#outback noir

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TONIGHT on the FNF Facebook page, 6:00 PM PT!

FNF prez Eddie Muller responds to film noir fan questions fielded by the Foundation's Director of Communications Anne Hockens In this edition, we discuss women in international noir, Australian neo-noirs, the most interesting sibling character castings, the films that have captivated us, and more. Plus, we get Eddie’s favorite question again. Can you guess what it is? The lightning round also returns. On the cat front, our two new cast members make an appearance.

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The Dry

Outback crime novel about murders in a small town Many years ago I received the second book in this trilogy after receiving it as a gift. I don’t usually read books out of order in a series, and given the hype this book has generated over the years, I’ve always wanted to read the first book to see if I liked it better. My local libraries seem to particularly have a lot of Australian audiobooks…

The Dry

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Saw Ivan Sen’s new movie, Limbo, today. A slow and atmospheric movie, stunningly shot in black and white in the moonscape around Coober Pedy. It stars Simon Baker (unrecognisable from his Mentalist days) as an out of town police officer reviewing a twenty year old cold case of a missing Aboriginal girl. He talks to her still shattered remaining family members and gradually unpicks what happened to her, but there is no easy resolution and the authorities don’t care, then or now, about the case. The casual endemic racism of an Australian country town is the backdrop to it all. A bleak movie that feels true, and a fine addition to Sen’s other outback noir movies, Mystery Road and Goldstone.