Another Kind Of Distance: A Time Travel, Twin Peaks, Film, Doom Patrol And Nostalgia Podcast

For our Noirvember episode, we look at four Anthony Mann noirs, Railroaded! (1947), T-Men (1947), Raw Deal (1948), and Side Street (1950). We follow Mann as he ascends from Poverty Row to a collaboration with one of film noir's most distinctive cinematographers, John Alton, to the big-time at MGM, with his protagonists only getting more sweaty and desperate and his underworld brutes remaining just as psychotic. We discuss the scapegoating structure of Mann's noirs, their nihilism, their murder-mirror reflection of the capitalist’s bottom line and their emphasis on pain - relieved only, in the poetic realism-reminiscent Raw Deal, by some fatalistic romanticism that's nevertheless offset by relentless masochism.  Time Codes: 0h 01m 00s:                            RAILROADED! (1947) [dir. Anthony Mann] 0h 15m 36s:                            T-MEN (1947) [dir. Anthony Mann] 0h 31m 01s:                            RAW DEAL (1948) [dir. Anthony Mann] 0h 46m 18s:                            SIDE STREET (1950) [dir. An