8 episodes
Mean Streets - The Film Noir Podcast Luke Deckard and Matthew Booth
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- TV & Film
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4.7 • 6 Ratings
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An unmissable weekly show where authors Dr Luke Deckard & Matthew Booth walk the mean cinematic streets of the best, worst, and forgotten movies of film noir...from the 1930s to today!
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Case #7. THE NICE GUYS (2016)
This week, your cinematic sleuths are investigating Shane Black's 2016 neo-noir romp THE NICE GUYS starring Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Angourie Rice, and Kim Basinger
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ApplePodcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mean-streets-the-film-noir-podcast/id1733189837
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/09PWpPUsYrrsAbMELCzgqx?si=9fa8004ae64d4ebd
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0mMUeJThoZk6mj0T2-BAEA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MeanStreetsPCFacebook:https://www.facebook.com/groups/992972335515689
MEAN STREETS is produced by Luke Deckard and Matthew Booth
Music by Luke Deckard
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Case #6. MANHUNTER (1986)
This week, your cinematic sleuths are investigating Michael Mann's MANHUNTER (1986), starring William Petersen, Brian Cox, Joan Allan and Dennis Farina.
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ApplePodcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mean-streets-the-film-noir-podcast/id1733189837
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/09PWpPUsYrrsAbMELCzgqx?si=9fa8004ae64d4ebd
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0mMUeJThoZk6mj0T2-BAEA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MeanStreetsPCFacebook:https://www.facebook.com/groups/992972335515689
MEAN STREETS is produced by Luke Deckard and Matthew Booth
Music by Luke Deckard
Edited by Luke Deckard -
Case #5. THE BATMAN (2022)
This week, your cinematic sleuths are investigating Matt Reeves's THE BATMAN (2022), starring Robert Pattinson, Zoe Kravitz, Jeffery Wright, and Paul Dano.
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ApplePodcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mean-streets-the-film-noir-podcast/id1733189837
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/09PWpPUsYrrsAbMELCzgqx?si=9fa8004ae64d4ebd
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0mMUeJThoZk6mj0T2-BAEA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MeanStreetsPCFacebook:https://www.facebook.com/groups/992972335515689
MEAN STREETS is produced by Luke Deckard and Matthew Booth
Music by Luke Deckard
Edited by Luke Deckard -
Case #4. V I WARSHAWSKI (1991)
Your cinematic sleuths are back at it! This week's case is none other than V I Warshawski (1991).
Directed by Jeff KanewKathleen Turner as "V.I." Warshawski
Based on the novel: Deadlock by Sara Paretsky
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ApplePodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mean-streets-the-film-noir-podcast/id1733189837
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0mMUeJThoZk6mj0T2-BAEA
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Case #3: WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (1988)
Today, your cinematic sleuths are back at it! Today’s case is none other than WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT from 1988, starring Bob Hoskins, Charles Fleischer, Christopher Lloyd, and Joanna Cassidy…
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Produced by Steven Speilberg
Find out how Who Framed Roger Rabbit became THE film that saved Disney's animation arm and reinvigorated animation films.
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ApplePodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mean-streets-the-film-noir-podcast/id1733189837
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0mMUeJThoZk6mj0T2-BAEA
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Case #2. L. A. CONFIDENTIAL (1997)
This week, Luke and Matthew discuss Curtis Hanson's 1997 adaptation of L. A. Confidential, which stars Russel Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey, and Kim Basinger.
From studio worries to controversial casting, we cover it all.
FIND US HERE:
ApplePodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mean-streets-the-film-noir-podcast/id1733189837
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0mMUeJThoZk6mj0T2-BAEA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MeanStreetsPC
Customer Reviews
Great Noir cast
Fun podcast breaking down the depths of Noir.
Off To A Good Start
Very pleased to find this podcast and to discover the premiere episode covers my favorite movie, The Big Sleep. As much as I would like to quibble with some of the drawbacks the hosts point out with the film, I really can't. They're all fair. I also like that the hosts have obviously read and reference the source novel which a lot of people don't and I think the comparisons they make between the book's strengths and weaknesses and the film's and where the two diverge are pretty spot on.
I am not sure that they have the all details quite right in terms of the context in which various production decisions were made, and I think some of their observations are filtered a little heavily through modern sensibilities in terms of how the comedic and romantic banter (or parlor sing-alongs...!) play today vs. in the 40's, but then again none of us were there so who knows? I appreciate that there are younger people looking this far back and enjoying movies that most people aren't able to relate to anymore.
I would say the only real question that I would like to have seen addressed is "is The Big Sleep actually noir?" Perhaps in the '45 cut? I think the concessions made to Hollywood tropes and trying to make this a follow-on star-making vehicle for Lauren Bacall pretty clearly taken it out of the noir camp and into more of a hard boiled romance? I love it for that. I just think the argument can be made that it lacks the pathos and perhaps some of the cinematographic style of noir...