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Oct 28, 2026
Eve PlumbGUEST
It's in a house on the Upper East Side.
Eve PlumbGUEST
And I had made this series of paintings from the film noir series called Anxiety.
Eve PlumbGUEST
Yeah.
Eve PlumbGUEST
And it was film noir images of like, like hands and then the hand reaching for a phone and like, you know, anxious.
Eve PlumbGUEST
Yeah.
Bruce GotliebHOST
It was apropos for the time anyway, right? Yeah, that was the idea, yeah.
Harry BaileyHOST
But of the remaining seven, we've actually only covered one more of these films.
Harry BaileyHOST
So that eliminates so many massive films, Noir.
Harry BaileyHOST
But we've only covered one more of the remaining seven.
Harry BaileyHOST
So maybe try to think about films, Noir, that we haven't covered.
Shane MulvaneyHOST
Some people think it's not, obviously, I want to say Sunset Boulevard.
Harry BaileyHOST
It's number two, yeah.
Harry BaileyHOST
Maybe a few ideas for next month on the podcast, although we haven't announced what next month's lyric is, so who knows what we'll be covering next month.
Harry BaileyHOST
We'll announce that next Sunday, of course.
Tristan EttlemanHOST
Welcome to the five best films of every year ever, where experts and enthusiasts share their picks.
Tristan EttlemanHOST
I'm your host, Tristan Edelman, and on this episode I talk with James Harrison, BBC Archives researcher and co-director of Southwest Silence and Film Noir UK.
Tristan EttlemanHOST
James' selections mostly demonstrate refinement of the American narrative mode, but in addition to a famed French pick, his ultimate subject certainly connects to his role in highlighting images and audio from British history.
Tristan EttlemanHOST
I know you do kind of a lot of stuff, I feel like, when I look into your work.
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James HarrisonGUEST
We should be doing more than this.
James HarrisonGUEST
So we started up Southwest Science and we thought, right, we'll start putting like...
James HarrisonGUEST
Hamlet with Aston Nielsen in and a whole load of other stuff which just people would never see and it just went from there it snowballed and then a couple of years ago I then launched a co-company called Film Noir UK and how the elements of silent film continued into Film Noir but also then takes us into a totally different area later on so that's put it in a nutshell it's a in so many ways but that's where silent film comes from and that's where my passion is and I've been very lucky I mean I'm very humbled that you invited me on this because nearly everyone else I was looking at I've been listening to your podcast for quite some time and I'm rather humbled because you know you've got the likes of Neil Brand and Bryony and Celine and Stephen Massa, Matt Page, Ian Christie.
James HarrisonGUEST
And these are all friends of mine.
Mali DaviesHOST
exactly expression a lot of
Mark FearnleyGUEST
my a lot of my interest in my photography my black and white photography stems from okay so like yeah like let's say film noir, and German expressionism, like 1920s, 1940s photography, where you've got the man with the shawby hat, the cape, and then you've got him walking on the cobbled streets of London, and there's a bit of steam, and the highlights are blown, which... which then around the person makes the silhouette stand out against the background because it's blown highlights behind him.
Mark FearnleyGUEST
And you've got this lone figure walking through this blown highlight of light with a silhouette.
Mark FearnleyGUEST
It has loads of mood and atmosphere and stuff like that.
Mark FearnleyGUEST
And, you know, I've had people say to me, mark you've done everything wrong there on that on that shot you've blown your highlights and well i wanted to isolate the person in the light and by that i like to blow my highlights so that you've got the silhouette coming through the light with a bit of smoke and steam i love all that you know
Mali DaviesHOST
yeah so
Mark FearnleyGUEST
i love film noir
Mali DaviesHOST
yeah yeah well if you've seen the series ripley
Greg CromieHOST
This was from last week.
Greg CromieHOST
Sorry, this was from Julie Power's Film Noir workshop.
Greg CromieHOST
And the model, the wonderful Nicholas, shot with a Sony a7 IV and a Sony 70-200 2.8.
Greg CromieHOST
Processed on his phone.
Greg CromieHOST
Some are from the BFOP weekend.
