Watching: Neo-noir.

All downer endings, all the time.

Over at Substack yesterday, I wrote a bit about the first two movies in the Criterion Channel’s neo-noir series: Cotton Comes to Harlem and Across 110th Street.

We, obviously, watched them via that service, but they’re also available to rent via Amazon, and possibly elsewhere:

  • Cotton Comes to Harlem

  • Across 110th Street

  • Also available! The Chester Himes book—which is part of a larger series—that inspired Cotton Comes to Harlem. (I just got the first one—For Love of Imabelle, later re-titled A Rage in Harlem—via interlibrary loan, but happily, they all look to be extremely available.)

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