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Classic film noir movies from the 1940s and 50s that are freely available on YouTube. Many film noir playlists on YouTube include movies that are actually no...
Sep 19, 2017 · The Academy gave Krasker an Oscar and Krasker thanked Reed. The Third Man is the best film noir export, set in Vienna and made by the UK. Steven Soderbergh cheekily stated, “One of the amazing ...
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Jul 1, 2022 · The film’s final court scene is an absolute pleasure to watch in terms of writing and stellar performances of Tapsee Pannu, Rishi Kapoor and even Ashutosh Rana. For once, shed all the prejudice, bigotry and any quasi-religious outlook that may be holding you back, and watch the film. Read More: Best R-Rated Movies of 2018. 5. Badhaai Ho
- Ride The Pink Horse
- They Live by Night
- Gun Crazy
- Thieves’ Highway
- Detour
- Nightmare Alley
- The Asphalt Jungle
- Murder, My Sweet
- The Killing
- The Lady from Shanghai
Film noir movies are often associated with urban spaces like New York and L.A. But many classic noir films are set in rural and small-town spaces. Case in point, Robert Montgomery’s nuanced noir unfolds in the New Mexico border town of San Pablo. Montgomery was a popular actor who made his directorial debut with Lady in the Lake, an adaptation of R...
Couples-on-the-run is one of the staple storylines in Hollywood. Fritz Lang’s second American film, You Only Live Oncefeatured Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney as they run away from an inescapable past. Nicholas Ray’s debut feature also dealt with a similar plotline. A boy-meets-girl love story, criminal element, and fatalistic philosophy are the fami...
Similar to They Live By Night, Gun Crazyis a tale of lovers on the run. But the similarities between both noir films end there. Joseph Lewis’ narrative moves at a breakneck pace and doesn’t have the polished aesthetics and elaborate mise-en-scène of Nicholas Ray. Made on a very low budget, Lewis creates some astounding set-pieces including a bank r...
Jules Dassin has made some amazing film noir classics. Brute Force(1947) and The Naked City(1948) established him as a prominent American auteur. He was also a victim of the infamous Hollywood Blacklist. This pushed him to move to Europe and work there for nearly three decades. He made the classic London noir Night and the City(1950) and the French...
In his 4-star review of Detour, Roger Ebert calls it, “haunting and creepy, an embodiment of the guilty soul of film noir. No one who has seen it has easily forgotten it.” There were plenty of transient B-movie studios that kept popping up in Hollywood between the 1930s and 1950s. These studios were addressed by the slang term ‘Poverty Row’. These ...
Edmund Goulding’s rediscovered and strange film noir is marked by the absence of guns, cops, and gangsters. Yet it’s riddled with cynicism, double-crosses, dark mind games, and seductive chiaroscuro lighting. The film revolves around a traveling carnival. Tyrone Power brilliantly plays the ambitious hustler, Stanton Carlislewho learns the tricks of...
John Huston’s hard-boiled film noir set the template for heist movies. Its stark visuals, snappy dialogues, and rough-hewn characters got deeply ingrained in urban noir films. Based on W.R. Burnett’s novel, Asphalt Junglefollows a crew of men planning a jewelry heist. A team of small-time criminals comes together to work for a criminal genius. The ...
Private eye Philip Marlowewas an impressive creation of Raymond Chandler’s hardboiled fiction. Marloweisn’t ideal hero material, but rather defined by his disillusionment and cynicism. Edward Dmytryk’s Murder, My Sweetmarks the first big-screen adaptation of Chandler’s Marloweseries. Dick Powell plays the central character, who gets hired by an ex-...
Sterling Hayden is cinema’s renowned tough-guy hero. His reputation was cemented by his morally nuanced roles in Asphalt Jungle andJohnny Guitar. When Hayden read the script for The Killinghe immediately wanted to be part of it. The actor was more intrigued when he heard the director is a rookie named Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick had made two independe...
Orson Welles could be one of the most idealized filmmakers. At 23, he created a sensational radio play based on H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds. When he was 25, he made Citizen Kane, often cited as one of the finest in film history. But even in the early part of his career, Welles had to constantly fight with producers and studio execs over creat...
2. No Smoking (2007) Not Rated | 128 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery. 7.3. Rate. A heavily addicted smoker is unprepared for the true price he must pay when he asks a guru's help to kick the habit. Director: Anurag Kashyap | Stars: John Abraham, Ayesha Takia, Paresh Rawal, Ranvir Shorey. Votes: 8,641. 3.
Apr 8, 2020 · Director: Zia Sarhadi Cast: Dilip Kumar, Meena Kumari Noshu (Dilip Kumar) is an impoverished journalist living with his elder brother Bani (Romesh Thapar) and sister-in-law Meena (Achla Sachdev).
Feb 7, 2024 · Orson Welles , Joseph Cotten , Alida Valli , Trevor Howard , Paul Hörbiger. Runtime. 93 Minutes. Consistently ranking among the best British films of all time, The Third Man featured Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles in an expressionistic murder mystery with exquisite use of lighting, camera angles, and music.
