Comments on: Paint it Noir

By: darkcitydame4e...

darkcitydame4e... — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:07:07 +0000

“but he doesn’t seem to have been much of a person. Dassin watched his kids, for God’s sake, and he still stabbed him in the back.”

Rick, Thank~you!…for saying (in print and “outloud”) what I was “thinking” about director Edward Dmytryk, behavior toward director Jules Dassin during that period in their lives.

Thanks,
dcd

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:47:15 +0000

IMDB has him at 100; so does Wikipedia. His noir creds were great, alright, but he doesn’t seem to have been much of a person. Dassin watched his kids, for God’s sake, and he still stabbed him in the back.

By: darkcitydame4e...

darkcitydame4e... — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:54:45 +0000

Hi! Rick,
Do you know what age (Director Edward Dmytryk) would have been today?
Because I want to write a paragraph or two about him(Btw, this man noir credentials…are great!) on my eBloggerspot page, but 2 different websites has his age listed at 99 and 100 years old respectively….

Thanks,

ps The website coffeecoffeeand morecoffee list his age at 100 years old….
dcd

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:26:07 +0000

Hi, welcome to Coosa Creek. I love the extras on the Criterion disks; they’re a lot of times almost like a “film school in a box”

If you are into noirs — and I see by your excellent blog that you are — you might be interested in MovieZeal’s just completed “noir month,” for which I contributed a review of “Rififi” here.

I think — but have no data to back it up — that forced happy endings on pessimistic noirs were more common than one would think. Wouldn’t wanna disappoint the audience, which love its happy endings!

Thanks for the comment!

By: darkcitydame4e...

darkcitydame4e... — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:32:51 +0000

Hi! I am kind of new to the “World” of “eBlogging” and after reading the article “Paint It Black,” (I think that I read your very nice article about both directors while cruising the web in early August) every “ounce” of my sympathy went out to the “plight” of the late director Jules Dassins and what he had to endure during that period in his life!

Because I just “discovered” film noir 2 and half years ago, along with the film noir achievements of the late director Jules Dassin’s (The Naked City, Night in the City, Rififi and his Thieves’ Highway) Which I just recently purchased from Criterion…What a very interesting interview on the dvd(That featured Director Jules Dassin, talking about the ending of the film Thieves’ Highway, in which he said, was Zanuck’s idea and not his (Dassin)…Wow! I wasn’t aware of the fact, that the “cop out” ending of the film Thieves Highway was Zanuck’s idea! (and the “pure,” but “greedy” sweetheart of Richard Conte’s actress Barbara Lawrence, Dassin didn’t want her in the film… period!)
What you can learn from those bonus extras on dvds!…”It is amazing!”

Thanks,

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:38:22 +0000

Not much, I’m afraid … we have not really done anything to roll back, for instance, the legislation over the past few years that has gnawed away our personal freedoms, nor have any of the favoritism in awarding contracts for Iraqi “rebuilding” and etc., ever been looked into. The government is very bad at investigating itself.

By: Evan Derrick

Evan Derrick — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:00:13 +0000

This is a great piece, Rick. The blacklist was absolutely horrid. You have to wonder what is happening in our country today that is similar to what happened then, and whether or not we’re doing anything about it.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:30:24 +0000

Indeed, he was. But so was my man Dassin.

By: campanella.joseph

campanella.joseph — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:59:33 +0000

Yeah. I think it was recently playing at one of the art houses here in Chicago.

Talk about badass. Trumbo was the man.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:31:06 +0000

Ummm … Dalton Trumbo? According to Netflix, it’ll be released on DVD in November.