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Sergio Angelini

The podcast devoted to crime, mystery and all things Noir

tv & film film history

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34. Hitchcock Noir: SPELLBOUND (1945), NOTORIOUS...

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2025/11/02

Brad Friedman is back to talk about Hitchcock's 1940s Noir thrillers with Sergio! This time they discuss the romantic whodunit, SPELLBOUND (1945), the spy drama NOTORIOUS (1946) and the real-time suspense thriller, ROPE (1948).Brad blogs about Golden Age mystery books and movies at Ah Sweet Mystery: https://ahsweetmystery.com/ To read "The House of Dr Edwardes" by Francis Beeding, the basis for SPELLBOUND, click here:

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33. WOMEN OF TWILIGHT (1952), with Jonathan Rigby

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2025/10/19

Special guest Jonathan Rigby joins Sergio to discuss WOMEN OF TWILIGHT (1952), the film adaptation of Sylvia Rayman's 1951 groundbreaking all-female play.Jonathan Rigby has been writing about films for over 30 years now - and has been an actor for even longer. He is the author of several books on horror cinema, including English Gothic, American Gothic and Euro Gothic - with American Gothic 2 on the way – and Studies in Terror, and has also written biographies of Christopher Lee and Roxy Music. He

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31. JOHN WICK, with Stacey Abbott

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2025/10/04

The Fedora podcast is one year old today. And it's also my birthday! To celebrate, my awesome buddy Professor Stacey Abbott (who also just had her birthday) makes a very welcome return visit to Fedora. This time we get together to celebrate the John Wick series starring the mighty Keanu Reeves.Please note, we pretty much spoil every single one of the films. My very special guest is Stacey Abbott, Professor of Film at Northumbria University, where she is a member of their Horror Studies Research

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30. BASIC INSTINCT (1992), with Rebecca McCallum

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2025/09/21

Today we launch headlong into the erotic thriller genre with a very deep dive into the 1992 box office smash, Basic Instinct. Starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone, written by Joe Eszterhas and directed by Paul Verhoeven, this gaudy and controversial Neo Noir has many strong links to Hitchcock's Vertigo. To discuss this film and more, Sergio is joined by very special guest, Rebecca McCallum.N.B. The podcast, recorded in February 2025, includes huge spoilers - and gives away the ending to Basic

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29. Film Noir Fest 2025, with James Harrison

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2025/09/07

James Harrison of Film Noir UK joins Sergio to preview the 2025 Film Noir Fest, which is taking place from 31 October to 2 November at the Plaza Cinema in Weston-Super-Mare. This year's theme is heist movies and highlights include screenings of: Kubrick's KILLER'S KISS (1955) and THE KILLING (1956), Huston's THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950), Siodmak's CRISS CROSS (1949), Dassin's RIFIFI (1955) and Tarantino's RESERVOIR DOGS (1992). There is also a retrospective dedicated to crime films starring Ida

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28. HIGH AND LOW (1963), with Aidan Brack

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2025/08/24

Sergio is joined by blogger Aidan Brack, of Mysteries Ahoy, for an in-depth look at Akira Kurosawa's classic 1963 suspense thriller, High and Low. This seems like the perfect time to look back at the film with the release of Spike Lee's remake, Highest 2 Lowest, starring Denzel Washington.Adapted from King's Ransom - the tenth volume in Ed McBain's series of police procedurals featuring the cops of the 87th Precinct - Sergio and Aidan look at the original book, its 1962 American TV adaptation and

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27. Film Noir scepticism (part 2), with Sheldon Hall

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2025/08/10

Following on from the first part last week, Sergio and Sheldon Hall reunite for a second bout of Film Noir scepticism. How well does Sergio stand up to Sheldon's stinging and relentless criticism?The genres being considered include Westerns, Horror, Science Fiction and the work of Alfred Hitchcock. To listen to the first part of the podcast, visit: Apple buff.ly/wDl4xnB Spotify buff.ly/34bRrLu YouTube buff.ly/QyLHaCo The titles being considered, in chronological order, include: THE SEVENTH

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26. Film Noir scepticism (part 1), with Sheldon Hall

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2025/08/03

At the beginning of every podcast, Sergio asks his guests to give their definition of Film Noir, a notoriously difficult assignment. This week, in the first of a two-part episode, Dr Sheldon Hall, long-time friend to Sergio and the podcast, picks holes in the host's own attempts to define the term. They consider two genres, screwball comedy and the gangster movie, and look to see how well they overlap with Film Noir, along with the 1931 version version of The Maltese Falcon, starring Ricardo Cortez

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25. WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (1988), with Simon Brown

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2025/07/20

The 1988 live action and animation hybrid, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, can certainly lay claim to being the most unusual Film Noir yet featured on Tipping My Fedora. A 1940s murder mystery set in a parallel universe in which humans and cartoons co-exist, it was a huge gamble for the studio and its director, Robert Zemeckis, hot off the success of the first Back to the Future movie. The gamble paid off however, both critically and at the box office, but how well does its technical wizardry stand up

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24. David Shire's Noir Film Music (1974-76), with...

