John Garfield News

Film noir fans, your time has come. Starting this weekend, the Noir City Film Festival unveils 10 days of sex, suspense, blackmail and murder.

This is a guest post by Michael Ravnitzky, with titles suggested by Katherine Brosnan.

Boxing movies are like movies in general: Some are very, very good -- Raging Bull, Rocky, The Set-Up , the original Body and Soul and some are very, very bad Honeyboy, Goldie and the Boxer and the no-semblance-to-the-1947-classic remake of Body and Soul, starring the clueless Leon Isaac Kennedy in place of the great John Garfield.

The low-simmering German potboiler Jerichow is a reworking of James M. Cain's oft-filmed The Postman Always Rings Twice , and that's obvious from the start: There's a wandering rogue , his clueless employer , his smokin' wife , sweaty adultery and a murder scheme.

The low-simmering German potboiler Jerichow is a reworking of James M. Cain's oft-filmed The Postman Always Rings Twice , and that's obvious from the start: There's a wandering rogue , his clueless employer , his smokin' wife , sweaty adultery and a murder scheme.

German film 'Jerichow" subtly reworks "The Postman Always Rings Twice." Writer-director Christian Petzold takes the premise of the James M. Cain novel and deglamorizes it, giving the three main characters equal stature and making the sex and romance aspect less fraught and subjective.