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IMOGEN SARA SMITH (Advisory Council) writes for Film Comment, the Criterion Collection, Sight & Sound, the Film Noir Foundation's NOIR CITY e-magazine, and many other publications. She is the author of In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City , and a frequent speaker and commentator on all things noir.
In a Lonely Place. 1950 USA. My favorite American film noir, In a Lonely Place lacks many of the genre elements people expect from noir: there are no guns, no gangsters, no femmes fatales, no private eyes, no dark alleys. Instead, there is a scalpel-fine, devastating anatomy of a last-chance love affair; a career-best performance by Bogart that ...
Imogen Sara Smith is a film critic and historian based in New York City. She is the author of two books, In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City and Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy, and her work has appeared in Film Comment, Sight & Sound, Cineaste, Reverse Shot, The Criterion Collection, and many other venues.
04:57. Spotlight on OBSESSION with Imogen Sara Smith. 1:38:10. Obsession. In the following introduction recorded in 2021, critic Imogen Sara Smith champions a hidden gem from blacklisted director Edward Dmytryk, who deftly balances suspense and black comedy in this British thriller.
In a Lonely Place: An Epitaph for Love an essay by Imogen Sara Smith at the Criterion Collection In a Lonely Place essay by Daniel Eagan in America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry, A&C Black, 2010 ISBN 0826429777 , pages 435-436
Mar 25, 2022 · By Imogen Sara Smith. Features —. Mar 25, 2022. A man with no memory searches for his past, blundering through a dark labyrinth that is the city of Los Angeles. The film is Somewhere in the Night (1946), and the man, George Taylor (John Hodiak), has had his identity wiped clean by an exploding shell in the South Pacific.
The following interview with critic Imogen Sara Smith was recorded in 2020. Skip to main content Classics and discoveries from around the world, thematically programmed with special features, on a streaming service brought to you by the Criterion Collection.