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2025/07/03

The great film composer and songwriter David Shire turns 88 today. To celebrate, I am joined by film music historian John Leman Riley to look at some of Shire's classic 1970s Neo-Noir music scores, including:THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE (Sargent, 1974) THE CONVERSATION (Coppola, 1974) FAREWELL, MY LOVELY (Richards, 1975) ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (Pakula, 1976) For more information about the life and work of David Shire, please visit his homepage at: http://davidshiremusic.com/ John Leman

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23. Neo-Noir Film Music, with John Leman Riley

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2025/06/22

Film and music historian John Leman Riley is back and joins me for a discussion of some of the great Neo-Noir scores composed by Ennio Morricone, Michael Small and Jerry Goldsmith.In this episode we focus on four great films and their soundtracks: THE SICILIAN CLAN (Verneuil, 1969) - music by Ennio Morricone THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE (Argento, 1970) - music by Ennio Morricone KLUTE (Pakula, 1971) - music by Michael Small CHINATOWN (Polanski, 1974) - music by Jerry Goldsmith John’s career

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22. Hitchcock Noir: REBECCA (1940) and SHADOW OF A...

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2025/06/08

Sergio is joined today by podcast buddy Brad Friedman to discuss two of Alfred Hitchcock's first engagements with American Film Noir: the Gothic romance Rebecca (1940) and the dark small-town psycho-thriller, Shadow of a Doubt (1943). Brad blogs about Golden Age mystery books and movies at Ah Sweet Mystery: https://ahsweetmystery.com/ Spoiler alert: the plots for both these films, including their respective endings, are explored in great detail.

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21. Noir Boxing Movies, with Steve Hunt

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2025/05/25

Boxing features in more Hollywood movies than any other sport - and this was certainly true in the era of classic Film Noir. Where does this fascination come from - and how have Noir boxing movies rung the changes over the decades?Sergio is joined by Steve Hunt, host of the superb Boxing Movie Podcast and author of the new book, Heavyweight Title Fights of the 1980s: A Complete History. Together they look at five of Steve's favourite noir boxing films. KID GALAHAD (Curtiz, 1937) THE SET-UP (Wise,

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20. Radio Noir: MR ARKADIN (1955)

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2025/05/11

Will the real "Mr Arkadin" please stand up?For the podcast's first foray into audio noir, we tip our hat to Orson Welles - whose birthday it was this past week - and look at the strange case of his noir maudit, MR ARKADIN. Also released as CONFIDENTIAL REPORT, we will consider the many iterations of the film (following in the path of Jonathan Rosenbaum's seminal essay, The Seven Arkadins, first published in Film Comment magazine in 1992). Incredibly, the various versions - including radio dramas

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19. SEVEN (1995), with Dr Laura Mee

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2025/04/27

David Fincher's seminal neo-noir thriller SEVEN is now thirty years old. A surprise commercial success and critical hit, this dark, powerful, densely-layered and genuinely scary and challenging thriller proved to be a hugely influential Neo-noir.And then, there was that box ... To celebrate, Sergio is joined by Dr Laura Mee, Principal Lecturer in Film and Television at the University of Hertfordshire. She primarily researches horror cinema and adaptation and is the author of two books: Reanimated:

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18. Mabuse Lives! with David Kalat

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2025/03/26

Before such monstrous miscreants as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, The Joker, Hannibal Lecter and Bellatrix Lestrange besmirched page and screen, perhaps the greatest supervillain of them all was Dr Mabuse. Hell-bent on world domination, his devilish plans were chronicled in books and movies throughout most of the 20th century. And now he's back in a brand new box set bringing together his six dastardly movie appearance from the 1960s, courtesy of Eureka video in their Masters of Cinema

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Spring break

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2025/03/09

Our offices will be closed during the Easter period so we can take a small holiday and recharge the little grey cells. But we won't be gone for long and we have lots of special episodes all lined up and ready to go. To whet your appetite, here are previews from some forthcoming episodes including ones dedicated to boxing movies, Westerns and Noir scepticism, the various versions of BLADE RUNNER (and its sequel, BLADE RUNNER 2049), the radio origins of Orson Welles' MR ARKADIN ... and much

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16. The Noir books of Jim Thompson, with Jim Noy

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2025/02/23

Sergio is joined by novelist, blogger and podcaster Jim Noy to enthuse about the work of writer Jim Thompson, the sui generis maestro of 50s and 60's Noir. We explore some of Thompson's major themes, his often psychopathic protagonists and his horrifying and frequently surreal endings - and look in detail at such classic books as The Killers Inside Me, A Hell of a Woman, The Grifters, After Dark, My Sweet and Pop. 1280 (all of which have been filmed)Jim Thompson's crime fiction bibliography

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15. DEATH WISH II (1982) and DEATH WISH III (1985),...

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2025/02/09

Welcome back for the second half of Sergio's conversation with Simon Brown about the Michael Winner / Charles Bronson Death Wish trilogy - today's focus is on the first two sequels, produced by Cannon in the 1980s.We look at what the sequels added to, and detracted from, this popular cycle of revenge films extending the success of the first and most distinguished entry in the series. The first part of this podcast can be found at this link:

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14. DEATH WISH (1974), with Simon Brown

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2025/02/02

Sergio is joined today by Simon Brown for the first of a two-part look at the trio of Death Wish films that were directed by Michael Winner and starred Charles Bronson. One of the key releases of the 1970s, Michael Winner’s 1974 box office smash, Death Wish, starred Charles Bronson as a man driven to murderous reprisals after a violent assault that left his wife dead and their daughter an emotional wreck. Adapted from the 1972 novel by Brian Garfield, it crystallised an emerging trend of films

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