Green Day – Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don’t know where it goes
But it’s home to me and I walk aloneI walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
and I’m the only one and I walk aloneI walk alone
I walk aloneI walk alone
I walk a…My shadow’s the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart’s the only thing that’s beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
‘Til then I walk aloneAh-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Aaah-ah,
Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ahI’m walking down the line
That divides me somewhere in my mind
On the border line
Of the edge and where I walk aloneRead between the lines
What’s fucked up and everything’s alright
Check my vital signs
To know I’m still alive and I walk aloneI walk alone
I walk aloneI walk alone
I walk a…My shadow’s the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart’s the only thing that’s beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
‘Til then I walk aloneAh-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Aaah-ah
Ah-ah, Ah-ahI walk alone
I walk a…I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I’m the only one and I walk a…My shadow’s the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart’s the only thing that’s beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
‘Til then I walk alone…
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The Stranger (1946)
Watch , The Stranger, an Orson Welles’s noir on-line free at RetroTV. Stars Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, and Orson Welles. IMDB Rating 7.5/10. From the New York Times review of the movie’s recent DVD release:
Books On Film Search
Virtual-History.Com is a great site for tracking down books on film noir generally and any books that refer to a certain film. For example this search link will not only return books on The Third Man, but a list of books that substantially reference that film:
Books about The Third Man:
Rob White, The Third Man, London, 2003
Books with substantial mentioning of The Third Man:
David Zinman, 50 Classic Motion Pictures, The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of, New York, 1970
JerryVermilye, The Great British Films, Secaucus, N.J., 1978
Ann Lloyd (editor), Movies of the Forties, London, 1982
Anthony Slide, Fifty Classic Films 1932-1982, A Pictorial Record, New York, 1985
Neil Sinyard, Classic Movies, London, 1993
William Hare, Early Film Noir, Greed, Lust and Murder Hollywood Style, Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2003
Books with entries on The Third Man:
Michael F. Keaney, Film Noir Guide, 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959, Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2003
The Killers (1946) – Siodmak and The Death of Humanism
Jim Groom of the BavaTuesday Blog has written an interesting post on Robert Siodmak’s The Killers, featuring a chilling clip from the opening scene of this classic noir.
… The first 10 minutes of The Killers is noir at its meanest and most brutal, particularly because it is framed by a historical moment in which the is world reeling from the realization of the violent extremes that humanity is all too capable of. Film Noir in many ways marks the end of humanism through the filmic language and ushers in the rise of our modern era…
Posterman: Rare Original Movie Posters
Another interesting movie poster house. This unique collection includes some original mainly foreign noir posters, and is well worth exploring.
Check out these samples:
Kiss Me Deadly (1955): Hollywood Dada
Watched Kiss Me Deadly
While she only appears briefly at the start of the film, the performance of Cloris Leachman as the doomed Christina, pervades the film until the cataclysmic finale. A must-see movie!
I love this Italian poster, which has taken some liberties – unless I missed the nude scene…
New DVD: Japanese Noir from Hiroshi Teshigahara
Must a man become a demon just to survive?
– Otsuka (Hisashi Igawa), in Pitfall
Criterion has today released a DVD set of three films by Hiroshi Teshigahara from the period 1962-66:
Pitfall
Woman in the Dunes
The Face of Another
The films have been reviewed by Jon Danziger of DigitallyObsessed.com
Quicksand (1950)
Watch , Quicksand, a minor 50’s noir on-line free at RetroTV. Stars some big names: Mickey Rooney, Jeanne Cagney, Barbara Bates, and Peter Lorre.
This is the story of a nice guy who borrows $20 from a cash register to keep a date… with a cop… and a killer!” After borrowing $20 from his employer’s cash register, an auto mechanic is plunged into a series of increasingly disastrous circumstances which rapidly spiral out of his control.
Criss-Cross (1949)
I watched the Robert Siodmak noir, Criss Cross
The exotic Rumba dance sequence at the beginning of the movie is really fun, and signals that it is the director’s skill that saves this film from mediocrity.
As far as noirs go, Criss-Cross is is atypical. It is more a cautionary tale of besotted love. There is a fatalistic element, but the male lead, Steve Thompson, played with just the right degree of bewilderment by Burt Lancaster, is not so much dealt a raw deal by fate but by his own naivety. The femme, Anna, the Yvonne de Carlo role, is not really a fatale, but the obscure object of desire – the Bunuel pun is intentional – that is Steve’s undoing. Dan Duryea, as always, delivers a solid performance as the bad guy, and veteran character actor, Percy Hilton, is engaging as the wily but sincere bartender.
But it is the cinematic composition by Siodmak and cameraman, and fellow German, Franz Planer, that remains in the memory.
The aerial opening credits where the camera swoops down into the dance-club parking lot onto a passing car, which in its wake exposes the doomed lovers to the spotlight.
The narrow bar to which Steve inexorably returns to find Anna, and the dark and sordid back-alley, where Steve washes off a drunken stupor.
The no-turning back one-way ramp out of the armored car HO.
The hawk’s-eye panning shot as Steve drives the armored car between the giant silos of an industrial plant, which by pinning the car to a must-follow root presages the claustrophobic ambush ahead.
The Wrong Man (1956) Poster
I have just added 110 new posters to the Films Noir Poster Gallery, and was particularly struck with one for Hitchcock’s The Wrong Man
It must be one of the best movie posters of the 50’s. Click this thumbnail for a larger alternate version:
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