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Impressive! That looks very good for the core..

That concludes my part of the pre-show, and as a bit of a palate cleanser before CT takes over, here’s Philip riding a unicycle.

Over to you, CT. 😊
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(12/12) To scholars like Foster Hirsch, Eddie Muller and Tony D’Ambra, not every crime film is a noir, and not *only* crime films are noirs. As key films like ‘Fourteen Hours’ and ‘Clash by Night’ have been returned to the fold, so too is #TheLostWeekend no longer “the lost noir.” #TheNoirCollective

(11/12) Noir scholars have begun to expand the definition beyond “crime films,” to once again embrace works that are clear continuations of the French style: psychological dramas about isolation, alienation, fatalism, obsession, disillusion, entrapment and despair. #TheNoirCollective #TheLostWeekend

I'll have a Ginger Ale with a twist of lemon for poor Mildred Atkinson.
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(10/12) By 1979, when ‘Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference’ was published, #TheLostWeekend – one of the first American film noirs – didn’t even rate a mention.

Happily, film historians – aware that the definition was botched from the get-go – have worked to set things right. #TheNoirCollective

AGAIN!!! This is blowing my brain!!! 👏
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WOW He even mentioned #TheLostWeekend in his 4 examples!!! This is shockingly awesome!!! #TheNoirCollective

(7/12) Of #TheLostWeekend, Chartier hailed “the impressions of a senseless void left by a man in the grip of singular addiction.” The “sense of extreme despair” – which he likened approvingly to Carné’s ‘Port of Shadows’ – linked it irrevocably to “the French school of film noir.” #TheNoirCollective

(6/12) So far from Frank coining the phrase “film noir,” he and his colleagues were in fact referencing a term that had been around for nearly a decade. And of the films they reviewed, which was the only one that all three agreed was a bonafide “film noir”?

Yup: #TheLostWeekend.

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(5/12) Most crucially, in Nov of 1946, French critic Jean-Pierre Chartier wrote “Americans Also Make Noir Films” for La Révue du Cinéma, examining three Hollywood films that were clearly tied to the French film noir tradition: Murder My Sweet, Double Indemnity and #TheLostWeekend. #TheNoirCollective

(4/12) That same month, German cultural critic Siegfried Kracauer argued in ‘Commentary’ magazine that three recent American films (Shadow of a Doubt, #TheLostWeekend and The Stranger) displayed a moral decay and dark depravity reminiscent of – you got it – French film noir. #TheNoirCollective

You and me both. I'm imbibing a delicious water that I may or may not spice up with a twist of lime. Depends on whether I feel like I can take the heat.

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(3/12) In August 1946, film critic Nino Frank, in L’Écran Français, likened four recent Hollywood films – The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, Murder My Sweet and #TheLostWeekend – to French noir. He was impressed that “even the crime films” were laced with “psychological plots.” #TheNoirCollective