Y’all this month was Noirvember 11!! I cannot even believe I’ve been doing this for that long. Every year more and more people (and libraries!) participate and it fills me with such joy (which is maybe the opposite of what noir should do???). I didn’t watch much this month beyond the one noir a day, but as always you can see everything I watched after the cut, plus a breakdown by decade and a few favorites.

1. Blind Alley
2. Beware, My Lovely
3. Croupier
4. The Sleeping City
5. New York Confidential
6. The Desperate Hours
7. Slightly Scarlet
8. The Killer That Stalked New York
9. The Hot Spot
10. City of Fear
11. Night Editor
12. The Dark Past
13. La vita davanti a sé (The Life Ahead)
14. Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
15. Monsoon (2020)
16. Motherless Brooklyn
17. The Big Steal
18. The Night Holds Terror
19. Fourteen Hours
20. Døden er et kjærtegn (Death is a Caress)
21. Street of Chance
22. Loophole
23. Night Moves (1975)
24. Strange Impersonation
25. Abandoned
26. Quicksand
27. The Big Night
28. Hillbilly Elegy
29. Ladies In Retirement
30. Take One False Step
31. Commuters
32. A Kiss Before Dying (1956)
33. Manhandled
34. M (1951)

1880s: 0
1890s: 0
1900s: 0
1910s: 0
1920s: 0
1930s: 1
1940s: 10
1950s: 14
1960s: 0
1970s: 2
1980s: 0
1990s: 2
2000s: 1
2010s: 1
2020s: 3

Beware, My Lovely, 1952 (dir. Harry Horner)

Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead, 2007 (dir. Sidney Lumet)

Motherless Brooklyn, 2019 (dir. Edward Norton)

Monsoon, 2020 (dir. Hong Khaou)

M, 1951 (dir. Josephy Losey)

So that was Noirvember – again my 11th!! – and what a Noirvember it was. I’m hoping this month I’ll catch up on a bunch of 2020 films I let slip, but who knows!