Christine and I spent a good bit of time browsing Cody's Books in San Francisco when we were there in the fall.She secretly purchased a calendar for me, a compilation of mostly French film noir posters.
I suppose it's appropriate that many are French since they gave us the term film noir. I suppose it's also a great San Francisco gift. If San Francisco isn't the city film noir calls home, it's at least a renter there.
The Maltese Falcon, Dark Passage and a host of others are set in the city by the bay.
I put it up in my office at my day job. Adds an extra splash of color across the room from the Doctor Who poster.
Looks like for the month of January, a green Orson Wells as Harry Lime will be peering over my shoulder as I work, and The Big Sleep, Psycho (not sure I agree with that one as film noir), Little Caesar and I Love Trouble are coming in the months ahead.
Too bad my office isn't across the street from a building with a neon sign.
(My calendar, in case you want one, is officially the Black Cinema Noire calendar from Tushita.com.)
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If you think of noir as having a certain starkness about it then maybe Psycho works. I suppose there is a sort of relationship between noir and horror though I'd be at a loss to define that relationship exactly.
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