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Question by CJS: how do you interpret Film Noir in terms of the ‘Hollywood Style’?

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Answer by yellowshirt83
Detective movies

i think thats what you meant lol

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Question by Mark E: What film noir is this?
I have seen almost every film noir, but in the 1960′s, on TV, I saw a film about a guy wearing a trench coat. (I know, they all wore trench coats!) He had his arm in a sling at one point. He seemingly comes close to getting ‘whacked’ several times, and he has a friend who warns him to be careful all the time. At the end, he is walking on a sidewalk, a car pulls up and he is machine-gunned to death. His friend has watched the whole thing from an upstairs window and he is crying. Anyone know this?

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Answer by crash
Like you said, everybody wore trench coats. They also carried machine guns, so unless you have a few more details, I have no idea which movie you are referring to.

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Question by : where can you see characteristics of film noir in chinatown?

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Answer by BobWang
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Chinatown’s dark theme is one of the elements that places it in the category of neo-noir, the second generation of the genre known as film noir. Though the precise history of film noir is difficult to define (the term was coined in the journal Cahiers du Cinéma by Nino Frank in 1946), this genre evolved through a combination of German expressionistic drama (such as F. W. Murnau’s 1922 Nosferatu), American gangster film (Mervyn LeRoy’s 1931 Little Caesar), and popular British mystery novels (by Dorothy Sayers, H. C. Bailey, Agatha Christie, and the like). Several common features characterized film noir pictures, which were popular in the United States during the 1940s and early 1950s: the presence of a beautiful but dangerous woman (known as the femme fatale), gritty and generally urban settings, compositional tension (highly contrasting light and dark colors or oblique camera angles, for example), and themes of moral ambiguity and alienation. To prepare for the making of Chinatown, Polanski studied John Huston’s The Maltese Falcon (1941), which is accepted as the first full embodiment of film noir. (Huston himself plays Noah Cross, Chinatown’s most despicable villain). Polanski also read Raymond Chandler’s mystery novels, several of which had been made into film noir classics, such as Murder, My Sweet (1944; originally titled Farewell, My Lovely) and The Big Sleep (1946).
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Roots Rocker Eugene Ripper Returns With New EP

(PRWEB) April 21, 2006

Canadian roots rocker/songwriter Eugene Ripper releases Crackle, a four-song EP and companion piece to his latest full-length release The Ballad of Black. Ripper will mark the release with a live appearance in Toronto on May 17, 2006 at the Underground in The Drake Hotel.

Over the years Ripper has resided and been a pro-active member of the underground scenes of Toronto, Vancouver, New York and Halifax. This included producing the Fast Folk Underground Concerts Series. Ripper was part of the early 80′s Toronto punk/new wave rock scene as a member surf punk pranksters Stark Naked and The Fleshtones. He re-booted in 1985 as a neo punk folk artist bringing edge and sonic energy to the genre while embracing the songwriting traditions and sense of community. Twice nominated at the Toronto Music Awards as Best Folk Musician and honored with a fist full of nominations at the Edge 102.1 CASBY’s. His reputation as a strong live performer has placed him on festival stages from Edgefest in Toronto to The Great Canadian Party T-Bird Stadium in Vancouver and coast to coast-in clubs across Canada.

Crackle is available in it’s entirety for download at http://www.eugeneripper.com and for purchase http://www.cdbaby.com and select retail stores across Canada.

Track Listing:

1. Pulverizer Revealed 2:51

2. Tech Know Me 2:04

3. My Favourite Chair 2;25

4. New Attitude 2:36

Some Credible ink:

“Ripper puts spikes back in folk music.” Vancouver Province

“Few can turn a couple of chords into something majestic, and Eugene Ripper has the gift.” Ottawa X-Press

“Roots rock rebel summons up visions of film noir and spaghetti western not to mention Johnny Cash” Halifax Herald

A complete EPK is available at http://www.eugeneripper.com

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by Bibliothèque de Toulouse

Article by Ace Smith

Europe is often said to be the center of Medieval and Renaissance arts of the western world. Portugal shares in the distinction with some of the finest artists and architects the continent has produced over the centuries.

