Daniel and Corky take a long drive into the past to review Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer and Kirk Douglas in Jacques Tourneur’s Out of the Past. The epitome of film noir, Out of the Past is everything your mind conjures when you think about the genre – the shadowy black-and-white photography, the doomed male and femme fatale archetypes, the bleakness and fatalism. But did your hosts Canon-ize the criminally underrated Tourneur, or did they find it Slight against all odds?
Sight & Sound 2022 Critics Poll Ranking: #157 [tied]
World premiere: Nov. 25, 1947
IMDB synopsis: “A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses, and duplicitous dames.”
Original theatrical trailer for Out of the Past
L’Atalante (1934; Dir.: Jean Vigo)
IMDB synopsis: “Newly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L’atalante along with the captain’s first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy.”
Our review of L’Atalante comes out Tuesday, June 9!
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