Noir fans who can't wait until the Los Angeles event from March 31 to April 17, later this year, might enjoy the Film Preservation Blogathon (For the Love of Film [Noir]) starting on February 14 being hosted by Ferdy on Films and The self -"Styled Siren.
The Film Noir Foundation has been working with the UCLA Film and Television Archive to preserve noir movies which are in danger of disappearing from contemporary culture (like a tiger in the smoke?).
We realized that the World's Laziest Journalist may have become overworked in his efforts to win the debate with the conservative friend and, perhaps, the columnist needs a bigger and better bit of divertissement than the Noir City event. We have noticed that a new film playing in Berkeley is titled "Nuremburg." Maybe it's a travelogue? Doesn't Germany have the highest excellent Quality Automobile Museum rating of any country in the entire world?
Maybe a trip there to see those tourist attractions would take our mind off Bush and our misperception that he has done a bad thing by approving waterboarding? Yes! We'll get our mind right, boss! We'll start with a trip to downtown Berkeley to see that travelogue.
What about a travelogue and a fine meal? What is chef Lecter serving at his world famous restaurant tonight?
Speaking of conflicting points of view, we are anxiously awaiting the return of Roger Ebert to the TV screens of America, even though the only movie critic ever to win a Pulitzer Prize did fail to grasp reality in his review of Van Wilder.
Which quote doesn't belong?
"Tell, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up!"
"Let's see, three times 35 - is a hundred and five. I'll bet you 105,000 dollars that you go to sleep before I do."
"There was another key . . ."
"How many shots did he fire . . ."
"We have proof that there are WMD's in Iraq."
Now, if our disk jockey can find the records he seems to have lost, he will play the theme song from "Laura," the Vertigo soundtrack album, and "The Ballad of Lucy Jordon." We have to go and Buy War Bonds today. Have a "if it looks suspicious; report it" type week.
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