Classic Film Noir At Twentieth Century Fox
Fox Noir: Welcome to the world of the femme fatale and multiple flashbacks. Otto Preminger’s “Laura” with Clifton Webb is the crown jewel. And Gene Tierney.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Jan 31, 2022 | Criterion Collection, Film Noir
Fox Noir: Welcome to the world of the femme fatale and multiple flashbacks. Otto Preminger’s “Laura” with Clifton Webb is the crown jewel. And Gene Tierney.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | May 22, 2023 | 70s, A+, Amazon, Apple TV+, Film Music, Film Music | LA Music Scene, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
Polanski captured the FEEL of LA better than anyone before or sense. Jack Nicholson gives his greatest performance as private dick J. J. ” Jake” Gittes.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Feb 3, 2026 | 50s, A-, Amazon, Apple TV+, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Streaming, YouTube
Bogart is superb playing a queer-coded male lead. He’s emotionally volatile, unable to be in a stable heterosexual relationship, deeply suspicious of intimacy and terrified of being “found out”.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Sep 15, 2022 | 50s, A-, Film Noir, Ratings: Movies and Television
The buildup to Monroe’s superstardom started here. The magnificent widescreen technicolor cinematography is by Joseph MacDonald.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Sep 10, 2022 | 50s, A+, Amazon, Apple TV+, Film Music, Film Music | LA Music Scene, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
Wood, Dean and Mineo form a nuclear family under the shadow of Griffith Park Observatory in Nicholas Ray’s masterpiece “Rebel Without a Cause.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Jan 16, 2024 | 50s, Amazon, Apple TV+, B-, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
“The Big Combo” features a gay couple (played by Earl Holliman and Lee Van Cleef) whose chosen profession also adds to their fascination and their sexiness.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Jan 30, 2026 | 50s, A-, Criterion Collection, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming
By late 1956, it had become the highest-grossing French film released in the United States. It is also one of the most successful queer films of all time since, although queer coded, something is clearly going on between Christina and Nicole!
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s, A, Amazon, Apple TV+, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
Yes, that is Mercedes McCambridge as an unnamed lesbian gang leader getting her kicks while watching Janet Leigh getting roughed up in “A Touch of Evil.”
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Sep 1, 2022 | 40s, A-, Amazon, Apple TV+, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
Performances to savor. Mary Astor does a superb turn as Bridget O’Shaughnessy, a Celtic Tiger avant la lettre!
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Nov 3, 2025 | 40s, Amazon, Apple TV+, C, Cinematographers, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming
Gay writer DeWitt Bodeen skillfully creates a queer subtext that is both subtle and present, reflecting themes of isolation and existential despair.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Sep 1, 2022 | 40s, A+, Amazon, Apple TV+, Film Music, Film Music | LA Music Scene, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
“Laura” is one of the classic film noirs. Gene Tierney is born and Clifton Webb becomes a star in his fifties. Haunting Raksin score.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Sep 1, 2022 | 40s, A+, Amazon, Apple TV+, Film Music, Film Music | LA Music Scene, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
“Double Indemnity” is the best of the three great film noirs of 1944, the others being “Laura” and “The Woman in the Window”. The three leads are superb as is Wilder’s direction.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Mar 24, 2024 | 40s, B+, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, YouTube
Powell is in excellent company, and he acquits himself admirably. He also gets props for being the first to play Marlowe.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Jun 5, 2024 | 40s, A+, Amazon, Apple TV+, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, YouTube
Brilliantly filmed in high Germanic style by a wondrously talented bunch of ex-pat Viennese uber talents: Curtiz, Anton Grot and Max Steiner.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Sep 1, 2022 | 40s, A-, Amazon, Apple TV+, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
“Gilda”: Rita Hayworth’s star-making performance, directed by Charles Vidor, with cinematography by Rudolph Mate and Jack Cole’s choreography.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Feb 3, 2026 | 40s, A, Amazon, Apple TV+, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
Stanwyck gives one of her most controlled, lethal performances, and Douglas’s debut is astonishing – he plays Walter as a man who has been dying for years, a man whose entire identity is built around Martha.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Nov 1, 2025 | 40s, A, Directors (Hitchcock and others), Film Noir, Film Reviews, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
Working with master cinematographer Lee Garmes, director Edmund Goulding produced one of the GREAT film noirs, a genre he had never worked in before and would never work in again.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Mar 24, 2024 | 40s, Amazon, Apple TV+, B+, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
“Brute Force”: Our homosexual is interested in art and music. Hume Cronyn, a consummate actor, plays him to the hilt.
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