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The Lamps of Film Noir
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The Lamps of TAXI DRIVER (1976) 💡
Travis Bickle working on his forearm holster at a table under a yellow-shaded overhead lamp
December 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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The Lamps of BALL OF FIRE (d. Hawks, 1941) 💡
Gary cooper watching floor show at nightclub
November 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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The Lamps of THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS (1998) #NoirLamps 💡
Mira sorvino sitting on a bed near an oddly ornate bedside lamp “I want to know what the hell is going on”
November 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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The Lamps of SCARFACE (1932) 💡

#NoirLamps
Karloff on be near lamp Seven of them. Lined yp agalnst a wall. Mowed down Just like that.
November 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Love to teach the classics ❤️ 💥
‹ Michael Review 000 Michael Sharp PRO Kiss Me Deadly 1955 DEADLY Rewatched Nov 19, 2025 Taught this movie today and quickly realized that trying to explain its greatness makes you sound like an insane person. "Ok so the plot is convoluted beyond belief and the situations and characters are so preposterous that they border on camp at times and the Great Whatsit is an absolutely bonkers scifi McGuffin and the main character is a completely unlikable creep and sometimes there are shot decisions that only a demented person would make and the sound isn't even synced right in a couple places ... and yeah it's the greatest piece of filmed entertainment of the 1950s. Any questions?"
November 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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The Cats of KISS ME DEADLY (1955) 🐈

#NoirCats
Cat sits on pillow in Dr Soberin’s office
November 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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lol this guy.

(DOUBLE INDEMNITY, 1944)
There's a widespread feeling that just because a man has a large office - he must be an idiot.
November 17, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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The Perfect Louvered-Blind Shadows of DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) 💡
Phyllis, backed by light through louvered blinds, points gun at Walter (foreground, back to camera)
November 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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The Matching Lamps and Davenports of DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) 💡 #NoirLamps
Phyllis turning out lights, preparing for Walter’s arrival
November 17, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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The Lounge Car Lamps of DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) 💡 #NoirLamps 🚂
Walter on crutches headed to back of train
November 17, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Car 9 ❤️

(DOUBLE INDEMNITY, 1944)
Phyllis seeing Walter (disguised as her husband) onto the train
November 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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The Lamps of DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) 💡 #NoirLamps
Flanked by table lamps, Walter and Phyllis precoital embrace before dissolve to postcoital clothes straightening.
November 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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The Lamps of DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) 💡 #NoirLamps #Icon #WigPower
Phyllis on the sofa, fingering her drink, dreaming of murder
November 17, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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The Lamps of DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) 💡 #NoirLamps
Neff at his lamp-illuminated desk, lighting a cigarette while bleeding out
November 17, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Well What Do You Know, That Lamp Again 💡 #NoirLamps

(Musaraca really getting mileage out of that thing!) (DEADLINE AT DAWN, 1946)
Cabbie shines table lamp at strange lady who just came in The apartment DON'T MAKE A SOUND, MADAM.
November 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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That Same Lamp Again Later (DEADLINE AT DAWN, 1946) 💡 #NoirLamps
Susan Hayward stands before a tipped over lamp w sailor boy next to her
November 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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The Lamps of DEADLINE AT DAWN (1946) 💡 #NoirLamps
Lady in flouncy negligee pours whiskey near white table lamp while dapper gangster walks up
November 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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The Lamps (and Remarkable Statuary) of DR. JEKYLL AND SISTER HYDE (1971) 💡 #NoirLamps
Gray haired Man w/ brandy snifter near statue of naked women playing leap frog Statue of naked women playing leap frog
October 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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The Lamps of DR. JEKYLL AND SISTER HYDE (1971)
Victorian man at his desk near blue green glass desk lamp (how they got electric light in the 19c I have no idea )
October 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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This movie! 💥 ⁉️
Michael Sharp PRO THE AMERICAN SOLDIER The American Soldier 1970 ***½ Watched Oct 7, 2025 If you don't make out in tragic slow motion with your brother's corpse on the floor of a train station locker room while your mom watches are you even noir? Strictly for unrepentant postwar melancholics who drink their Ballantine's straight from the bottle. [sidenote: There is an uncanny moment in this movie where a maid sits on the edge of a bed and starts telling a story and about twenty seconds in I'm like "I know this story ... this ... this is the plot of ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL (a *later* Fassbinder film, what the actual fuck?)]
October 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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“Don’t mind me, just sucking down this scotch before I murder you…”

The Lamps of THE AMERICAN SOLDIER (d. Fassbinder, 1970) 💡
Man sits on couch drinking scotch straight from the bottle. Woman in extreme foreground
October 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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The Lamps of THE AMERICAN SOLDIER (d. Fassbinder, 1970) 💡
Man leans in bathroom doorway, perhaps contemplating bath. There’s a little table lamp behind him
October 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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The Lamps of THE AMERICAN SOLDIER (d. Fassbinder, 1970) 💡
Men playing cards with gaudy spherical lamp overhead
October 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Being a noir completist has its (sometimes considerable) downsides
Michael Sharp PRO CHINA MOON China Moon 1994 **; Watched Sep 29, 2025 Put every noir you've ever seen in a blender. Turn it on. Turn it off. Serve. CHINA MOON! The damn movie opens with: Rain-slicked streets at night Neon signs A motel Sex in a motel Saxy night jazz noir music Louvered blinds A P.l. taking photos through those blinds Just checking all the boxes on the Noir checklist, ripping off everything from DOUBLE INDEMNITY to THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE to BODY HEAT to PURPLE NOON/The Talented Mr. Ripley (book) along the way. I laugh-shout-watched this thing. Kind of a fun hour and a half if you watch it with the appropriate derision. Featuring an adorable and very young Benicio Del Toro (I watched this 'cause it's noir, I hadn't seen it, and it's leaving Criterion Oct 1)
September 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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🦅 🐦‍⬛ 🦢

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Michael Sharp PRO BREWSTER MCCLOUD Brewster McCloud 1970 ** *½ Watched Sep 11, 2025 Sally Kellerman in a red Gremlin fucking with the cops. Sally Kellerman naked with little designs on her back where wings should be. Sally Kellerman marching dramatically out of the Astrodome with a raven on her arm, going back to whatever avian kingdom they came from. And every violent abusive asshole in Houston gets killed by literal bird shit. If ever a movie had Everything, it's this movie.
September 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM