#GRAYSCALE was almost doomed.
By which I mean the first name to leap to mind for this website was, quite literally, "Doomed." The name felt appropriately thematic, all things considered. This blog is meant to serve as a place for my wife and I to talk about the movies featured in TCM's free multimedia online course, "Into the Darkness: Investigating Film Noir." The program runs from June 1 until Aug. 4 this year, after which this website will probably reach its tragic conclusion.
But then again, it might not. The first film in the series that we watched together, DARK PASSAGE, had an uncharacteristically happy ending. We'll be talking about that film soon enough, but its resolution gave me pause on branding such as dour moniker on this website. After all, it's not like the two of us are going to stop watching movies when "Into the Darkness" ends.
The film course runs concurrently with the TCM's "Summer of Darkness” series, which airs 24 hours of films noir every Friday in June and July. #Grayscale has one minor handicap, though ... we don't have access to TCM.
Luckily, the film course is structured in a way that allows us plan ahead. Home video and streaming media will fill in a lot of the holes, but we're likely to miss a few movies here and there.
(And don't forget to visit my regular gig, The Collinsport Historical Society. It's got vampires!)
— Wallace McBride
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