The film will also be included in an upcoming Troma box set of Collins/Dingeldein collaborations - including the features Mommy, Mommy 2, and Real Time. Proceeds will go to the Mississippi Valley Writers Colony (formerly the Mississippi Valley Writers Conference). The 90-minute feature will have a benefit premiere on Friday at Brew & View, with screenings at 3:30, 7:30, and 9:30 p.m.
While film noir is typically characterized by its shadowy, moody aesthetics, the short pieces of Shades of Noir explore the narrative aspects of the genre more than the visuals, Collins said.
Ness was thrown together to explore the possibilities of a high-definition digital-video camera, while Three Women was the result of a workshop in Des Moines in which the cast and crew had three hours to shoot an entire movie. The backstories of the segments are interesting by themselves. "You could bring it into a college and use it as a class for noir." as a whole piece," said Dingeldein, who works out of his dphilms office in Rock Island and typically serves as director of photography for projects that Collins directs. The movie emphasizes that while film-noir classics are often credited to their directors, they often come from great novels. So he wrote and Dingeldein filmed "wrap around" material to "put each film in the context of being noir," Collins said. "I got to thinking there was something thematic about noir that could be said," said Collins, who lives in Muscatine.
The origins of each piece are different, but Collins and Dingeldein felt they worked well together. The movie is a collection of four works, a documentary about Mickey Spillane and three shorter fiction pieces: the one-man show Ness: An Untouchable Life, A Matter of Principal, and Three Women. "It's a bit of a Frankenstein monster," Collins conceded last week, "but the Frankenstein monster gets its job done. Shades of Noir, the new film by Max Allan Collins and Phil Dingeldein, is a patchwork.
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