ASK EDDIE - April 6 2023
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- FNF prez Eddie Muller responds to film noir fan questions fielded by the Foundation's Director of Communications Anne Hockens. In this episode, we discuss the selection process for the Oscar’s “In Memoriam” presentation, season two of Perry Mason, Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave, the impact of the studio system’s treatment of talent on film noirs, “transitional” film noir and more. We wind things up answering two possibly divisive questions, who is the toughest male protagonist in noir and what is the best film noir. On the cat front, Emily and Charlotte are background players.
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This week’s questions:
1. What do you think of the methodology used by the Academy to determine inclusions for the In Memoriam during the Oscars' broadcast, and is it possible to submit names for inclusion?
- Pete from sunny Sydney, Australia.
2. Given how hard it was to find the elements to restore Detour, what are the odds of rescuing films from a now defunct independent movie company?
- Michael Johnson, Post Falls, Idaho
3. We thought "El vampiro negro" was great. About a half hour into it, we spotted a brief shot of Chicago (the Wrigley Building, the Michigan Ave. Bridge, two buses with "Chicago" on the sides, and a Schlitz sign!). Do you know what happened?
- Donna and David, in Chicago
4. Just looking for your thoughts on season two of “Perry Mason” on HBO.
- Kathy
5. Have you seen “Decision to Leave”, South Korean director Park Chan-wook's acclaimed new neo-noir?
- Kathleen from Chicago
6. In your book “Dark City”, you link the Hollywood studio system to the rise and flourishing of film noir in the 40s. Of course, the films were produced out of that system, but I think you are claiming more, that the moods and substance of noir films were (in part) generated out of the studio system and how it treated actors, directors, writers, and others. Could you say more about that?
- Mike
7. Can you recommend other film noir movies that are shot on location? If there aren’t that many film noirs shot on location, you can recommend non-noir but from the same time-era (1930-1960s).
- Iisakki, Finland
8. Are there any female-led detective noirs from the classic noir period (think “The Maltese Falcon” or “Murder, My Sweet” but with a female detective)? What about after the classic noir period?
- Ryan from Studio City adjacent (aka Valley Village, CA)
9. I have a two-part question about Gloria Grahame:
What did you think of her Oscar winning performance in "The Bad and the Beautiful"? And, Eddie, are you happy or sad that you watched the Gloria Grahame performance you said you were "saving" to watch in "Man on a Tightrope"?
- Marjorie from the poor part of Connecticut
10. The femmes fatale are constantly discussed and are the proper focus of the genre. What I’d like to know is how Ann Shirley got from P.E.I. to Bay City? How did the spunky orphan from Green Gables wind up on the west coast, being raised by a policeman? How did she find her way into LA journalism and falling in with Philip Marlowe?
- Eric
11. Do you think there is such thing as transitional film noir? Or do you think anything from 1960 onwards is simply neo-noir?
- Brett Lambert, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
12. What did you think of gene hackman in remake of “The Narrow Margin?”
- Alan, San Anselmo, Ca.
13. Eddie, you’ve mentioned that you’ve watched films several times. Is there, in your or Anne’s opinion, an optimal number of times a film should be watched to truly appreciate its many facets?
- Your Henchman contributor, TB, Costa Mesa, CA
14. Simple question: in your opinion, who is the toughest male protagonist in the history of classic American film noir? My definition of toughness would be a character who is not intimidated by anybody, so my nominee would be Jeff Bailey from “Out of the Past”.
- Joe, Hermosa Beach, CA
15. What is the best film noir? This is a difficult question to answer, as there are many great film noirs that could be considered the best. Some of the most highly acclaimed films in this genre include “The Maltese Falcon” (1941), “Double Indemnity” (1944), “Out of the Past” (1947), and “Touch of Evil” (1958).
- Brian from Toronto
Listening in Nov 2023, when Gloria Grahame is Star of the Month. Blonde Fever is one of the first films they aired & I absolutely loved ît both times I watched it ❤❤
Great show. Re. female detectives in ‘40s Hollywood: Orson Welles reportedly wanted Agnes Moorehead for the role in The Stranger that went to Edward G. Robinson.
In terms of women detectives, it's neo-noir and at the time catered to teen audiences, but I was a big fan of Veronica Mars.
Claire Dodd was wonderful as Della in the early Perry Mason movies. But no one can replace Barbara Hale.
49:00 Gloria Grahame was nominated for an Oscar for Crossfire (1947)
Toughest male protagonist = Sterling Hayden in just about anything! 🤛🏼 💪 ❤
"I'm sharing a Netflix account". Unfortunately Netflix did away with that. I was sharing my account with family, but now I can only select my home internet.
That was soooo interesting. Thanks both of you! At the moment I'm rediscovering the Film Noir movement. I have a very large VHS and DVD collection of Film Noir movies but I'm really impressed about the great re-releases of Film Noir movies in the last years. A few days ago I received my first "Flicker Alley" box set: "Repeat Performance", which I'll see tonight. I'm really looking forward to it. Also the great extras looks great together with the souvenir booklet, which I will read after I have seen the movie. And you can be sure that will be not the last "Flicker Alley" box set I will order! Best wishes from Berlin, Germany!
I love the mention for Terence Blanchard's score in 25th Hour, I was thinking of it as well while watching the new Perry Mason. There is an album available for Season 1!
Blanchard has had two of his operas recently performed at the Met!
FYI, the This Week's Questions section is from a previous episode. Not the current one.
I hope they see this.
Corrected--thanks for posting, Mr. Palooka.
Where's our Saturday night Noir? Didn't Warner Brothers issue any noirs? I'm crushed.
They could have worked it in.
Eddie watched "Chinatown" 40 times! And other movies more times. I should think that would ruin the film for him.
Female detectives - Are you forgetting Nancy Drew (1939)with Bonita Granville? They were feature films.
By the way, I just watched " The Inner Circle" (1946), a very amusing parody of film noir detective movies. It starts with a beautiful blonde entering a sharply dressed P.I.'s office, sits on a desk, and displays her shapely legs. It takes off from there. Recommend.
There are movies I have watched over a dozen times and never tire of them. Sometimes this will reveal something previously unnoticed. Oftentimes my repeated viewings are because I wanted a guest to see a particular movie so that brings the view count up as well.
The Man Who Cheated himself has some location shooting in San Fransisco. A B-movie like The Tattooed Stranger was shot mostly on location in New York, Guilty Bystander at least partly. Susan Hayward in Deadline At Dawn is one of the two detectives.
Thanks for warning me off from the new Perry Mason, not that I would have been much interested in a reboot. Sounds like the same old, same old: no new ideas but lets twist the politics into the current miasma and see if it floats. We all know what floats. My understanding of the original Perry Mason was that it came out of Erle Stanley Gardner 's obsession with people who had been wrongly convicted. I could go along with that, who couldn't?, and Raymond Burr was Perry Mason: the dark knight in search of justice. The novels are okay too, the movies not so much.
the questions are from an earlier episode, not this one
Corrected!
Location film: DOA