Watch the drunks and the lovers appear to take turns as the stars of the Sovereign Light Café

[sovay]

theseatheseatheopensea invited me to make one, so here is a list of a hundred films noirs. It is non-completist. It is non-proscriptive. I had intended it to start with proto-noir and end with neo-noir, but it turned out I had far more than a hundred noirs of the classically defined period to winnow down from and any number of solid citizens and weird little ornaments had already been left by the side of the meme. Like all of the other lists, it will be different tomorrow. Anything on this one that I haven't written about, rest assured that I want to. I would, however, need to sleep more than an hour, which is how the last couple of nights have been going.

Comments

[yhlee]

...I achieved 0/100 :p and count myself lucky to have heard of some of these. (That is, I know you review them but my memory is trash; the ones I recognized were ones of which I'd read the novels.)

[sovay]

(That is, I know you review them but my memory is trash; the ones I recognized were ones of which I'd read the novels.)

Recognition by novels is neat! I didn't think to put many noir or pulp novels on my formative books list. I am not counting any of these as definitive.