Welcome to a New Year World. I doubt it's going to be a happy one, but that's why we have movies, right? These days it's more essential than ever to embrace, cherish, and protect the people and things we love, for reasons I make explicit in my Letter from the Publisher in our latest NOIR CITY—which is what this email heralds. If there's a unifying theme to this issue, it's the eclecticism our contributors bring to the consideration of our favorite film genre. Many thanks to editor-in-chief Imogen Sara Smith and associate editor Danilo Castro for their vision and diligence, and to all the loyal patrons of the Film Noir Foundation for their continued support. It used to bother me when some contemporary fans called these movies "comfort food." After all, I described them as 'warning flares' in the first sentence I ever wrote about the subject. But these days, looking around at the mess we've made of everything, perhaps it is sensible to look for safety and solace in movies about avarice, paranoia, and murder.
Take care and enjoy what you can!
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FROM NOIR CITY MAGAZINE NO. 30
Christa Faust pays tribute to her top ten portrayals of "women of a certain age" in film noir plus her honorable mentions and a prime selection from the neo-noir genre. READ
Sharon Knolle explores the noir genre's dirties cops from the classic era through the turbulent seventies and into the modern era. READ
In this issue's edition installment, Ben Terrall dives into Richard Brook's novel The Brick Foxhole, the controversy around it, and its big screen adaption, Crossfire and the elements left out of it. READ