Notables

The country’s rich folk traditions are well-respected and include the uniquely Portuguese Fado, considered the country’s national music. Its most noted exponent was Amalia Rodrigues, the “Fado Queen” whose death in October 1999 prompted three days of national mourning.

In addition, one of the country’s noted writers, Jose Saramago, gave the country its first Nobel Price for literature a year earlier. The cities known for its Port Wine, Porto was declared the European Capital of Culture in 2001.

Cinema

Its cinema is no Hollywood but is more an industry of cinematic artisans that enjoy a small but avid market for artistic films. The oldest living direct, Manoel de Oliveira continues to make one film a year at a ripe old age of 100 and has figured in international retrospectives like in the Los Angeles Film Festival of 1992 and the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1994 to showcase Portuguese film noire.

A new wave of Portuguese cinema is spearheaded by Joao Cesar Monteiro with films like A Comedia de Deus which won the Jury’s Special Award at the 1995 Venice Film Festival.

Architecture

The best of Portugal can be seen from a landscape dotted with ancient ruins of once mighty structures that date back to the Roman conquest of the peninsula. Its medieval castles are second to none in the continent. The country is best known for its Manueline architecture that evolved with richer more intricate designs than the common architectures during the country’s age of discovery in the 14th to the 16 centuries. The Azuleo ceramic tile work is unique to the both Iberian countries that include Spain and can be seen in most churches, palaces and train stations.

Music

A country’s tradition is best gleaned from its traditional folk music that has echoes in its contemporary popular music. Portuguese traditional music uses instruments like the Arab adufe which reveal its cultural heritage from the Moorish conquest of the peninsula. The poetic nature of its music is best heard in the Pauliteiros de Miranda to the Corridinho which are preserved to this day as a testament to Portugal’s rich history.

Its native Fado is an entire music genre of its own that dates back to the early 1800s in the cities of Lisbon and Coimbra. With mournful tunes often about the poor and played with a shawl, a guitar and a beautiful voice, the Fado is esteemed as the country’s national music. GP

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Question by Habt our quell: I need TWO good “film noir” type names, one male and one female?

They don’t have to be from Films/books, but you can invent them if you want.

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Answer by Y U SO STUPID
Nick and Nora Charles

http://www.filmreference.com/images/sjff_01_img0491.jpg

…and Asta, of course.

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Billy Joel, Piano Concerto and Eastern Music Festival – World Premiere of Pop Music Icon’s Classical Work on June 23, 24, 2006

Greensboro, NC (PRWEB) April 28, 2006

The Eastern Music Festival today announced the eagerly awaited world premiere of Concerto for Piano and Orchestra by pop music star Billy Joel on June 23, 24 2006 at the War Memorial Auditorium of the Greensboro Coliseum Complex in Greensboro, North Carolina. This unprecedented collaboration will open the prestigious yet innovative American festival’s 45th consecutive season, joining a bevy of classical music heavyweights, including violinist Joshua Bell, mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade, pianist Bruce Brubaker and the Zukerman Chamber Players.

The classical music muse has led the six-time Grammy winning pianist singer/songwriter to premiere Fantasies and Delusions, a piano music collection eight years in the making that spent eighteen weeks as the number one on the Top Classical Albums Chart in 2001. This year’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra takes a step further and becomes a winsome tableau of four virtuosic movements for piano and orchestra drawn from materials in the 2001 recording. The Concerto showcases Joel’s tremendous sensibility, refreshing modesty, ingenuity, cohesiveness and organicity in classical music compositions, as well as integral arrangement by Jeffery Biegel and orchestration by Phillip Keveren.

The four movements are:

1 – Fantasy (Film Noir)

2 – Sorbetto

3 – Reverie (Villa D’Este)

4 – Nunley’s Carousel Waltz

The world premiere at the Eastern Music Festival features American pianist/arranger Jeffery Biegel whose career has garnered praises from Leonard Bernstein, as well as American conductor Stuart Malina, a Tony Award winner for his work on Joel’s Broadway hit “Movin’ Out,” at the helm of the resident Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra.