Greg CromieHOST
That same, yeah, I did that just to mess with you.
Greg CromieHOST
That same film noir workshop.
Greg CromieHOST
Which one do you want to do
Nathaniel RichGUEST
Yeah, he's one of my favorites.
Nathaniel RichGUEST
Yeah, I mean, I came, I should say, I mean, I came out of essentially film noir.
Nathaniel RichGUEST
I mean, the first, I wrote a little book when I was shortly out of college.
Nathaniel RichGUEST
It's not even listed on my, you know, on my book jackets anymore, but it was It's called San Francisco Noir, and it's a little kind of eccentric guidebook of about film noir in San Francisco told through places that appeared in those films.
Nathaniel RichGUEST
But they're not they're typically not like tourist sites.
Nathaniel RichGUEST
It's like an abandoned lot, you know, in the Tenderloin or like.
JohnHOST
It's a little better than that.
JohnHOST
I currently have it slotted at 519 in the All Film Noirs Project.
JohnHOST
Director Richard Fleischer was still early in his feature film career when he made Bodyguard (1948), but he was beginning a remarkable run of economical RKO crime pictures.
JohnHOST
He followed this film with Follow Me Quietly (1949), and Armored Car Robbery (1950), eventually directing one of the great confined space film noirs, The Narrow Margin (1952).
JohnHOST
Fleischer's early crime films demonstrate how much tension could be squeezed out of the modest budget and short running times.
JohnHOST
Lawrence Tierney plays Mike Carter, an LA police detective whose temper and refusal to play by the rules quickly cost him his badge.
JohnHOST
Audiences familiar with the murderous Tierney of Born to Kill (1947) and The Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947) get essentially the same intimidating screen presence, except for this time he's trying to solve the murder rather than commit it.
JohnHOST
Bodyguard (1948) is recommended for serious film noir fans.
Adam HolmesHOST
Please, could one of you tell us, what is this film? What makes it unique? And sort of give listeners a broad sense of the plot without giving away too much.
Jonathan GeffnerGUEST
Well, I think of it as a neo-noir movie, very heavily influenced by the film noir genre, which is a favorite of mine.
Jonathan GeffnerGUEST
So I'm the writer, by the way, as well as playing the lead role of Vantrilo, a ventriloquist detective, and his wooden partner, Sam Suede.
Jonathan GeffnerGUEST
And I have two other lead role actors here with me today, the wonderful Deborah Twiss and the wonderful Ed Altman, who play very crucial roles in the film as well.
Adam HolmesHOST
When the Sam Swade character was first mentioned by name, there was a big chuckle from my end of things anyway.
Adam HolmesHOST
There are... everyone is clearly having a wonderful time.
Adam HolmesHOST
Is that true? Or was it just one of those films like Apocalypse Now that was awful and, you know, it just looks fun on set? Because it seems like everyone is having a lot of the time of their lives playing these archetypes, which even if the film noir genre is...
Adam HolmesHOST
old now you know getting on for a hundred years old we still recognize all of these people and i think also there's a there's a little bit of agatha christie going on as well so that some of these characters feel familiar from that does that does that ring true
Tim CatesHOST
You
Steve SaxHOST
know what I like to see, too, is some of the spots are going on a tour like on Film Noir.
Steve SaxHOST
Yes.
Steve SaxHOST
Like they had with Eddie Muller.
Tim CatesHOST
It's like, I don't know.
Tim CatesHOST
We never saw anything.
Tim CatesHOST
And then the other class I took was a history of film noir.
Tim CatesHOST
Oh.
JoyHOST
[laughs] Probably.
JoyHOST
Um, so what I thought was interesting preamble-wise was that in The Third Man, the 1949 film noir, um-
LauraHOST
Yeah
JoyHOST
...
JoyHOST
I'm 100% sure that I've seen it and studied it, but it was so long ago that, like, I could really do with a rewatch.
LauraHOST
Yeah.
JoyHOST
And I love film noir, so.
LauraHOST
I, yeah, I like film noir, and I, I was really into, like, any kind of, like, vintage films-
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