23 February 2010
Brilliantly constructed Film Noir montage to Massive Attack.
Robert Rodriguez tweeted a link to a Film Noir You Tube video the other day. It came from Mr Rodriguez AND it was about Film Noir - naturally, I had to check it out!
This was created by RubyTuesday717, and he writes:
"After many long hours, this is my tribute to my favorite genre, to the dark shadows and the profound despair of the soul. I tried to include as many as I could get my hands on, though there are obviously some that I overlooked, some accidently (the absence of "The Sweet Smell of Success" and "White Heat" are the most obvious and shameful), some purposefully (save Sam Fuller's 1964 pulp masterpiece "The Naked Kiss," I decided to stay strictly within the 18-year period between 1940 and 1958, so absolutely no neo-noirs like "Chinatown", and even more importantly, absolutely no colors)."
The song chosen for the montage is "Angel" by Massive Attack, a perfect selection.
For more information on the movies throughout the montage, see the original You Tube page:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOgBa2Oij1A
I had to post it here, as I have already watched it 3 times in 2 days - I'm slightly obsessed by this wonderful homage to Film Noir. And the song just makes it more pleasurable.