Frank Vatel @Vatel1675
Reader, watcher, and scribbler of noir. Lover of all things vintage. Pro-print and analog-agog. A black-and-white fella in a CGI world. Chicago Joined March 2018-
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My Top 13 “Transgressive” Novels to Read Before You Die by Stephen J. Golds punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/2022/07/02/my-…
Hadn’t seen THE BREAKING POINT, the less famous adaptation of TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT, until last night. It doesn’t have Bogie & Bacall, but Bogie & Bacall didn’t have a script this tight or action this suspenseful. Now featured in the Criterion Channel’s 1950: Peak Noir collection.
"Crime isn't a behavior, it's a learning opportunity." --Patricia Highsmith.
I hate the marketing phrase "upmarket literary crime novel" & everything it implies about the genre, which is essentially most crime novels are commercial crap, but this book is literature.
Is this the best boxing noir ever made? It is certainly up there with THE SET UP (1949) & FAT CITY (1972) as the bleakest I have seen. Amazing script by Rod Serling & some stunning cinematography by Arthur J. Ornitz.
“He was built like a fire hydrant and had a hairline that was retreating like Lee at Gettysburg.” —S.A. Cosby, BLACKTOP WASTELAND (2020)
Great post-apocalyptic story by @drewgum. Such a distinctive tone and viewpoint, not to mention flat-out funny. Published by @punk_magazine. punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/2024/04/13/obl…
There's a reason old pulp fiction was called pulp: it was cheap! For @CrimeReads I wrote about the early 20th-century heyday of fast writers who wrote cheaply for pulp magazines read by everybody. crimereads.com/early-pulp-fic…
Next Sunday I'm guest hosting #BNoirDetour with WICKED WOMAN, my favorite trash noir! Please join me for a platinum blonde hussy, philandering barkeep husband & Percy Helton at his seedy worst!
This chap’s pretty damned good at what he does. If you have a vote...
This chap’s pretty damned good at what he does. If you have a vote...
If you want your characters to sound like they’ve lived through some hard shit, don’t have them talk about the hard shit. (Or allow their interiority to read like a therapy session.) Let readers pick up on it indirectly. Stoicism is often the most convincing way to convey trauma.
If you want your characters to sound like they’ve lived through some hard shit, don’t have them talk about the hard shit. (Or allow their interiority to read like a therapy session.) Let readers pick up on it indirectly. Stoicism is often the most convincing way to convey trauma.
TO NEWBIES: The story you’re most embarrassed to show people is probably the closest to your voice and also your best one.
TO NEWBIES: The story you’re most embarrassed to show people is probably the closest to your voice and also your best one.
My favorite thing about noir? It doesn’t give a shit about providing audiences with likable characters, and fans of the genre don’t mind. BORN TO KILL (1947), one of the great examples of a film without a hero, will air tonight on #NoirAlley. #TCMParty
Recently went on a mini-binge of 1970s Elmore Leonard. 52 PICK UP has a grimy appeal, but SWAG feels like the greater novel, pivoting the author towards the kind of interesting character observation that would become his stock-in-trade. It has a great ending, too.
Piper Lorre.
As HCC celebrates its 20th year, I say “thank you” to @CharlesArdai for his labor of love. The imprint has opened a ridiculous number of doors, both by introducing me to titles of Ardai’s choosing with the HCC line, but also through my own exploration of the authors’ catalogues.
New Wind & Root from guest columnist (and former contributor) @CW_Blackwell and Features Editor @CharlotteHam504 (with a Spotify playlist!!) reckonreview.com/wind-and-root-…
“I had one more question for you, Mr. Myers. And I promise, as soon as I’m done, I’ll be out of your hair—is it your real hair, by the way? Or is part of the mask? Because it looks awfully real if it’s not. And I mean that as a compliment, sir. Anyways…”
"They threw me off the hay truck about noon." These beautiful late-'70s Vintage Books editions were my introduction to the work of #jamesmcain. Read them practically back-to-back as they came out.
Todd Longwell @toddlongwell1
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Johnny O 🇨🇦 @JohnnyO_71
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@Vatel1675 Two clowns in a one clown bag is pure brilliance. What a line!
Ace of the title sequence/graphic designer/filmmaker Saul Bass (May 8, 1920 – April 25, 1996)
I just finished my book, have nothing to do and the whole day ahead. Just plenty of dvds and blurays to choose from. A little rain would help.
@Gabino_Iglesias And they’re worried about drag queens
When you pick up a @BBowyerAuthor book, nothing can prepare you for the sledgehammer to the face. You gotta know you’ll get wrecked 😎
It doesn't happen all that often so I get really excited when a book grabs me (by the throat, in this case) and doesn't let me go. Kill Factor by @BBowyerAuthor is a wild ride of a read though probably not for the faint-hearted. Highly recommend. amazon.co.uk/Kill-Factor-Br…
I love Jane Alexander #TCMParty #KramerVsKramer
@RufusTSuperfly You're laughing. This poor woman interrupted giving birth to pose for the picture and you're laughing.
I hear banjos.
when you hire David Cronenberg to create your Republican values ad
These guys definitely robbed a bank with the Joker
A Portrait of four clowns taken circa 1897. Location unknown
If I had a billion dollars, I’d found a studio where I approved any show the algorithm told me to reject.
David Cross and Bob Odenkirk were meant to star in a docu-style comedy about rival cult gurus manipulating the minds of their deluded followers. The series got scrapped as the analytics & marketing department didn’t get it. (Source: variety.com/2024/tv/news/d…)
Many of you are too young to understand this reference to an old National Lampoon cover, but trust me, this is genius.
Campaign season is heating up
The best lightning bolt feeling in the world when niggling plot hole fills itself in a warm car with a sappy love song on the radio and sunshine filtering through winter's last gasp
‘Ghost Story’ & ‘Floating Dragon’ by Peter Straub were such intense and revelatory reading experiences for me as a teen. Was led to ‘Ghost Story’ by @StephenKing in ‘Danse Macabre’ circa 1982.
📽 Night time street shot from #FilmNoir NIGHTMARE ALLEY (1947) 🎞
@Vatel1675 @Crisopera1 I went for another French swimming pool* but absolutely, yes, beautiful, chilling, dark movie. Ozon is a master, and Rampling has rarely been better. *good double bill, btw
Two quick takeaways from this. #2 Publishing a racket #1 Lots of indie crime authors should feel better about themselves, because many are selling way more books - and being read more - than so many big 5 authors, even if you are not making the immediate $$.
Great piece on what we learned about the publishing industry from Penguin vs US DOJ case. 'DOJ’s lawyer collected data on 58,000 titles published in a year & discovered that 90% of them sold fewer than 2,000 copies & 50% sold less than a dozen copies.' elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-…
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