THIS WEEK: Your host, Audy is back with a brand new retro podcast where he focuses on two of the best films that represent early film noir and late film noir with The Maltese Falcon and Touch of Evil. Audy brings back his friend, and film noir aficionado, Andy Wolverton, to break down both films and celebrate their merits. First, the fellas start off with the 1940 film noir classic The Maltese Falcon. Audy fell in love with the film and claimed that John Huston's film is quintessential film noir at its best with Humphrey Bogart leading the way. Andy was impressed with the film especially since this was John Huston's first and how effortlessly he was able to capture that film noir spirit. Second is the 1958 film noir bravura, Touch of Evil, directed by and starring the incomparable Orson Welles. It was Audy's first time watching the film and like Welles' other films, Audy immediately fell in love with the film's direction, themes and seamless tonal shifts. Andy enjoyed the film and felt it represented film noir in the truest sense with its gritty, hardscrabble depiction of good vs. evil. After that, both guys discuss film noir's evolution and style differences, similarities of both films and how each, in the span of 20 years, still compliment each other, without really even trying. 

 

This week's guest: Andy Wolverton Andy Wolverton is a librarian at the Severna Park Community Library in Severna Park, Maryland (part of the Anne Arundel County Public Library system), where he co-hosts The Great Movies series the first Thursday of each month. Andy also writes for The Dark Pages: The Newsletter for Film Noir Lovers as well as his blog, Journeys in Darkness and Light. You can follow him on Twitter @awolverton77and on Letterboxd as awolverton.

 

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