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Noah Isenberg
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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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Noah Isenberg @noahisenberg.bsky.social · Nov 19
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#filmnoir #Noirvember #moviesky #filmsky

Happy Weekend
from Santa Monica Beach with Ava Gardner and Burt Lancaster
Santa Monica Beach — Ava Gardner and Burt Lancaster’s post filming (The Killers) photo shoot, 1946
November 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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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...
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November 15, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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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
November 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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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
November 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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#NoirvemberChallenge
#FilmNoir character you'd trust the least with your secrets.
November 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Good time talking #CabinetOfDrCaligari with Jerry Carlson of @cuny.edu City Cinematheque.

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THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI - City Cinematheque
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November 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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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
November 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Louise Brooks in "Prix de beaute" - BOTD
November 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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BTD - Louise Brooks - Pandora's Box - 1929 - French release poster - art by René Péron
Louise Brooks despairs in a smoky den surrounded by reprobates
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Mary Astor as Pat in #FilmNoir Act of Violence (1948)...
November 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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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
November 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Friday 🖤🎬
#Noirvember #FilmNoir #filmsky #moviesky
Ingrid Bergman in the movie Notorious (1946) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
November 14, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Nov. 14, 1925: The Vassar College junior class’ Velvet Coat Chorus gives a performance on the New York campus.
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Happy birthday, dear #VeronicaLake

#FilmSky #MovieSky #ClassicHollywood
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November 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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#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).
Ida Lupino, Edmond O’Brien, and Frank Lovejoy while filming, The Hitch-Hiker, in the Eastern Sierra of California
November 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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#comedysky #moviesky #filmnoir
#SomeLikeItHot

Happy Friday
Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe
November 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Good morning.

#BOTD #filmsky #moviesky
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
November 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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That #FridayFeeling

#LadyFromShanghai #Noirvember #FilmNoir #FilmSky #MovieSky
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November 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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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
November 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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#NoirvemberChallenge
Favorite low-budget 🅱️ #FilmNoir
November 13, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Good morning.

#BOTD #Filmsky #Moviesky
A black and white image of a young woman with very short blond hair. She is wearing a short-sleeve dress with dark and white horizontal stripes and stylish dark sunglasses. She is holding a pen to her lips as she looks at someone very coyly. Jean Seberg, born on this day in 1938 (d. 1979) as Patricia Franchini in a scene from the film BREATHLESS (1960) (À bout de souffle) Tags films movies cinema French New Wave Godard sexy actress icon model
November 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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#filmnoir #moviesky #filmsky

Day 13: Favorite Low-Budget B Film Noir
#NoirvemberChallenge

If B stands for bizarre, then it’s the low-budget, 75-minute bizarre noir filmed in Utah with a number of rising stars.
(cocktail required)

Marie Windsor & Anne Bancroft
The Girl in Black Stockings, 1957
November 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Day 13 #Noirvember

#InALonelyPlace #HumphreyBogart #FrankLovejoy #NicholasRay #FilmSky #MovieSky #FilmNoir
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November 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM