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Re: film noir - spillane - any favorites
by patRice 20 Dec '03

20 Dec '03

ericksna(a)umich.edu wrote: >Do we > have any fans following these areas? Personally >I can appreciate >Micky > Spillane for his contributions to the genre, but >have always felt In (German speaking) Europe, the Hammer TV series was shown, and many people have heard his name. But nobody seems to know who Spillane is. A few years back (before Amazon.com) I was so madly into all his books that I got friends from the US to send me all his Hammer / Tiger Mann, etc. stuff. BTW: an American friend once told me that Spillane has written some great books for kids. Is this true? > favorite), or even Jim Thompson as a writer. >Anyone have any >favorite film > noir or detective films/books? I recently >watched Alphaville and the As far as books are concerned, I did read some Japanese detective/crime stories. Since I'm heavily into tattooing, my favourite is definitely "The Tattoo Murder Case" by Akimitsu Takagi. His other works are okay, but don't come close to the former. Just checked my books database quickly, and also remember enjoying the following title: Seicho Matsu- moto "Inspector Imanishi Investigates". Almost forgot!: My favouritefavouritefavourite crime story is definitely Miyuki Miyabe's "All She Was Worth". I've bought copies of this book for many friends, and each one of them loved it. Check it out! (Reviews and plot can be found on Amazon.) patRice www.tattoo-source.com www.silverknuckle.com np: Earl Slick w/Robert Smith: Believe nr: Juxtapoz Magazine ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html

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RE: london stores?
by giuliana ferraris 20 Dec '03

20 Dec '03

Rough Trade in Neal's Yard, near Covent garden or there is another branch in Portobello road. _________________________________________________________________ Stay in touch with absent friends - get MSN Messenger http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger

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Speaking of Henry Cow
by Richard Gardner 20 Dec '03

20 Dec '03

> though within a few months he was transcribing Henry Cow charts for > class. I don't know if any of you would own up to watching the appalling soft core movie Emmanuelle. If you listen to the soundtrack you will find that large sections of the music are re-recorded musak versions of two Henry Cow tunes! I mentioned this to Chris Cutler a few years back but I think the ownership of the film is so complicated that it is too late for them to do anything about it. Any other surprise soundtrack appearances? Richard G

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film noir - spillane - any favorites
by Tosh 19 Dec '03

19 Dec '03

Hopefully not to ring my bell too loud, but Boris Vian's 'I Spit on Your Graves' I think is up there in noir literature. Also David Goodis and Cornell Woolrich are the two princes of darkness! -- Tosh Berman TamTam Books http://www.tamtambooks.com

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Re: film noir - spillane - any favorites
by nicola negri 19 Dec '03

19 Dec '03

>> - Kiss Me Deadly (1955) - Robert Aldrich >> (super-modern and stylistically gorgeous film) > >Can;t believe I forgot about this one. Most sadistic movie of the period. >Twisted as THE NAKED KISS. Brilliant -- if your idea >of brilliance is >some entertainment that makes you squirm and feel >dirty (and I personally likethat sometimes). > >sh yeah! you got it! that's exactly how i felt the first time i saw "Touch Of Evil".. by the way your mentioning "Naked Kiss" made me realize that in my list i forgot one of the greatest classic noirs, "Pickup On South Street" by Sam Fuller. how could it happen? mea culpa nic ______________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: 6MB di spazio gratuito, 30MB per i tuoi allegati, l'antivirus, il filtro Anti-spam http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.mail.yahoo.com/

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Re: west coast tpt
by David Slusser 19 Dec '03

19 Dec '03

>Skip h wrote (re: Chet Baker) > >The guy made too many albums entirely -- cash for drugs -- and probably >has as many titles in print as Sun Ra. There are about five really great >albums in there (the duet record with Paul Bley is shocking good), but >mostly it's a guy on heroin trying to get out of the studio early. > >BROKEN WING, if you can find it (it was on Inner City), is about my favorite >post Russ Freeman record of his. > >BTW -- when LET'S GET LOST was being filmed, Chet was in a room with jack >heldon for the first time in over two decades. He asked Frank Strazzeri >"What happened to Chetty's face?" > >"Those are laugh lines, Jack." > >"Shit -- nothing's THAT funny." > >And for West Coast trumpet -- or inprovising in general -- Jack is about as >great as it gets. > >skip h That last statement is a bit provocative, considering Don Cherry, and Texas transplant Bobby Bradford are LA contemporaries, but I gotta admit, despite his willingness to do showbiz schtick, Jack Sheldon has been the real deal on trumpet, going on 50 years. Personal fav: "Complete" from 'You Get More Bounce with Curtis Counce". As for Chet Baker, James Gavin has a recent book out that's pretty interesting, but after a while, just like Art Pepper, you stop feeling sorry for the guy. (Interesting that Pepper, though they made a record together, despised Baker for being a snitch, where Pepper held the con's code of silence.) Sheldon & Baker make a great contrast.

