‘The Long Goodbye’ – Robert Altman takes on Raymond Chandler on Prime Video and Paramount+ !Featured, Amazon Prime Video, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Cult Movies, DVD, Free, Hoopla, Mystery, National Film Registry, Paramount+, SVOD 04/03/202304/03/2023 Sean Axmaker Elliot Gould is Philip Marlowe in this revisionist seventies take on the classic forties film noir private eye movie.
Last chance: Bogie and Bacall in ‘The Big Sleep’ on HBO Max !Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, Essential Viewing, film noir, Hollywood Classic, literary adaptation, Mystery, National Film Registry, SVOD 08/01/202209/01/2022 Sean Axmaker Howard Hawks directs the great 1946 adaptation of the Raymond Chandler classic, stirring up the romantic heat in the hardboiled mystery set in the corruption of the Los Angeles underworld.
Last chance: ‘Double Indemnity’ – Barbara Stanwyck, femme fatale on Criterion Channel !Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Crime, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, National Film Registry, suspense, SVOD 08/01/202209/01/2022 Sean Axmaker Billy Wilder’s 1944 film of James M. Cain’s pulp crime thriller is a masterpiece of film noir double dealing.