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3 days ago · Nicholas Christopher, Somewhere in the Night (1997) While many critics refer to film noir as a genre itself, others argue that it can be no such thing. Foster Hirsch defines a genre as determined by "conventions of narrative structure, characterization, theme, and visual design." Hirsch, as one who has taken the position that film noir is a genre, argues that these elements are present "in ...
- Italian Neorealism
Italian neorealism (Italian: Neorealismo), also known as the...
- German Expressionism
Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry...
- Robert Siodmak
Early life. Siodmak was born in Dresden, Germany, the son of...
- Stranger on The Third Floor
Stranger on the Third Floor is a 1940 American film noir...
- The Big Combo
The Big Combo is a 1955 American film noir crime film...
- Italian Neorealism
3 days ago · Film noir is not a clearly defined genre (see here for details on the characteristics). Therefore, the composition of this list may be controversial. To minimize dispute the films included here should preferably feature a footnote linking to a reliable, published source which states that the mentioned film is considered to be a film noir by an expert in this field, e.g.
Apr 6, 2024 · 22. In a Lonely Place (1950) The movie poster for "In a Lonely Place." Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place delves into the dark undercurrents of Hollywood, focusing on the turbulent life of Dixon ...
5 days ago · 2. Double Indemnity (1944) 1. Sunset Boulevard (1950) Show 5 more items. The genre enjoyed its height during the 1940s and ’50s. Since then, film noir has fallen out of fashion, and while modern ...
Apr 17, 2024 · Emerging from the hardboiled fiction or detective literature of Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Raymond Chandler in the late 1920s and 1930s, noir arguably found its true home in the cinema of the 1940s and 1950s. After all, when we think of noir, we automatically think of film noir, not noir literature. It was a Frenchman, Nino Frank, who ...
Apr 12, 2024 · Film noir, literally 'black cinema,' is the label customarily given to a group of black and white American films, mostly crime thrillers, made between 1940 and 1959. Today there is considerable dispute about what are the shared features that classify a noir film, and therefore which films should be included in this category.
Apr 7, 2024 · “The first thing Mark did was give me 15 films to watch, to start our conversation,” said Meirelles who admitted to the showrunner in their first meeting he wasn’t well versed in film noir ...
