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#29: Noirvember


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Listen up you crumbs and broads and don't get sore - the fellas are back with a hardboiled, shadow-filled, paranoid noir double feature to celebrate Noirvember 2023. The two films are Robert Aldrich's classic Kiss Me Deadly (1955) and Jacques Tourneur's lesser known, terrifyingly prescient The Fearmakers (1958). Gerry and Sammy discuss the ways in which noirs act as time capsules for a society's anxieties and fears, as well as how these two films in particular convey these fears with quite unique formal approaches. Contains spoilers for both films.

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It's On The ListBy Gerry Hartman and Sammy Ray