Tipping My Fedora

Today we explore the late William Friedkin's 1985 dark and dazzling neo-noir, To Live and Die in LA, which stars William L. Peterson, Willem Dafoe and John Pankow, features stunning cinematography by Robby Müller and a killer soundtrack by British new wave band, Wang Chung. My special guest is writer and filmmaker Liam Dunn, who is also co-host of Sci-Frights, the film discussion podcast from the interzone where horror meets sci-fi. https://rss.com/podcasts/scifrights/ He is currently the co-programmer of the community cinema project the Distorted Frame Film Club in London, which conducts regular screenings of films which celebrate the unique qualities, flaws and possibilities of the digital camera. Their next event will be a screening of the 2007 film [REC] on Tuesday 29 October at The Castle Cinema, Clapton / @thecastlecinema Distorted Frama Film Club [email protected] For more information about Gerald Petievich, ex US Secret Service agent, co-screenwriter and author of the original novel on which the film is based, visit his homepage at: https://petievich.com/ In the UK the films is available on Blu-ray from Arrow Video: https://www.arrowfilms.com/

Sergio chats to James Harrison, co-founder of Film Noir UK and director of its first festival, Film Noir Fest 2024. The event will take place in Weston-Super-Mare from 1 to 3 November and this year's theme is Dangerous Divas. We preview some of the main screenings, which include: Lee Marvin Centenary The Big Heat (Fritz Lang, 1953) Point Blank (John Boorman, 1967) Lauren Bacall Centenary To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks, 1944) The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946) Dark Passage (Delmer Daves, 1947) Key Largo (John Huston, 1948)​ 1950s Mexican Noir Aventurera (Adventuress) (1950) starring Ninón Sevilla Víctimas del Pecado (Victims of Sin) (Emilio Fernández, 1951) starring Ninón Sevilla El Bruto (The Brute) (Luis Buñuel, 1953)​ starring Katy Jurado Llévame en tus Brazos (Take Me in Your Arms) (1954) starring Ninón Sevilla Dangerous Divas Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944) starring Barbara Stanwyck Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang, 1945) starring Joan Bennett ​Gilda (Charles Vidor, 1946) starring Rita Hayworth ​Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947) starring Jane Greer ​Don't Bother to Knock (Roy Baker, 1952) starring Marilyn Monroe Human Desire (Fritz Lang, 1954) starring Gloria Grahame ​Body Heat (1981) starring Kathleen Turner The Last Seduction (John Dahl, 1994) starring Linda Fiorentino We also touch on the new animated series, Batman: Caped Crusader, Robert Zemeckis' Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and Sergio reminisces about the LaserDisc format. For full details about the festival and tickets, visit the homepage of Film Noir UK.

For the first episode of Tipping My Fedora (TMF), Sergio is joined by crime fiction critic and historian, Barry Forshaw (www.barryforshaw.co.uk). They look at a selection of some of the home video releases on which Barry has worked, spanning 25 years of Film Noir. Titles discussed, include: This Gun for Hire (Frank Tuttle, 1942) starring Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd. Available on Blu-ray from Eureka Criss Cross (Robert Siodmak, 1949) featuring Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo and Dan Duryea. Available on Blu-ray from Eureka Private Hell 36 (Don Siegel, 1954) starring Ida Lupino (who also produced), Howard Duff and Steve Cochrane. Available on Blu-ray from Imprint The Scarface Mob (Phil Karlson, 1959/62) - the film that launched The Untouchables with Robert Stack. Available on Blu-ray from Arrow (US) Lady in a Cage (Walter Grauman, 1964) - a shocker in which rich invalid Olivia de Havilland gets stuck in an elevator and James Caan torments her. Available on Blu-ray from Imprint Madigan (Don Siegel, 1968) in which Richard Widmark's eponymous cop gets unglued when he meets his big boss, Henry Fonda. Available on Blu-ray from Indicator We also discuss the politically incorrect 'Parker' novels by Richard Stark (aka Donald Westlake), the fascism of Dirty Harry and Coppola's Godfather trilogy and the charges of "nepo baby" casting that affected the final instalment. Barry is the editor of the Crime Time online journal and his books include: Crime Fiction: A Reader's Guide, Simenon: The Man, The Books, The Films, and his series on Noir, including: Brit Noir, American Noir, Euro Noir, Nordic Noir and Historical Noir (click here for further details). ** Listen out for an easter egg in which we refer in passing to a film that we will be discussing in the podcast dropping on 18 November.

What is this thing called Film Noir? It's time to buckle up your trenchcoat and don your fedora. Join host Sergio Angelini and his guests every 10 days as they uncover the secrets behind 100 years of crime movies, radio dramas, hardboiled fiction and thousands of television episodes. Launching on 4 October 2024 ...