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2 days ago · Huston and Cusack created a profound, unsettling chemistry that helped make the film the mean noir that it is. Director Frears expertly lays out the messy relationship Lilly and Roy have from the ...
5 days ago · A subgenre of the crime film, set within the milieu of organized crime. There are numerous antecedents of the gangster film in early crime films such as A Daring Daylight Burglary (Frank S. Mottershaw, UK, 1903), The Moonshiners (Wallace McCutcheon, US, 1904), and Desperate Encounter Between Burglars and Police (Edwin S. Porter and Wallace McCutcheon, US, 1905).
2 days ago · After early Indian experiments in silent film, in 1934 Bombay Talkies, launched by Himansu Rai, spearheaded the growth of Indian cinema. Over the years, several classic genres emerged from Bollywood: the historical epic, notably Mughal-e-Azam (1960); the curry western, such as Sholay (1975); the courtesan film, such as Pakeezah (1972), which highlights stunning cinematography and sensual dance ...
2 days ago · A concise introduction to the genre about that one last big score, The Heist Film: Stealing With Style traces this crime thriller's development as both a dramatic and comic vehicle growing out of film noir, mutating into sleek capers in the 1960s and splashing across screens in the 2000s in remake after remake. Built around a series of case ...
2 days ago · The Penguin's Reference To A 1940s Film Noir Is Deeper Than You Realize As well as the symbolism of Dolly Parton's "9 To 5", The Penguin episode 1 also uses a near 80-year-old movie to suggest deeper meaning.
5 days ago · History film (historical film) A fiction film showing past events or set within a historical period. This extensive genre shares territory with the biopic, costume drama, heritage film, and epic film.
4 days ago · Not every book can help you fill your Nick and Nora coupes and your evening’s film-watching playlist, but Noir Bar does both with elan. That’s not too surprising given the author is Eddie Muller, host of Turner Classic Movies’ Noir Alley, on which he curates and provides intros to generally 1940s noir from well-known classics like The Big Sleep to the B-est of B-pictures, like The Devil ...
