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Ischeznovenie (2007 TVM)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 6, 2019
vt The Disappearance
Russia, Ukraine / 93 minutes / color / Mostelefilm, Russkoe Schastie Dir: Yelena Strizhevskaya Pr: Valentin Opaliov, Vlad Riashin Scr: Lyudmila Pivovarova Cine: Andrey Kavardakov Cast: Dmitriy Dyuzhev, Olga Sutulova, Yelena Doronina, Viktoriya Fisher, Petr Savchenko, Oleg Kuznet read more
Blockade (1938)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 2, 2019
US / 84 minutes / bw / Walter Wanger Productions, United Artists Dir: William Dieterle Pr: Walter Wanger Scr: John Howard Lawson, with James M. Cain and Clifford Odets (both uncredited) Cine: Rudolph Maté Cast: Madeleine Carroll, Henry Fonda, Leo Carrillo, John Halliday, Reginald Denny, Vladimir Sok read more
Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh (1991 DTV)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Oct 31, 2019
Well, since it’s Halloween, let’s hear it for . . . US / 89 minutes / color / Saratoga Films, Paramount Home Video Dir & Scr: Dean Tschetter Pr: James A. Baffico, Laurence Barbera, Beverly Penberthy Story: Tom Tully Cine: Peter Reniers Cast: Jake Dengel, Joe Sharkey, Susann Fletcher, Beverly read more
book: The Gray Flannel Shroud (1959) by Henry Slesar
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Oct 31, 2019
A lightweight, lighthearted piece of slick 1950s crime/mystery fiction that deservedly earned the author the 1960 Edgar Award for Best First Novel — I say “deservedly” even though I imagine there’ll be many a modern reader who’ll be incredulous about the lack of intros read more
book: Jemima Shore’s First Case, and Other Stories (1986) by Antonia Fraser
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Oct 30, 2019
I read a couple of Antonia Fraser’s Jemima Shore mysteries back in the day, and remember them as modestly entertaining. I didn’t catch the TV serialization of Quiet as a Nun, and at most I saw a single episode of the later TV series Jemima Shore Investigates, with Patricia Hodge in the read more
Der Raub der Mona Lisa (1931)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Oct 30, 2019
Germany / 87 minutes / bw / Tobis-Klangfilm, Super-Film Dir: Géza von Bolváry Pr: Julius Haimann Scr: Walter Reisch Cine: Willi Goldberger Cast: Willi Forst, Trude von Molo, Gustav Gründgens, Max Gülstorff, Anton Pointner, Rosa Valetti, Fritz Odemar, Roda-Roda, Fritz Grünbaum, Paul Kemp, Fritz read more
book: After I’m Gone (2014) by Laura Lippman
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Oct 29, 2019
The last two Laura Lippman books I’ve read I enthused about. Although I enjoyed After I’m Gone a fair amount, it didn’t seem to me to hit those same heights. In 1976 Baltimore numbers crook Felix Brewer fled a hefty prison rap, leaving behind his beloved bride Bambi, their three s read more
book: The Nightspinners (2003) by Lucretia Grindle
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Oct 29, 2019
I was recently completely bowled over by Grindle’s later novel Villa Triste , and so was naturally eager to try her other work. My hopes were amply satisfied by The Nightspinners. It’s a very different novel, but it’s every bit as superbly written. Susannah and Marina grew up as read more
book: The Art of Arrow Cutting (1997) by Stephen Dedman
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Oct 29, 2019
Lurking somewhere between magic realism and urban fantasy, though heavily more toward the latter than the former, this is an agreeable romp that begs not to be taken too seriously. By its end you’ll know more about the monsters (and mobsters) of Japanese folklore than perhaps you did before y read more
Beast (2017)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Oct 26, 2019
UK / 107 minutes / color / Stray Bear, Agile, Film 4, BFI, Altitude Dir & Scr: Michael Pearce Pr: Ivana MacKinnon, Lauren Dark, Kristian Brodie Cine: Benjamin Kračun Cast: Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn, Geraldine James, Trystan Gravelle, Shannon Tarbet, Charley Palmer Rothwell, Hattie Gotobed, Ol read more
