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A list of 26 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Laura (1944), Call Northside 777 (1948), Panic in the Streets (1950), House of Bamboo (1955) and The Street with No Name (1948). About this list: Between 2005 and 2008, 20th Century Fox released 26 films on DVD under the "Fox Film Noir" banner.
A covert FBI agent infiltrates a ruthless gangster mob, but his life is at risk from a mysterious informant who funnels inside information to the hoodlums. Director: William Keighley | Stars: Mark Stevens, Richard Widmark, Lloyd Nolan, Barbara Lawrence.
Nov 15, 2019 · Between 2005-2008, 20th Century Fox released over two dozen film noir classics from their vaults to DVD, complete with restored picture and video, new and archival special features, and...
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Nov 27, 2021 · Adapted from Vera Caspary’s 1943 novel, the film is often noted (and lauded) for David Raksin’s evocative and eerie theme but, with an enviably sharp script and a pitch perfect cast, it’s a film noir that lands squarely at the top of its class.
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In the cutthroat world of the newsroom, what goes on behind the scenes is often as juicy as the headlines splashed across the front page—at least if these ink-stained classics are to be believed. Pressure-cooker deadlines, muckraking, whistle-blowing, backstabbing, libel, ethical dilemmas, and the desperate, unscrupulous lengths some reporters will go to get a story—it’s all part of the industry that makes the news cycle go round. From snappy pre-Code template-setters (Five Star Final, Blesse...
Directed by Elia Kazan
An artist forged on the cutting edge of New York City’s pioneering Group Theatre, director Elia Kazan was instrumental in bringing the modern Method style of acting—and by extension an intensely heightened emotional and psychological realism—to Hollywood cinema. Never one to shy away from controversy, he broke new ground in the depiction of anti-Semitism (Gentleman’s Agreement), racism (Pinky), class struggle (On the Waterfront), sexuality (Baby Doll), and media manipulation (A Face in the Cr...
The brilliant work, personal struggles, and cultural impact of American writers Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams explode onto the screen in this innovative dual-portrait documentary. Filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland masterfully collages a wealth of archival material, including dishy talk-show appearances with Dick Cavett and David Frost, with ...
Darkness lurks behind the bright lights of a traveling carnival in one of the most haunting and perverse film noirs of the 1940s—a downward slide into existential oblivion. SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Audio commentary featuring film historians James Ursini and Alain Silver; interviews with actor Coleen Gray, critic Imogen Sara Smith, and performer and h...
With her Academy Award–nominated documentary Time, Garrett Bradley confirmed her place among the most original and poetic voices working in the realm of nonfiction today. Her richly sensorial visual style and incisive blending of the personal and the political are on display in these remarkable short works, which include an inside look at the socia...
The documentary feature debut from RaMell Ross is an at once intimate and expansive, poignant and profound vision of the African American experience in the heart of Alabama’s Black Belt. The motion-picture screen becomes the artist’s canvas in this mesmerizing and innovative collaboration between Pablo Picasso and Henri-Georges Clouzot, one of the ...
With his latest film, the Cannes prizewinner Drive My Car, currently garnering acclaim, Ryusuke Hamaguchi is fast emerging as one of contemporary Japanese cinema’s most vital and original voices. His international breakthrough, Happy Hour, is a sprawling, absorbingly novelistic portrait of the intersecting lives of four female friends navigating th...
A class election in Wuhan becomes a fascinating microcosm of modern democratic politics in Weijun Chen’s fascinating, witty, and insightful documentary. The lovingly hand-drawn animation of Michael Sporn graces these charming children’s tales about a lonely confectionary pig and an interracial friendship in early-twentieth-century Harlem. Abbott an...
Five of contemporary cinema’s most adventurous filmmakers adapt each other’s dreams (and nightmares) in an audacious, deliriously surreal journey into the furthest realms of the subconscious mind. Two giants of the American avant-garde speak through the language of the subconscious in a pair of surrealist masterpieces set in the shadow of the Holly...
Jennifer Jason Leigh shows off her incredible range and inimitable performance style in a glittering Jazz Age ensemble piece and an incisive family portrait, both laced with biting wit. Sexual and psychological tensions simmer in two scorching, star-studded films based on the work of boundary-pushing playwright Tennessee Williams. The one and only ...
Films in the 20th Century “Fox Film Noir” Series. Film title. Search. Discovering films on Blu-ray and DVD. 20th Century Fox Film Noir Series.
