MOVIES: '36 Quai des Orfevres', 'Adaptation', 'Aliens', 'Amores Perros', 'Angel Heart', 'Audition', 'Battle Royale', 'The Beat That My Heart Skipped', 'Best Laid Plans', 'Betty Blue', 'The Big Lebowksi', 'Birdy', 'Blood Simple', 'Blue Velvet', 'Branded To Kill', 'Cache (Hidden)', 'Calvaire (The Ordeal)', 'Cape Fear', 'Chinatown', 'City Of God', 'A Clockwork Orange', 'The Cooler', 'Crash', 'Cube', 'Dead Man's Shoes', 'The Departed', 'Donnie Darko', 'Double Indemnity', 'Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind', 'Event Horizon', 'Fargo', 'Fight Club', 'From Dusk Till Dawn', 'Funny Games', 'Gangster No.1', 'Get Carter', 'Hana-bi', 'Intacto', 'Jackie Brown', 'Jacob's Ladder', 'Kalifornia', 'Killing Zoe', 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang', 'L.A. Confidential', 'The Last Boy Scout', 'The Long Kiss Goodnight', 'Lost Highway', 'The Man Who Wasn't There', 'Matchstick Men', 'The Matrix', 'Memento', 'Miller's Crossing', 'Mr In-Between', 'Mulholland Drive', 'Naked', 'Natural Born Killers', 'The Night Of The Hunter', 'Nil By Mouth', 'Old Boy', 'Open Range', 'Out Of Sight', 'The Phantom Of Libery', 'Pitch Black', 'Point Blank', 'Pulp Fiction', 'Red Rock West', 'Reservoir Dogs', 'Rififi', 'Seven', 'Sin City', 'Strange Days', 'Sweet Sixteen', 'Sympathy for Mr Vengeance', 'Talk To Her', 'Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead', 'This World, Then The Fireworks', 'Training Day', 'True Romance', 'The Usual Suspects', 'The Way Of The Gun', 'Wild At Heart', 'Wrong Turn', 'Y Tu Mama Tambien'
TV: Six Feet Under, The Wire, The Sopranos, The Shield, Deadwood
Thank God Guthrie's here. We need a sober Scot in order to deal with all of the riffraff. Oh....uhhhh... wait... those names are all on Al's client list...
Thinking's not good for me, you know.... Right, well, I reckon that transgressive fiction often isn't noir (Lolita, Trainspotting, Footsucker, etc) but noir is often transgressive.
Allan - how's tricks? Cheers for the invite, much obliged. A strange thing - you have the same name as this shit-hot Scottish writer Ken Bruen keeps raving about ... you'd want to be careful, yon other Allan G might sue. And I hear he's a bit of a hard case. So be careful out there. Meanwhile, if you fancy doing a Q&A for Crime Always Pays, a (mostly) Irish crime fiction site, drop me a line ... hell, we're all a bunch of Celts anyway, right? Cheers, Dec
Thanks for the invite. Great to meet you in Harrogate and many congratulations on your brilliant win. I'll tell my friend Mr Thomas to give you a sparkling write-up in the Sunday Telegraph ... Tho' I can't guarantee that he will. Like most hacks, he's a nasty, embittered individual, seething with resentment at the way others succeed where he has failed. To be honest, I try to avoid him as much as I can, but it's hard sometimes to escape him ...
I just finished 'HARD MAN' and had to ungrip my fingers from the front and back covers as if they were seared to it. It was such a tremendous read. Dark, funny, surprising, unsettling -- and above all it orbits truth, which is probably the biggest compliment I can give. Thanks for writing it, and congrats on your most recent accolades.
Aye aye, thanks for the invite. Glad we're now officially friends (what the hell were we before?). Just noticed from your film list that 'The Phantom of Liberty' is on there. Brilliant film. Thought I was the only one who'd ever seen it.
Allan,
I'm giving talks locally on mystery sub-genres, and I'm looking for a current noir writer to give me a two or three sentence quote about why you think people enjoy the sub-genre. I haven't read your book but I will try to do so in order to speak intelligently about your work.
(If you need a connection, my novel takes place in Scotland, only it's back a thousand years or so.)
Nice job in HELL OF A WOMAN. I appreciate all of the contributions from you here and on RARA AVIS. I'm definitely going to acquire more of your writings.
Loved the SAVAGE NIGHT video. Must have been cold out. I was sitting here with the laptop on the back patio and its about 78 F right now here in Southern CA.
Daniel Hatadi
Mar 27, 2007
Allan Guthrie
Mar 27, 2007
Daniel Hatadi
Mar 27, 2007
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Mar 27, 2007
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Mar 27, 2007
Dave White
Mar 27, 2007
Allan Guthrie
Mar 27, 2007
Donna Moore
Mar 27, 2007
Allan Guthrie
Mar 27, 2007
Allan Guthrie
Mar 27, 2007
Russel McLean
Mar 27, 2007
Allan Guthrie
Mar 27, 2007
Robert Gregory Browne
Mar 27, 2007
J.D. Rhoades
Dude.
Mar 27, 2007
Brian Thornton
Mar 27, 2007
Duane Swierczynski
Mar 27, 2007
Tiffany Leigh
Mar 27, 2007
Allan Guthrie
Mar 27, 2007
Allan Guthrie
Mar 27, 2007
Pat Mullan
Haven't seen you since LCC in Bristol and I simply want to say that I LOVED 'Two-Way Split' !
Slan, Pat.
Mar 28, 2007
Mary Reagan
Mar 28, 2007
Allan Guthrie
Mar 30, 2007
Dick Lochte
Mar 30, 2007
Allan Guthrie
Mar 30, 2007
Paul Guyot
AG, apparently you're avoiding writing just like the rest of us. Welcome.
Mar 31, 2007
Charlie Williams
Apr 3, 2007
Allan Guthrie
Apr 3, 2007
Charlie Williams
Apr 3, 2007
Jon Jordan
I can't sleep.
Jennifer spelling your name wrong is keeping me up
Apr 5, 2007
Allan Guthrie
Apr 5, 2007
Tony Black
Apr 28, 2007
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Declan Burke
Jul 12, 2007
Patricia
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Steven Torres
Jul 20, 2007
Otis Twelve
Jul 21, 2007
Daniel Hatadi
Jul 23, 2007
Tom Cain
Jul 23, 2007
Allan Guthrie
Jul 24, 2007
Harry Shannon
Jul 29, 2007
Tiffany Leigh
Aug 5, 2007
carole gill
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Martyn Waites
Aug 28, 2007
Peg Herring
I'm giving talks locally on mystery sub-genres, and I'm looking for a current noir writer to give me a two or three sentence quote about why you think people enjoy the sub-genre. I haven't read your book but I will try to do so in order to speak intelligently about your work.
(If you need a connection, my novel takes place in Scotland, only it's back a thousand years or so.)
Sep 1, 2007
Peg Herring
The comment is perfect. Thanks so much.
Peg
Sep 5, 2007
Bruce Grossman
Sep 24, 2007
Juri Nummelin
Nov 28, 2007
terry bowman
Nice job in HELL OF A WOMAN. I appreciate all of the contributions from you here and on RARA AVIS. I'm definitely going to acquire more of your writings.
Feb 29, 2008
MysteryDawg
Aldo
Mar 31, 2008