Monthly Archives: April 2021

When asked to find comps, I say Sara Gran’s Claire DeWitt series has a certain hipster noir, snarky edge that relates to our style, especially The Infinite Blacktop and The Bohemian Highway. It’s the eccentric characters living on the edges of society, Oakland and California, the black humor, and the bursts of philosophy (or isContinue reading “The Infinite Blacktop”

Hipster noir might just be our genre. The 2019 film, The Burnt Orange Heresy, based on the 1971 novel by Charles Willeford, shows the esoteric edges of a ruthless art world. Neo-Noir or Hipster Noir — our kind of stuff. Bonus, Mick Jagger plays a collector offering a Faustian bargain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PMAlfrdQNI