https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-3unxj-191ff00 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 … Continue reading →| Tipping My Fedora
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-awmqw-198d66e To celebrate the first anniversary of the Tipping My Fedora podcast, Sergio is joined by Professor Stacey Abbott to explore the wonders of the John Wick film series starring Keanu Reeves. Please note, we pretty much spoil the endings … Continue reading →| Tipping My Fedora
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-qnwnu-191fd55 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 … Continue reading →| Tipping My Fedora
https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-qnwnu-191fd55 The Fedora podcast is celebrating its first anniversary 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 … Continue reading →| Tipping My Fedora
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-batgu-191f944 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 … Continue reading →| Tipping My Fedora
https://Tippingmyfedora.podbean.com/e/32-film-noir-fest-2025-with-james-harrison/ 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 … Continue reading →| Tipping My Fedora
https://Tippingmyfedora.podbean.com/e/29-high-and-low-1963-with-aidan-brick 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 … Continue reading →| Tipping My Fedora
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vgxxw-17d9241 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, … Continue reading →| Tipping My Fedora
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4674u-17d90fe 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 … Continue reading →| Tipping My Fedora
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yqr3z-181c2a1 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 … Continue reading →| Tipping My Fedora
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gpm7y-1816d8b 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 … Continue reading →| Tipping My Fedora
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-imi4e-17d8e24 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 … Continue reading →| Tipping My Fedora
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7tzm4-17ee2f7 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 … Continue reading →| Tipping My Fedora
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3mrcp-17c2eb4 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 … Continue reading →| Tipping My Fedora
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ugch3-1808d68 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 … Continue reading →| Tipping My Fedora
https://Tippingmyfedora.podbean.com/e/dr-mabuse-with-david-kalat 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 … Continue reading →| Tipping My Fedora
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-w6ews-1821187 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 … Continue reading →| Tipping My Fedora
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…| Tipping My Fedora