Now in its 45th year, Eastern Music Festival & School is recognized for its prodigious contributions to the field of American music and its commitment to nurturing talented American youth. The Festival brings high artistic quality to both public performances with America’s most sought-after artists and the academy for pre-professional students. Festival President and CEO Thomas Philion also successfully blends traditional and cutting-edge classical music fares with jazz, blues, salsa, and other musical offerings each summer. For more information about the Eastern Music Festival or its programs, please visit http://www.easternmusicfestival.org, or call toll-free: 1-877-833-6753.

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Set Sail for Adventure; with the Online Detective Game, Gumshoe Online

(PRWEB) May 3, 2006

Set sail on a journey of adventure, betrayal and murder in the latest Gumshoe Online mystery, “The Murky Truth.” Detectives will need all their powers of deduction to unravel this tale of piracy on the high seas.

Set in the crime ridden world of 1930′s America, Gumshoe Online blends the tense, claustrophobic feel of the ‘film noir’ thriller with the thought based gameplay of the point and click adventure game; creating a unique title that appeals to adventure gamers, internet users and fans of the crime and mystery genre.

Played using a standard web browser, “Gumshoe Online is a low-tech alternative to modern games; bringing old school adventure gaming to anyone with an internet connection” said Niclas Kjellin, the game’s co-founder. He continued to say, “This is our fifth mystery and that really shows Gumshoe Online’s longevity. As long as we keep devising new crimes, I’m sure people will keep coming back to solve them”.

To solve “The Murky Truth” you’ll have to swap the dark, dangerous streets of Wheaton City for the cabins and gangways of a luxury cruise liner. Working for Theodore Nash, the ship’s flamboyant owner; you must unmask a gang of ruthless pirates and clear your employer of any involvement in their acts of piracy.

Inside “The Murky Truth”, you’ll discover:

    Approximately 6-9 hours gameplay.

    Over 170 clues to unearth.

    More than 130 rooms to explore, spread across 5 locations.

    The chance to interrogate 25 new characters.

    14 mind bending puzzles to solve.

    Over 1200 items to examine.

To book your passage on this latest mystery, visit Gumshoe Online at http://www.gumshoe-online.com.

Gumshoe Online, where everyone has something to hide.

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As Cannes Film Festival Kicks off Abroad, America’s Hot New Teen Musical ‘In Your Dreams’ Invites Animation Proposals From Independent Film Producers Here At Home

New York, NY (PRWEB) May 18, 2006

As all eyes in the movie industry are turning to the Cannes Film Festival in France, the producers of the hot new teen musical “In Your Dreams” issued a statement today inviting the world’s independent film industry to tune in to their home-grown music and submit proposals for a potential animation project to be completed in the U.S. http://myspace.com/inyourdreamsthemusical

“Admittedly, it is a seller’s market at the Cannes Film Festival this year as a plethora of American buyers prepare to scour for possible gems,” says Zeke Farrow, the Miramax-linked creator of America’s hottest new teen musical, “In Your Dreams,” the underdog contender that is taking on Disney Channel’s “High School Musical” in a hotly fought battle for the $ 170 billion teen entertainment market. “But the film industry should not forget that there are plenty of gems right here at home.”

According to Farrow, while there are always plenty of exciting world-class films on view at Cannes, there are precious few commercial titles to buy. “At this year’s festival, which began last night with the world premiere of ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ most of the must-see titles already have distributors,” says Farrow. “And that’s not yet true of our hot new teen musical ‘In Your Dreams.’”

Indeed, Farrow admits that the rapidly burgeoning ranks of U.S. distributors at Cannes can expect to see many films that they like but few that they can responsibly acquire, especially given stateside audiences’ current aversion to foreign-language fare. “Unlike those films,” says Farrow, “our hot new teen musical, ‘In Your Dreams,’ was written in English, and our focus groups have told us that the use of this particular language, in many instances, enhances their viewing pleasure.”