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noah howard
by Kurt Gottschalk 19 Dec '03

19 Dec '03

trudging through old digests. apologies if this has already been answered, but patterns shouldn't be too hard to find. eremite reissued it a few years back. _________________________________________________________________ Grab our best dial-up Internet access offer: 6 months @$9.95/month. http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup

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Re: film noir - spillane - any favorites
by Scott B. 19 Dec '03

19 Dec '03

what a great list, and i'm so glad somebody besides me loves Blast Of Silence. great time of the year to watch it as well, since the whole film takes place around Christmas time...not that it's all that uplifting or anything! it always makes me think of Samuel Fuller, since the unforgettable Ralphie was also in Shock Corridor. i always thought that Anthony Mann directed some of the best noirs, especially the ones with John Alton as his cinematographer...T-Men, Raw Deal, Border Incident, etc...great expressionistic photography and also extremely violent for the era. -scott >From: nicola negri <noizerve(a)yahoo.com> >To: zorn-list(a)mailman.xmission.com >Subject: Re: film noir - spillane - any favorites >Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 16:52:08 +0100 (CET) > >hello > >about the "hard-boiled" school of writers i admit that >i know only the classics, and my favourites are >Dashiell Hammett (a gifted writer and a great story >teller. i love all his books but "Red Harvest" is my >favourite one) and Raymond Chandler (especially >"Farewell, My Lovely " and "The Lady In The Lake"). >as i said my knowledge in this field is limited, it >seems to me that Skip Heller can tell us much more >about it, read his previous post on the subject, he >gave me precious indications on future readings.. > >about Mickey Spillane, well, i like reading his books, >i think he created a genre of his own, BUT most of the >time his misogynous and macho attitude is a little >annoying to me.. > > >talking about "film noir", well there are lots of >movies i love, but the best noir films ever for me >are: > >- The Maltese Falcon (1941) - John Huston (the film >traditionally regarded as the progenitor of noir >cinema) >- Detour (1945) - Edgar G. Ulmer (the film that took >fatalism, one of the defining aspects of film noir, at >its highest degree) >- Out of the Past (aka Build My Gallows High) (1947) - >Jacques Tourneur (for me this is THE classic film >noir, the cinematography is by the master of shadows, >Nicholas Musuraca) >- Gun Crazy (aka Deadly Is The Female) (1949) - Joseph >H. Lewis (ever heard the term "femme fatale"?) >- The Big Heat (1953) - Fritz Lang (incredibly modern >and harsh for its age; with one of Lee Marvin's first >appearances) >- Kiss Me Deadly (1955) - Robert Aldrich >(super-modern and stylistically gorgeous film) >- The Night of the Hunter (1955) - Charles Laughton (a >different pont of view on noir, a timeless >masterpiece) >- The Killing (1956)- Stanley Kubrick (Kubrick's >second (!) film; one of the best constructed movies of >all time) >- Touch Of Evil (1958) - Orson Welles (in my opinion >Welles's real masterpiece, simply astonishing) >- Blast Of Silence (1961) - Allen Baron (an unknown >masterpiece, a Dostoevskijan film noir) > >these are only (some of) my favourite ones, but many >others are great masterpieces and classic noirs. >i'm thinking about: The Big Sleep, In a Lonely Place, >Double Indemnity, The Stranger, Scarlet Street, Sunset >Boulevard, The Third Man, The Asphalt Jungle, The Lady >from Shanghai.. > > >an historical note for anyone interested: the term >"film noir" was first used in 1955 by Borde and >Chaumeton in their book "Panorama du Film Noir >Américain", the first critical essay on film noir and >the only one actually written during this genre's >golden age (traditionally 1941-1958). > > >hope this post will be of any interest to the list, >i'd like to see more on the subject. > >bye > >nic > > >______________________________________________________________________ >Yahoo! Mail: 6MB di spazio gratuito, 30MB per i tuoi allegati, l'antivirus, >il filtro Anti-spam >http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.mail.yahoo.com/ > >_______________________________________________ >zorn-list mailing list >zorn-list(a)mailman.xmission.com >To UNSUBSCRIBE or Change Your Subscription Options, go to the webpage below >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/zorn-list _________________________________________________________________ Working moms: Find helpful tips here on managing kids, home, work and yourself. http://special.msn.com/msnbc/workingmom.armx

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rebennink
by Kurt Gottschalk 19 Dec '03

19 Dec '03

>Thing is, though, once you've seen HB and his schtick >once, it's much preferable to listen to him on CD than >see him do the routine again live. > I beg to differ on this. --Mike Chamberlain i beg to agree. han has certain routines, as do most musicians, and the fact that his routines involve humor can make the predicatability seem cheaper. but he's a remarkable player. i don't see the fact that he enjoys what he does as a detriment. _________________________________________________________________ Worried about inbox overload? Get MSN Extra Storage now! http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es

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iso live
by Kurt Gottschalk 19 Dec '03

19 Dec '03

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