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Color newspaper portrait of Ida Lupino, 1949

Ida Lupino directing two women on the set of “The Hitch-Hiker” (1953)

Ida Lupino sitting at a piano with young daughter Bridget and a kitten, ca. 1957

It’s Ida Lupino Day! #BOTD February 4, 1918

Johnny Cash and Ida Lupino in Columbo episode Swan Song (1974)

Tonight on Noir Alley on TCM #NoirAlley #TCM
SHIELD FOR MURDER (1954)
A surprisingly hard-hitting noir for its time, about a malevolent and murderous cop. From a novel by William P. McGivern (THE BIG HEAT; ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW). Directed and starring Edmund O'Brien. Recommended. 🎥

“NOTORIOUS” (1946) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Leopoldine Konstantin

🎬 RKO Radio Pictures
🎞 #FilmNoir

YouTube video by All the Film Things Episode 53: Double Indemnity with Anne Hockens

Now on YouTube, my deep dive into DOUBLE INDEMNITY with All The Film Things host Elizabeth Wildes.
youtu.be/Q6sliGIw47A?...

YouTube video by All the Film Things Episode 53: Double Indemnity with Anne Hockens

Now on YouTube, FNF Director of Communications Anne Hockens' deep dive into DOUBLE INDEMNITY with All The Film Things host Elizabeth Wildes.
youtu.be/Q6sliGIw47A?...
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John Cassavetes guest stars as a ruthless music orchestra conductor who murders a gifted pianist with whom he is having an affair. Lt. Columbo is on the case in the episode “ÉTUDE IN BLACK” (1972) dir. Nicholas Colasanto with co-stars Peter Falk, Bythe Danner and Myrna Loy

📺 Universal Television

Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands “A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE” (1974) dir. John Cassavetes

On the left, a narrow, glass-fronted display case with a mix of letterpress, hand-bound, antiquarian, and collectors' books; stretching off to the right, 8-foot bookcases laden with literary and contemporary commercial fiction, about one thousand books out of the 6-7 thousand in that section. LED lighting and light-colored wood cases and flooring keep the room feeling relatively spacious despite the sheer quantity of books.

Communities need used-book shops.

As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...

We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.

"We have a need for an enlightened, watchful articulate opposition. We have no need for semi-secret societies who are absolutist, dictatorial and would substitute for a rule of law and reason an indiscriminate assault on the institutions that must be held sacrosanct."
~Rod Serling

True horror.

'I'm Not In Love feat. Brandon Flowers', sung by 10cc in 1977.

"Great song. Brandon was the perfect fit with his beautiful voice." Chrissie

-CHHQ

Original artwork for Universal Monsters Aladdin Industries thermos (Universal Studios, 1979)

#UniversalMonsters
#AladdinIndustries
#Thermos

Noir City: 'Where winsome women turn wicked!' - Chicago Reader Noir City: Chicago is back at the Music Box Theatre, celebrating determined and duplicitous dames on the big screen.

A feast for Chicago #filmnoir fans starting this weekend playing @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social as the ladies shine in dark movies #NoirCityChicago chicagoreader.com/film-tv/movi...

If we still had a functioning government I would demand congressional hearings on this. I want people in handcuffs. I want someone’s head on a stick.

Today in 1961 — TWA became the first airline to screen movies.

Customized 16mm projectors + reels (mounted horizontally) played a whole film without a changeover.

The first in-flight movie? BY LOVE POSSESSED (1961) w/ Lana Turner — but only in first class. #FilmSky

1939 Movies

Widely regarded by Critics as one of the greatest ever years in Cinema

#FilmSky #Movies #Cinema

Three uncompromising noirs today on @TCM including Journey into Fear, Detour, and Armored Car Robbery. It has cop Charles McGraw looking for the criminals. William Talman is the ruthless brains behind the heist. Adele Jergens is involved. Directed by Richard Fleischer. From RKO. #FilmNoir #TCMParty

TOON TUESDAY
#ToonTuesday

Which Bogey are you today? 🎬

Private eye Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) rages through "Kiss Me Deadly" (1955), a Cold War caper ripped from the pages of pulp novel scribbler Mickey Spillane. A lady running for her life leads Hammer to a secret government experiment and a mystery box full of hellfire. #filmnoir

The Twilight Zone (5561)