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Apr 6, 2024 · Billy Wilder's classic 1944 film noir "Double Indemnity" stars Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray. This list aims to honor the best and most important entries in this genre. From hard-nosed ...
2 days ago · The book delves into the films Double Indemnity has influenced during the peak noir era and more contemporary or neo-noir films like Body Heat (1981). And you can’t ignore the foreboding score by Miklos Rozsa. The feeling of dread is apparent from the opening credits and is carried through to the very last frame.
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5 days ago · The best part of the Silver/Ursini book is the padding, the last forty pages in which the two authors go past Double Indemnity release to contextualize it within the generic stream of “film noir.” From the Moment They Met It Was Murder: Double Indemnity and the Rise of Film Noir by Alain Silver and James Ursini. Running Press, $30.
Apr 2, 2024 · Screenwriter/producer and film historian Alain Silver is the author/editor of more than thirty books on cinema, including The Noir Style, The Samurai Film, and Film Noir The Encyclopedia. He has also produced more than thirty independent motion pictures; provided commentary for many noir DVD/Blu-ray releases; and lectured on film history and ...
- 9780.8B
- Running Press Book Publishers
- 04/02/2024
- Turner Classic Movies
Mar 30, 2024 · Film Noir. Alain Silver, James Ursini. TASCHEN, Mar 30, 2024 - Performing Arts - 648 pages. Whether it's Double Indemnity, Kiss Me Deadly, or The Big Sleep, roam a screen world of dark and brooding elegance with this essential handbook to Film Noir. From private eyes and perfect crimes to corrupt cops and doomed affairs, editors Paul Duncan and ...
- Alain Silver, James Ursini
- TASCHEN, 2024
- Jürgen Müller, Paul Duncan
- Film Noir
Apr 15, 2024 · Jane Greer and Robert Mitchum in "Out of the Past" (1947). There’s no set definition of film noir, just certain characteristics that noirs tend to contain: (1) Hard-boiled voice-over narration, in which the hero tells his story. (2) A beautiful and thoroughly evil woman, the more evil the better ...
Apr 12, 2024 · Cry Me a River: The Sweet Sorrow of Film Noir. “Life is a tragedy when seen in a close-up, but a comedy when seen in the long shot.”. – Charlie Chaplin. Melodrama: the essential link between classical tragedy and ‘dark film’. “Suffering, with style” is the succinct and totally apt way that Turner Classic Movies curator Eddie ...
