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film scholar @ UT-Austin & exec director UTNY + UTLA | author, We’ll Always Have ‘Casablanca’ (W.W. Norton), ed., Billy Wilder on Assignment (Princeton) | bylines: The Nation, NYT, New Republic, NYR Daily, et al. | views = mine www.noahisenberg.com

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Using a vid or GIF, describe your mood today 🖤

15.11.2025 23:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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☕️Good morning.

I hope everyone has a great weekend.

*The Coffee Cup, Los Angeles, California (year unknown.)

15.11.2025 15:23 — 👍 85    🔁 17    💬 3    📌 2
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No, this is not the gift shop that sells tchotchkes and kitschy memorabilia at Hotel Grand America in Salt Lake City. It's the freaking West Wing!

15.11.2025 22:53 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Review: Enjoy the sharp twists in the techno-thumping, Cannes-winning road thriller 'Sirāt' The pleasures and agonies of Oliver Laxe’s spellbinding Cannes winner 'Sirāt' kick off at a sandy Moroccan rave where a dad and his son search for a lost girl.

The second time I saw the road thriller “Sirāt,” I couldn’t wait to hear the audience moan.

www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

12.11.2025 23:39 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
I love movies. All I need is movies.
I don't need anything else or anyone else.
aubrey plaza being interviewed

I love movies. All I need is movies. I don't need anything else or anyone else. aubrey plaza being interviewed

me, completely unprompted

10.11.2025 18:53 — 👍 190    🔁 32    💬 3    📌 2
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ANYWAY

24.10.2025 14:50 — 👍 328    🔁 69    💬 9    📌 1
Santa Monica Beach — Ava Gardner and Burt Lancaster’s post filming (The Killers) photo shoot, 1946

Santa Monica Beach — Ava Gardner and Burt Lancaster’s post filming (The Killers) photo shoot, 1946

#filmnoir #Noirvember #moviesky #filmsky

Happy Weekend
from Santa Monica Beach with Ava Gardner and Burt Lancaster

15.11.2025 12:20 — 👍 77    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks for the shout-out! Much obliged.

15.11.2025 13:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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11/14/45: Edgar G Ulmer's Detour
#noirvember
Nifty BFI book via @noahisenberg.bsky.social: www.bloomsbury.com/us/detour-97...
More:
Ebert: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/grea...
@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/goings-on-ab...
@nschager.bsky.social: www.slantmagazine.com/film/b-noir/

15.11.2025 01:06 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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“One writes out of one thing only—one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art."
—Baldwin

10.11.2025 20:42 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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New work!

Released today from the BFI and @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social - here are my covers for the BFI Film Classics on REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, written by Glyn Davis and THE BEFORE TRILOGY, written by Lucas Hildebrand.

This was an absolute dream job!

#books #illustration #bookcover

13.11.2025 20:14 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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#NoirvemberChallenge
#FilmNoir character you'd trust the least with your secrets.

14.11.2025 22:49 — 👍 87    🔁 9    💬 5    📌 2
THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI - City Cinematheque
YouTube video by CUNY TV THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI - City Cinematheque

Good time talking #CabinetOfDrCaligari with Jerry Carlson of @cuny.edu City Cinematheque.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDBA...

14.11.2025 21:34 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Edward Dmytryk's 🇺🇲 American film noir "MURDER, MY SWEET" (1944), starring Dick Powell with Claire Trevor and Anne Shirley, was the first film to feature the private detective character Philip Marlowe

🎬 RKO Radio Pictures
🎞 #Noirvember

14.11.2025 17:37 — 👍 315    🔁 40    💬 12    📌 1
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Louise Brooks in "Prix de beaute" - BOTD

14.11.2025 19:05 — 👍 34    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1
Louise Brooks despairs in a smoky den surrounded by reprobates

Louise Brooks despairs in a smoky den surrounded by reprobates

BTD - Louise Brooks - Pandora's Box - 1929 - French release poster - art by René Péron

14.11.2025 16:06 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Mary Astor as Pat in #FilmNoir Act of Violence (1948)...

13.11.2025 18:03 — 👍 114    🔁 14    💬 4    📌 0
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“What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed?”

— Hannah Arendt

14.11.2025 15:22 — 👍 272    🔁 96    💬 17    📌 13
Ingrid Bergman in the movie Notorious (1946) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Ingrid Bergman in the movie Notorious (1946) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Friday 🖤🎬
#Noirvember #FilmNoir #filmsky #moviesky

14.11.2025 10:29 — 👍 58    🔁 21    💬 1    📌 0

Or it will be Vanessa Friedman on the fashion sensibility and wardrobe choices of the unhoused.

14.11.2025 15:13 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Nov. 14, 1925: The Vassar College junior class’ Velvet Coat Chorus gives a performance on the New York campus.

14.11.2025 15:08 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Veronica Lake GIF ALT: Veronica Lake GIF

Happy birthday, dear #VeronicaLake

#FilmSky #MovieSky #ClassicHollywood

14.11.2025 15:00 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Ida Lupino, Edmond O’Brien, and Frank Lovejoy while filming, The Hitch-Hiker, in the Eastern Sierra of California

Ida Lupino, Edmond O’Brien, and Frank Lovejoy while filming, The Hitch-Hiker, in the Eastern Sierra of California

#filmnoir #Noirvember #moviesky #filmsky

Day 14: Who’s on the Film Noir Mount Rushmore
#NoirvemberChallenge

• Billy Wilder
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Fritz Lang
• Robert Siodmak
… AND Ida Lupino for breaking harsh barriers to become the first female to direct a film noir (The Hitch-Hiker, 1953).

14.11.2025 12:04 — 👍 47    🔁 14    💬 4    📌 0
Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe

Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe

#comedysky #moviesky #filmnoir
#SomeLikeItHot

Happy Friday

14.11.2025 12:08 — 👍 42    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0
A black and white image of a woman with flowing blond hair, wearing a dress with a plunging neckline.
She's glancing at someone with a very sultry expression.
Veronica Lake, born on this day in 1922 (d. 1973) as Sally Vaughn in a scene from the film I WANTED WINGS (1941)

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A black and white image of a woman with flowing blond hair, wearing a dress with a plunging neckline. She's glancing at someone with a very sultry expression. Veronica Lake, born on this day in 1922 (d. 1973) as Sally Vaughn in a scene from the film I WANTED WINGS (1941) Tags Filmsky moviesky MOVIES films botd happy birthday Hollywood legends sexy actor actress sex symbol pinup girl

Good morning.

#BOTD #filmsky #moviesky

14.11.2025 12:24 — 👍 42    🔁 8    💬 3    📌 0
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That #FridayFeeling

#LadyFromShanghai #Noirvember #FilmNoir #FilmSky #MovieSky

14.11.2025 13:08 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

Directed by #RobertAldrich
Starring #RalphMeeker #AlbertDekker #PaulStewart #JuanoHernandez

Cinematography by #ErnestLaszlo
Music by #FrankDeVol

#KissMeDeadly #1950s #FilmNoir #mystery #classichollywood #classicfilm #Noirvember

14.11.2025 13:01 — 👍 38    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0
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#NoirvemberChallenge
Favorite low-budget 🅱️ #FilmNoir

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