Morning all! #FilmNoir

Night all! Sweet #FilmNoir dreams…

Samuel Fuller directs classic #FilmNoir The Naked Kiss (1964), on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social tonight (very late tonight) at 3:15AM. Starring Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley, Michael Dante and Virginia Grey. We highly recommend!

A Mancunian #FilmNoir classic capturing a lost city. An excellent article by Manchester Mill about Val Guest’s #BritNoir Hell is a City (1960) : manchestermill.co.uk/a-mancunian-...

Speaking of filmmaking in #Wales. North Wales town's 'architectural beauty' takes centre stage in new #FilmNoir. The 1940s-style The Fatal Dilemma (2026), set for a February release, aims to shine a spotlight on Colwyn Bay's 'glorious past': www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-w...

First #Welsh Netflix drama hopes to build on success; #S4C series Dal Y Mellt (Rough Cut), which tells the story of a group of Welsh misfits as they enter into a world of criminality: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The entire first series is also on #BBCiPlayer: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Head over to @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social at 1PM for a lunchtime #BritNoir screening of Powell & Pressburger’s excellent The Small Back Room (1949). #FilmNoir

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On #BBCTwo today at 11:25am classic #FilmNoir #BritNoir The Third Man (1949) then on #BBCiPlayer: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

We’re up late watching Godfather Part II on #BBCTWO! It’s a Christmas / New Year film right?! 😂

#BornOnThisDay Freda Jackson (1907-1990) star of British crime films such as Lewis Gilbert's The Good Die Young (1954) (on the right in the pic below; that’s Joan Collins’ back to the camera by the way) and Women of Twilight (1952). #FilmNoir #BritNoir

Jigsaw (1962) is on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social today at 6PM. Directed by Val Guest and starring Jack Warner and Ronald Lewis. Highly recommend! #BritNoir #FilmNoir

Brigitte Bardot: The blonde bombshell who revolutionised French cinema www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Brigitte Bardot (1934-2025)

Hey #FilmNoir folks in the UK! Starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson and a really bad wig; Double Indemnity (1944) has just started on #BBCTWO. But you can catch up on it on #BBCiPlayer: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

One of our favourite #BritNoir titles is on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social today at 6:15PM! Get yourselves ready for two excellent performances by both Peter Cushing and André Morell in Cash on Demand (1961). Directed by Quentin Lawrence and @hammerfilms.bsky.social. Enjoy this Christmas #FilmNoir

In the latest @studiocanal.co.uk podcast, @simonbrew.bsky.social talks about the brand new release of The Agatha Christie Collection on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray with Dr @markaldridge.info: audioboom.com/posts/882243...

Plenty of classic American #FilmNoir on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social’s Encore service: The Stranger (1946): tptvencore.co.uk/product/the-... The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946): tptvencore.co.uk/product/the-... He Walked By Night (1948): tptvencore.co.uk/product/he-w...

We know it isn’t #FilmNoir; but it’s Christmas, so we don’t care! Citizen Kane (1941) is on #BBCTwo this morning at 09:00am. And on #BBCiPlayer as always: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Merry Christmas to all #FilmNoir fans!

A fascinating #BritNoir on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social tonight at 10:25PM; Sapphire (1959), directed by Basil Dearden and starring Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, Paul Massie, Bernard Miles, Orlando Martins, Fenella Fielding and the great Earl Cameron! #FilmNoir

Classic Film Review: “Detour” (1945), still as Noir as #FilmNoir Gets: rogersmovienation.com/2025/12/22/c...

#BritNoir The Shop at Sly Corner (aka Code of Scotland Yard) is on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social this morning at 10:05am. Directed by George King and starring Oskar Homolka, Muriel Pavlow and Derek Farr. Keep an eye out for Diana Dors as well. #FilmNoir

The train departing platform #BBCTwo today at 3:30pm is Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951); it will be on #BBCiPlayer there after: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... Also, we highly recommend Stephen Rebello's fantastic Criss-Cross book on the film. #FilmNoir

Before we forget (because we have in the last few days); you can watch #FilmNoir classic Laura (1944) on #BBCiPlayer over the Christmas hols! Love some of the artwork for this one: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

If you missed our screenings of Mexican #FilmNoir Victims of Sin (1951) over the passed few months; you can watch it on the BFI's Player during the Melodrama season: player.bfi.org.uk/subscription...

We were lucky enough to have one of the films from @indicator.bsky.social’s new #FilmNoir boxset during #FilmNoirFest in November; and if you did see it, you will know how amazing A Prize of Gold (1955) looked on the big screen. We highly recommend this great release!

