Episode 5: My Garden of Dark Black Flowers

In this week’s episode, we discuss the glories of films noir, from yesteryear and today. If you would like to drink along with us, our booze of the week is Laphroaig Cairdeas scotch, which seemed a far more appropriate pairing for films noir than our usual wine. Glance below the cut for a list of films and people that get mentioned in this week’s episode. Films mentioned Payback Public Enemy Scarface Citizen Kane Nightmare Alley Double Indemnity Sunset Boulevard Ace in the Hole The Lost Weekend The Uninvited Touch of Evil Notorious The Wrong Man Suspicion Strangers on a Train Spellbound Shadow of a Doubt Gaslight Spiral Staircase Detour White Heat Rock All Night Gun Crazy Odds Against Tomorrow Caged Orange Is the New Black (TV) I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang Brick Looper Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Thin Man American Psycho Primal Fear Cape Fear Smoking Aces Strange Days Minority Report Shutter Island Taxi Driver Raging Bull In Bruges Rififi Lion King City of Lost Children Diabolique Bound Le Samourai Plein Soleil / Purple Noon Stray Dog Seven Samurai Drunken Angel High and Low The Bad Sleep Well Cabaret M Arsenic and Old Lace Scarlet Street Millers Crossing Fargo The Big Lebowski The Big Sleep Jackie Brown Pulp Fiction The Man Who Wasn’t There Blood Simple Brazil People mentioned Mel Gibson William DeVane James Cagney Paul Muni Billy Wilder Gloria Swanson Joseph Cotten Ray Milland Kirk Douglas Charlton Heston Peter Jackson Alfred Hitchcock Hume Cronyn Teresa Wright Ingrid Bergman Angela Lansbury Charles Boyer Tyrone Power Joan Blondell Agnes Moorehead Joseph Gordon Levitt Shane Black Robert Downey Jr Val Kilmer Christian Bale Ed Norton Ben Affleck Henri-Georges Clouzot Rafiki Jules Dassin Tim and Pat Wick Christopher Jones Joe Pantoliano Gina Gershon Jean-Pierre Melville Alain Delon Akira Kurosawa Takashi Shimura Toshiro Mifune Fritz Lang Peter Lorre Edward G. Robinson The Coen Brothers Quentin Tarantino Gabriel Byrne Albert Finney Terry Gilliam Other things mentioned The Hays Code CONvergence The Heights Theater CORRECTION (3/15/2014): We were wrong about Joseph Cotten being in Sunset Boulevard. That was William Holden! (In our defense, William Holden’s voice sounds a lot like Joseph Cotten’s. No, seriously! It’s true!) The post Episode 5: My Garden of Dark Black Flowers appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.