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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We rewound the movie so many times to figure out why the table had cushioned “arms” like a couch. Turns out … it’s a table that has cushioned arms like a couch. That’s it. Yet another thing this movie has taught me (BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, 1970)

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Libby Cudmore (SHE/HER) @libbycudmore.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

We used to be a proper country

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Lamps (and Liquor and Vases and Scrims and Couches (!) and Pills) of BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (1970) 💡

Lady pouring liquor in extremely decorated living room

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The Chandeliers Turned Into Table Lamps (!?) of THE ROCKFORD FILES 💡

Lady in amazing pink-flowered pantsuit downing whisky in an enormously beige room w a table lamp that looks like a miniature chandelier

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

If that summary doesn’t grab you, I’m afraid we have very little in common. A criminally underrated gem. #HotHuppertSummer

8:55
Amateur
1994 • DIRECTED BY
Hal Hartley
• TRAILER
105 mins
ACCOUNTANCY, MURDER, AMNESIA, TORTURE, ECSTASY, UNDERSTANDING, REDEMPTION A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is failing in her attempts to write marketable pornography.

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

If that summary doesn’t grab you, I’m afraid we have very little in common. A criminally underrated gem. #HotHuppertSummer

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Enjoying following Poppy Liu (HACKS, I LOVE BOOSTERS) on letterboxd boxd.it/68QC3

Poppy Liu
PATRON
The Birds
The Birds 1963
Watched Jun 11, 2026
TL;DR we are the birds and this is a socialist movie.
This was insane and hilarious. A comedy in fact!
Midway thru the movie (during the first bird attack) my bestie Kit was like "what do the birds represent?" And I was like "idk but I bet it'll become clear by the end." Then the end came and we were both still like .....what do the birds represent.... So we went on YouTube to watch people's film analyses (many are stupid, some are ok) which is where I came across Tippi's interview where she talks about how Alfred Hitchcock was a total creep to her and ruined her career (I didn't know!) and then toh the movie kinda all made sense under this new light that Hitchcock was kind of a predator and misogynist.
Side note: I'm working my way through some of
"the classics" and it sucks that more often than not you watch one and then find out the male director is a POS and abuser and hates women or something like that.

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Watching a cheesy ‘69 action pic called STILETTO & the “stars” are completely forgettable (Alex Cord? Patrick O’Neal?) but omg the bit players are a murderers row of future stars: Raul Julia! M Emmet Walsh! Olympia Dukakis! Roy Scheider! Charles Freakin’ Durning! A bad movie but what a time capsule!

Movie poster for STILETTO —sunglasses man holding stiletto. Montage of sexy action shot around him

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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

OH MY BAD THERE IT IS

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

The Mod Poolside Furniture of LA PISCINE (1969)

Jane Birkin tests the water with her toes. A wicker chair hangs nearby. Also, theres a massive black lounge chair that looks like a torture device

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This is the way ❤️ (A WEDDING, d. Altman, 1978) @criterionchannl.bsky.social

Woman talking to other woman at bathroom mirror

Oh, you shouldn't put tap water on your face, hon,

cause it'll dry your skin out and give you wrinkles.

That's okay.
I plan to age interestingly.

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

No one makes me laugh like Bresson (LA FEMME DOUCE, 1969)

[picture of monkey behind chain link fence]

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Freaky Chabrol composition (THIS MAN MUST DIE, 1969)

Man and woman long sown woman’s head behind man’s, their eyes juxtaposed strangely green lamp shade in foreground

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The Perfect Couches of THE ROCKFORD FILES

Jim and lady and green couch with white crosshatch pattern

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Love this extremely ‘80s cover. Patrick Bateman-looking motherfucker lol

Man adjusts his tie in … mirror?

