I love watching, reading about, and writing about film noir. But I confess the weekly live tweet is getting a bit dull for me. After watching Robson/Lewton’s The Seventh Victim as a late-night feature with a bunch of the riffing crowd, I realized I knew how to spice up the coming months, and thus was born my dark brainchild SINISTER SUMMER!
Starting Sunday, June 5, #BNoirDetour weekly live tweets will explore the pleasures of noir-horror. Throughout June and July, we will watch a 1940s film that features noir elements blended with suspense, the supernatural, monsters, and mayhem. From classics and cult favorites to little known treasures and even dreck seen last on MST3K, it’ll be a fabulous offering for riffing the evening away. And we will end the event with 1955’s incomparable Dementia.
Here’s a little overview/welcome video I made to tempt everyone:
Tentative Schedule (pending availability on youtube, archive.org, veoh, vimeo, and/or dailymotion):
- June 5: The Spiral Staircase (Siodmak, 1945)
- June 12: The Undying Monster (Brahms, 1942)
- June 19: Black Friday (Lubin, 1940) – with Lugosi and Karloff
- June 26: Night Has a Thousand Eyes (Farrow, 1948) – starring Edward G. Robinson
- July 3: The Brute Man (Yarbrough, 1946) – with Tom Neal (Detour) & as seen on MST3K
- July 10: The Amazing Dr. X (Vorhaus, 1948)
- July 17: The Ghost Ship (Lewton/Robson, 1943)
- July 24: She-wolf of London (Yarbrough, 1946)
- July 31: Dementia (1955)
Links for each will be posted via @BNoirDetour. Hope lots of live tweeting and noir pals old and new will join in the fun each Sunday at 9pm ET.
May 31, 2016 at 12:06 AM
Sounds like a spiffy lineup, S!
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May 31, 2016 at 1:23 AM
Love this idea!!
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May 31, 2016 at 2:23 AM
Thanks!
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May 31, 2016 at 1:52 AM
Great and inventive idea.
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May 31, 2016 at 2:22 AM
Thanks! I need something fun to avoid stagnation.
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May 31, 2016 at 10:12 AM
Never don’t be too hard on yourself. I agree it is always good to vary the approach sometimes though.
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May 31, 2016 at 3:39 PM
LOL – “Never don’t”? Does that double negative mean I should be hard on myself?
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May 31, 2016 at 4:00 PM
Dear oh dear and there is me giving out about the level of grammar on blogs. This is disgraceful and I have told myself off. I do apologise. No, you shouldn’t be hard on yourself, leave that to other people, they are always quick to find fault. What annoys me about myself is when I do exactly the things that I am so critical of in others. Hopefully my grammar is better in this comment otherwise I am going to have to beat myself up.
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May 31, 2016 at 4:23 PM
Haha! If you do decide to beat yourself up, change people to watch so you can at least reap a profit. 😘
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May 31, 2016 at 4:35 PM
I tend to be very self critical I do it all the time
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May 31, 2016 at 4:36 PM
We all do. We just think other people don’t.
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May 31, 2016 at 2:12 AM
Great!
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May 31, 2016 at 2:22 AM
Thanks! Hope you can join us for the live tweet fun.
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