2000 at the behest of then Attorney General Janet Reno. Was Reno expecting Bill Clinton to start murdering White House visitors on live television? That is, perhaps, the only rationale for a legal opinion that has entrained itself as a keystone of Deep State security. This is from Lawrence Tribe, perhaps the nation’s leading authority on the constitution: “In a recent opinion piece, I argued that the text and structure of the Constitution, a serious commitment to the rule of law, and plain good sense combine to preclude a rigid policy of “delaying any indictment of a president for crimes committed in winning the presidency.” My op-ed argued against the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) memos opining that the Constitution prevents the indictment of a sitting president. Nearly everyone concedes that any such policy would have to permit exceptions. The familiar hypothetical of a president who shoots and kills someone in plain view clinches the point. Surely, there must be an exception for that kind of case: Having to wait until the House of Representatives impeaches the alleged murderer and the Senate removes him from office before prosecuting and sentencing him would be crazy. Nobody seriously advocates applying the OLC mantra of “no indictment of a sitting president” to that kind of case. The same is true for any number of other cases that come readily to mind. Among those, in my view, must be the not-so-hypothetical case of a president who turns out to have committed serious crimes as a private citizen in order to win the presidency. Whether the president committed such crimes in collusion with a shady group of private collaborators or did so in conspiracy with one or more foreign adversaries, it should not be necessary for the House to decide that such pre-inaugural felonies were impeachable offenses and for the Senate to convict and remove the officeholder before putting him in the dock as an alleged felon and meting out justice.” Conclusion Are people like May or Macron or Trump little more than circus clowns? Is everything scripted, where the chance of peace breaking out, of justice and righteousness infecting the absurd global processes inoculated against? Are the current moves around the world to criminalize expression of these very thoughts an indication of how blatant and egregious the lesser men have become?