PATRIA
hiGHSMITH
THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY
"The Ripley books are marvellously, insanely readable
-H.R.F.Keating in The Times

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

The Lamps of DECISION TO LEAVE (2022) 💡

Man lying supine in bed w hands on belly head turned towed bedside lamp. Woman seen from shoulders down standing in doorway preparing to shut door (r)

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

It’s not the Pink Pony Club, but it’ll do (THE BIG SLEEP, 1978)

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

If he is actually dead, that does it, Jesus, you got me, I’m yours

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Love Marlowe’s middle-schooler-with-a-crush investigative technique here (THE BIG SLEEP, 1978)

Writing RUSTY REGAN over and over again in different handwriting styles WTF

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

The Lamps (and Phone Booths) of SOMETHING WILD (1986) 💡 📞

Jeff Daniels standing in one of those half booths at night in front of a motel where a guy driving a motorcycle with a dog on the back has just pulled up

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

The Lamps of DESERT HEARTS (1984) 💡 🐈‍⬛

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

The Lamps of DESERT HEARTS (1984) 💡 🐈‍⬛

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I’ve watched a lot of 1940s movies and seen a lot of 1940s fashion trends but WTF Bette Davis?! (from JUNE BRIDE, 1948)

Bette Davis on plane wearing blouse whose neckline is inscribed LINDA (Robert Montgomery sits beside her)

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The (Many, Many) Lamps of F/X (1986) 💡

Mason Adams yelling at Jerry Orbach in a room full of lamps

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

What a joy to rewatch this movie—this performance!

Michael Sharp
Manhunter 1986
PRO
MANHUNTER
Rewatched Feb 18, 2026
Not generally a fan of "serial killer" movies (including beloved films like ZODIAC, which I found boring), but I adore this one, mostly because it doesn't showcase the act of killing. We see aftermath photos and watch the killer toy w/ a couple of targets, so there's psychological horror, but there's very little graphic violence. The movie never feels cheap or exploitative. It's basically a police procedural... until halfway through when it absolutely zags and becomes a (stunning, touching, horrifying) portrait of the killer himself. As soon as Noonan enters the picture, it goes from Good to Great and stays there. When he takes Joan Allen to touch a tiger on the veterinarian's operating table, I was like
"this is one of the most amazing shots in cinema history!" William Petersen is nominally the star of this movie, but Noonan and Allen are the ones I remember. RIP Tom Noonan-you did some masterful work here and everyone should see it.

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Would wear this tshirt (MANHUNTER, 1986) #RIPTomNoonan

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

The Lamps of IT’S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Extremely underrated Westlake adaptation. Gonna watch this tomorrow #RIPRobertDuvall

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

These pre-Code movies are *filthy* (FIVE-STAR FINAL, 1931)

Indignant old white guy gestures w left hand

“RANDALL NEEDS
A GOOD JACKING-UP!”

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

It’s fucking 🥶 ❄️ 🥶 but I made it to the gym 💪 yay me

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

The Hats of Nordic Noir (GIRL WITH HYACINTHS, 1950) @criterionchannl.bsky.social

40-something white lady in double-feather hat smokes and leans over piano played by another woman in foreground

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I’ve been neglecting noir (“noir-glecting”) this winter. That’s gonna change real soon. Getting back in the spirit with a rewatch of this semi-charming swing/miss from 1947

Michael Sharp
PRO
They Won't Believe Me 1947
They Wont Believe Me
Rewatched Feb 5, 2026
Mix one part Double Indemnity and one part Out of the Past, then thin it out with a lot of tap water and throw it all in the dirt and you've got this movie-all the trappings of a proper noir (voiceover, schemer in over his head, Jane Greer, etc.) but starring the guy from "Father Knows Best." Fred MacMurray could play against type (beautifully), Robert Young cannot. He does his best Walter Neff imitation (down to calling Susan Hayward "baby" all the time), but no dice. He doesn't have the heft or the potential menace.
Maybe the dumbest ending of any "noir" I've ever seen. Supposed to be some kind of O. Henry ironic twist. But oh brother, no. Just silly.
(HBO Max, 2/5/26)

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

This movie goes hard. Deceptively quiet and low-key but there’s lots of dark shit under the surface. And that ending—a real twist i somehow did not see coming (in criterion’s “Nordic Noir” collection this month)

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