The Happytime Murders (2018)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Oct 23, 2019
US, China / 91 minutes / color / STX Entertainment, Huayi Brothers, Black Bear, TMP, On the Day, Henson Alternative, Jim Henson Company Dir: Brian Henson Pr: Brian Henson, Jeffrey Hayes Scr: Todd Berger Story: Todd Berger, Dee Austin Robertson Cine: Mitchell Amundsen Puppetry: Kevin Clash (Puppet Ca read more
book: Criminal Damage (1992) by Margaret Yorke
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Oct 21, 2019
Margaret Yorke’s work is an acquired taste that I never fully acquired, and so, when I saw this novel for sale (with its fabulous cover, by Merrit Deckle), I thought I should revisit her to see if my tastes might have changed after a gap of very many years. The answer is sort of yes . . . and read more
book: Ghost Wall (2018) by Sarah Moss
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Oct 21, 2019
I would probably have loved this had I listened to an audiobook version (not that I ever do listen to audiobooks, but this is just a hypothetical, you understand). As it was, I read the book in the print version and so had to cope with the author’s idiosyncratic ideas on punctuation, which me read more
Skumtimmen (2013)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Oct 19, 2019
Sweden / 98 minutes / color / Sveriges Television, Nouvago, 5ta Avenida, Svenska Filminsitutet, Nordisk, Yellow Bird, Fundament Dir: Daniel Alfredson Pr: Søren Stærmose, Lars Pettersson Scr: Daniel Alfredson, Birgitta Bongenhielm Story: Skumtimmen (2007; vt Echoes from the Dead) by Johan Theorin Cin read more
book: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (20009; trans 2018 Antonia Lloyd-Jones) by Olga Tokarczuk
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Oct 17, 2019
Tokarczuk received the Nobel Literature Prize the other day, and so I scuttled along to my local library to borrow this book, which was the only one of hers they had. For once the dearth of an author’s books was actually rather cheering: Tokarczuk’s English-language translation have app read more
book: The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) by Mohsin Hamid
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Oct 16, 2019
I picked up this shortish book on impulse recently and am very glad I did so. It was only when I got it home that I noticed (duh) that it had been shortlisted for the Man Booker back in the day — presumably 2007 or 2008. Somewhat to my shame, I found myself wondering if spotting the relevant read more
Section des Disparus (1956)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Oct 16, 2019
vt Seccion Desaparecidos; vt Of Missing Persons France, Argentina / 80 minutes / bw / Guaranteed, CICC, Borderie, Discifilm Dir: Pierre Chenal Pr: Jaime Cabouli, Raymond Borderie Scr: Pierre Chenal, Domingo Di Núbila, Agustín Cuzzani Story: Of Missing Persons (1950) by David Goodis Cine: Américo read more
wildly o/t book: Finn Family Moomintroll (1948; trans 1958 Elizabeth Portch) by Tove Jansson
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Oct 13, 2019
This is actually a reread for me. However, since I romped through all the Moomin books when I was about ten or twelve, I don’t think it really counts as such. That said, I was astonished by how much I remembered from well over a half-century ago. (My wife suggests I may have read it to my dau read more
book: The Chalk Man (2018) by C.J. Tudor
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Oct 13, 2019
Set partly in 1986 and partly in 2016, this sees reclusive schoolteacher Ed Adams reminisce about the events of the summer and fall when he was twelve and ran around the small town of Anderbury, not far from Bournemouth, with his little gang of pals: Fat Gav, Hoppo, Metal Mickey (whom no one really read more
Devil’s Bait (1959)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Oct 12, 2019
UK / 56 minutes / bw / Independent Artists, Rank Dir: Peter Graham Scott Pr: Julian Wintle, Leslie Parkyn Scr: Peter Johnston, Diana K. Watson Cine: Michael Reed Cast: Geoffrey Keen, Jane Hylton, Gordon Jackson, Dermot Kelly, Shirley Lawrence, Eileen Moore, Molly Urquhart, Rupert Davies, Gillian Vau read more