HAPPY COLUMBIA NOIR #7: MADE IN BRITAIN RELEASE DAY TO THOSE WHO CELEBRATE! This six-film set not only features world and UK Blu-ray premieres, but a 120-page book, and is limited to 6000 individually numbered copies. Get yours here: tinyurl.com/48j8n3zs

Classic Powell & Pressburger action on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social today with The Small Back Room (1949), 4:20PM starring David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Jack Hawkins and Leslie Banks. Highly recommend. #BritNoir #FilmNoir

Very sad news to wake up to. Hollywood director Rob Reiner and wife Michele found dead in LA home www.bbc.com/news/article...

On @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social first thing tomorrow morning, 08:45am, Dick Tracy vs. Crime, Inc. (1941) worth checking out.

Peter Greene Dies: ‘Pulp Fiction’ & ‘The Mask’ Actor Was 60 deadline.com/2025/12/pete...

If you missed Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) last night on #BBCTwo then you can watch it on #BBCiPlayer for the next 29 days... or watch it this Thursday on #BBCFour, 9:40PM: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #FilmNoir fans are divided on whether it is a noir or not, what do you think?

Denis Villeneuve's Sicario (2015) starring Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, and Josh Brolin on BBC TWO tonight at 10PM. Then on #BBCiPlayer there after: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Can’t go wrong with some ‘Vise’ on a Sunday afternoon…

Happy to say that the new 4K of Sunset Boulevard (1950) looked incredible on the Megascreen in #Bristol yesterday. #FilmNoir Our thanks, as always, to @20thcflicks.bsky.social and @filmhubsw.bsky.social.

Gloria Swanson in all her Technicolor glory for the opening screening of Swanson Melodrama double bill. Next up, #FilmNoir classic Sunset Boulevard (1950) around the 1:30pm. #SilentFilm with thanks to @filmhubsw.bsky.social and @20thcflicks.bsky.social! #Bristol #Melodrama

Hey #FilmNoir Fans! #Noirvember might be over; but @filmnoiruk.bsky.social are still here! So don't forget to join us this Saturday in #Bristol for a Gloria Swanson double bill with #SilentFilm Stage Struck (1925) + the new 4K restoration of Sunset Boulevard (1950): ti.to/film-noir-uk...

Drected by Joseph Losey and starring Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd, Leo McKern, Paul Daneman, Peter Cushing, Alec McCowen and Renee Houston; check out #BritNoir Time Without Pity (1957) on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social today, 4:30pm. Cinematography by the great Freddie Francis. #FilmNoir

A great #FilmNoir double bill on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social tonight with #BritNoir Brighton Rock (1948) on at 9pm and then In a Lonely Place (1950) directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame, from 10:50pm! Two fantastic films!

Happy 77th Birthday to Sally Jane Bruce, star of… well, you’ve probably guessed which #FilmNoir Sally was in. #BOTD #BornOnThisDay

‘A Desert’ (2024) Review: An Intentional #NeoNoir Nightmare: www.indiependent.co.uk/a-desert-rev...

Murder mystery The Voice of Merrill (1952) is on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social this afternoon at 1:05pm. Directed by John Gilling and starring Valerie Hobson, James Robertson Justice and Edward Underdown. Some very good cinematography by Monty Berman. #BritNoir #FilmNoir

Our annual #FilmNoir Christmas screening is back! Join us on Wednesday 17th December, 6PM for Marcel Bluwal’s Le Monte-charge (Paris Pick-up/ 1962) at #Bristol’s, @wshed.bsky.social. Christmas Eve in Paris! What could possibly go wrong?! Tickets now on sale: www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1368...

If you missed it during #FilmNoirFest; another chance to watch it on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social this morning 👇

We have just been reminded that it was four years ago today that we officially launched with our first event. Screening of Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) on 35mm and The Maltese Falcon (1940) in 4K @wshed.bsky.social #FilmNoir

#BornOnThisDay #FilmNoir star Gloria Grahame (1923-1981). #BOTD See her in Nicholas Ray’s #FilmNoir A Woman's Secret (1949) on #BBCiPlayer: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

An Ealing film which is on the edge of #FilmNoir is on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social today, 6:15pm. Directed by the much underrated Robert Hamer and starring Mervyn Johns and the wonderful Googie Withers it’s Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945). Screenplay by Diana Morgan.

Happy #Thanksgiving to all our #FilmNoir friends in the USA. We can’t think of many classic noirs set during the Thanksgiving holiday… but here’s one at least, 5 Against the House (1955).