In a year where major entertainment channel launches have been announced from Inner Tube to MSN to My Network TV — and not to mention webisode contenders by numerous animation outsiders — Farrow is confident his musical can find a home with a major, “big-buck” producer.

“We have a meeting scheduled for June with Dual Star Entertainment, which is the management company for teen stars Ashley Olsen and Mary Kate Olsen, and also for the Sprouse twins,” says Farrow. “The Olsen Twins would be great for either a live feature or an animated film. What people forget is that the Olsen Twins can sing, and in fact, they actually have a number of music CDs that have gone multi-platinum. So we are awaiting this meeting with much anticipation and confidence. Something always seems to pop up out of nowhere.”

Farrow adds that Sarah Jessica Parker’s Pretty Matches production company, which has a two-year production agreement with HBO, is still a contender for production rights. “Sarah Jessica was a child star herself, and there is a feeling in the New York entertainment community in which she is a leading light that the recent ‘slut glut’ on television may soon turn into an embarrassment of riches.”

But Farrow is open to smaller projects as well, from animation experts or even advertising agencies who are interested in animating any or all of the 13 songs that have already been recorded by Broadway stars on the “In Your Dreams” CD for their own purposes. “We have a song called ‘I Was Born To Reign’ which would be perfect for someone to animate as a spoof on Hilary Clinton’s rumored run for the presidency,” says Farrow. “And if you listen to it, you will see what I mean.” http://myspace.com/inyourdreamsthemusical

At Cannes, says Farrow, the likely outcome of this screening frenzy is that distributors with full release slates will resist the temptation to overpay, while hungrier firms with something to prove will shell out the big bucks. “Our film can probably be made right here in New York for under $ 5 million,” Farrow admonishes the movie industry. “So don’t go spending all your money on escargots.”

Movie studios that are vying for Cannes gold include Columbia Pictures, which is launching Sofia Coppola’s revisionist take on “Marie-Antoinette,” starring Kirsten Dunst in 18th century corsets; Sony Pictures Classics, which is introducing Pedro Almodovar’s dramatic “Volver,” starring Penelope Cruz in a role inspired by Anna Magnani; Paramount is debuting Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s “Babel,” starring Brad Pitt; and Al Gore’s global warming documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.” In addition Picturehouse will show Guillermo del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth”; Lionsgate will show William Friedkin’s creepy thriller “Bug,” Fox Searchlight has Richard Linklater’s controversial “Fast Food Nation;” and Warner Independent Pictures will show Linklater’s animated adaptation of the Philip K. Dick sci-fi noir “A Scanner Darkly.”

Unlike the Cannes Film Festival, which is a film festival, “In Your Dreams” is a large-scale, splashy, teen musical –- with just a dash of political satire. It centers around Helen, a seventeen-year-old girl who appears in three different incarnations: Black, Pink, and Blue.

What is helping to fuel the “In Your Dreams Express,” according to Farrow, are its 13 ingeniously lyrical songs, performed by a number of top Broadway singers, including “Trailer Park’s” Drama Desk-nominated Leslie Kritzer, “Wicked’s” Laura Bell Bundy, “Les Miserable’s” Jodie Langel, “Little Shop of Horror’s” Kerry Butler, “Thoroughly Modern Millie’s” Gavin Creel, “Hairspray’s” Jackie Hoffman, “The Full Monty’s” Sloan Just, and Anika Larsen, Danny Rocket and Anthony Rapp from “Rent.” Rhythm and blues artist Shayna Steele is also a contributor.

