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Is Rear Window noir? To me, it’s a thriller. In this field, as in music, you can't put everything in a box.

I looked it up on Wikipedia, they say that noir is a derivation of hard boiled... but I did say that I was generalizing... for the sake of brevity.

Even "Murder on the Sun" is up there with "Murder on the Orient Express." Additionally, many years ago I read "The Witness for the Prosecution," which seemed to me to be one of the best by Christie, but I don’t think they made a film of it.

Cristie wrote whodunits, Highsmith wrote thrillers, Ed McBain wrote police procedurals, Raymond Chandler and James Ellroy, hard-boiled or noir as you prefer, because in my opinion there isn't much difference between the two genres. All of this, generalizing a bit out of necessity, because there are writers like Stephen King who have effectively written horror, thrillers, and stories of friendship. What is certain is that the father of this literature is Edgar Allan Poe.

The "giallo" only exists here; abroad they call them Krimi or thrillers in Germany, whodunits, murder mysteries, or thrillers in England. Giallo derives from the fact that the crime stories published by Mondadori many years ago had a yellow cover. I give it a 5, thus aligning with the rating I wanted to give.

Sure, I know that Christie, as well as Ellery Queen, Nero Wolfe, etc., is famous for her mystery novels, but I don't love them. Highsmith's stories are true crime tales, not brainteasers (with all due respect for this type of film). I wanted to emphasize that Patricia's novels are more suitable for being adapted into films because they have more tension. Hitchcock, who is undoubtedly the king of suspense, never made a mystery story. PS Murder on the Orient Express by Lumet, I rate it on par with this; Witness for the Prosecution by Wilder is better, also because it's unusual compared to Christie's style, plus it features a Laughton who adds value to the film.

That's how I wanted to do it.

All the films based on Agatha Christie’s stories do not go beyond mediocrity. Including this one, which the "queen" of the mystery genre considered the most technically difficult among those she had written. The true queen of the mystery genre was Patricia Highsmith, whose stories were comprehensible and enthralling. This is also evidenced by the fact that directors such as: Alfred Hitchcock, René Clément, Chabrol, Wim Wenders, and Minghella drew from her literature, creating (almost all) classics.

Great album by a great band.

Very harsh review, which I do not agree with, even though for me Vasco is not a musician but at best a good lyricist.