Don Malcolm was editor in chief of the Noir City e-zine from 2006 to 2014. Shortly after leaving that position, he began a series of film festivals showcasing the lost and overlooked film noirs from France during the 1930s-1960s, entitled The French Had a Name for It, which eventually brought more than 100 films not seen in America for more than half a century to cinephiles in Los Angeles and San Francisco. He is currently completing two books on French film noir: the first, French Noir 101, which uses the recent festivals as a portal into these lost works, will be published in December 2020; the second, entitled The French Had a Name for It, covers the entirety of the "lost continent" and will address revised scenarios for the origin and development of film noir as a whole. It will appear sometime in 2021. 
Expanding and redrawing Ginette Vincendeau’s incomplete map of French film noir * * * Let it be said here first: I come to praise Ginette Vincendeau,1 not to bury her.[…]
Long thought lost, Stevens’ grim exposé of gender roles and sexual psychopathy may be the missing link in noir’s transition to the sixties.