The stage version of “In Your Dreams” will see a showcase production at Ars Nova, the famed Manhattan performance incubator, later this summer, says Farrow. http://broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=9263

Among those in the motion picture industry with a growing awareness of the significant market value that a theater-distributed rival to Disney’s cable-based “High School Musical” has to offer are Chris Meledandri; Joss Wedon; Ryan Kavanaugh of Gun Hill Road; Thomas Tull and Scott Mednick of Legendary Pictures; Stephen Quinn; Steve Bratspies; Roy Spence; Polly Cohen; Mark Gill; Jeff Robinov; Sasha Alpert; Bunim Murray; Oliver Obst; Melrose Investors; Bob Osher; Steve Bing; Jeff Skoll; Tom Jacobson; Nathan Lane; Marc Platt; Gus Gustawes; Kenny Miller; David Brookwell; Sean McNamara; MarVista; Matt Dearborn; Michael D. Jacobs; Fernando Szew; Paul Federbush; Andrea Arnold; Hal Lieberman; Ed Begley Jr.; Daniel Battsek; TalkStory Productions; Brookwell McNamara Entertainment; Ray Lawrence; Richard Kelly; Ben Silverman and Reveille Studios; USA Entertainment; Gayle Troberman and Rob Bennett at MSN; and Vanessa Taylor at Pretty Matches Productions, which is currently producing “The Washingtonienne,” a sit-com for HBO about a Senatorial intern who discusses product placement opportunities with a Washington Insider during her lunch break.

The $ 170 billion teen and tween entertainment market continues to be a major focus this spring for a number of content providers. For example, over the course of its twelve airings (January 20-April 21, 2006), Disney Channel’s break-into-song “High School Musical” reached 36.5 million unique total viewers (persons 2+), 20.1 million households, 10.3 million kids 6-11 and 11.1 million tweens 9-14. The premiere of “High School Musical” delivered the highest ever household ratings for Disney Channel original programming. Traffic to DisneyChannel.com surged with the premiere of “High School Musical.” Within a 24-hour period after its January 20 premiere, 1.2 million unique visitors logged on to DisneyChannel.com — the most ever for the site.

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Original Flash Animation and Film Studio VEESH.COM Goes Live

Montreal, QC (PRWEB) June 19, 2006

FOKaL Inc. has just released their brand new website VEESH.COM (http://www.veesh.com) after several years of work, tuning and development. The website features an impressive total of six completed flash films available for immediate viewing that span a variety of genres.

VEESH.COM is designed, owned and operated by life and business partners, Vish and Asia. They both have several years of experience in design, business, online marketing, arts and indy film production.

“Both my partner and I, have always had a huge interest in web and film so it only made sense to create a website that could serve as a creative outpost for our many ideas and artistic interests. This site is in many ways a life-long dream for me. It took some time to gather the right team and resources to make VEESH.COM happen.” says Vish. “We didn’t want to go live with one flash film that would essentially typecast the genre for VEESH.COM. We waited and struggled for a couple of years to produce our current catalog of six very distinguished and varied productions. We also have many more in the works at this very moment.”

Everything available on the website is produced and financed in-house by VEESH.COM. The company commissions and works closely with a group of seasoned artists, animators, writers and designers.

“We hope to re-coup costs and possibly make good with ad revenue, sale of collectibles from our signature online shop (http://www.cafepress.com/veesh), monetary contributions and possible future online syndication. I know many challenges lie ahead and we are confident that our experience, knowledge and tools will make VEESH.COM a success!” states VISH.

The website also offers newsletter subscribers pre-launch screenings of upcoming productions and free downloadable wallpapers in their grabs section.

“From the minute details incorporated into each frame, to the pixel perfection design of the website, VEESH.COM is an amazing dream come true,” said Asia.

VEESH.COM is a fresh Internet destination that is free to access and has something for everyone, including comics, animated cartoons, games and more. Enter the site and be transported to a unique world of digital entertainment. You can play an Interactive drinking game or appreciate a Film-Noir inspired drama titled “Russian Roulette.” You can laugh out loud at the slapstick antics of a Beaver named Bang or get hooked on a cute but scary web series of things that-go-bump-in-the-night titled “Whispers.”

For additional information, contact Vish or visit http://www.veesh.com.

About FOKaL Inc.:

FOKaL Inc. is an innovative new design studio that specializes in web development, film production and interior design. The company is owned and operated by husband-wife partners Vish P. and Asia K. Their entrepreneurial spirits, seasoned business experience and love for everything design fuels their goals to create, sustain and succeed.

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Vish

Co-Founder FOKaL Inc.

http://www.veesh.com

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