FILM NOIR Film Noir (literally 'black film or cinema, ' from French film critics who noticed the trend of how dark and black the looks and themes were of many American crime and detective films released in France following the war) is a style of American films that evolved in the 1940s, and lasted in a classic period until about 1960. Film noir is a distinct branch or subgenre of the ...

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Images #2 In Focus Articles: 10 Shades of Film Noir, featuring The Big Combo, The Big Heat, The Big Sleep, Double Indemnity, Foce of Evil, Gun Crazy, Lady from Shanghai, Pickup on South Street, Shadow of a Doubt, and Sweet Smell of Success.

A Dame With A Rod, Is Like A Guy With A Knitting Needle. Steve Brodie in ' OUT OF THE PAST ' (1947) Welcome to The 'Danger & Despair Knitting Circle' Video Club! A Resource for Classic Film Noir. FILM NOIR VIDEOS AND 16 MM FILMS FILM NOIR VIDEOS AND 16 MM FILMS The 'Knitting Circle' trades, swaps, buys & sells Film Noir on video and 16 mm film. All items available from our lists are done on a ...

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Philip Marlowe Created by Raymond Chandler I'm a romantic, Bernie. I hear voices crying in the night and I go to see what's the matter. You don't make a dime that way. . . No percentage in it at all. --Marlowe gives the game away, to a cop buddy. What more can I say about PHILIP MARLOWE Three Gun Mack may have been the first, Race Williams introduced the PI to the world and The Continental Op ...

The Dark Room what is wrong with this picture it looks as if everything has gone kind of crazy. mysterious shadows slice the world into jagged fragments whether it's day or night. meanwhile, in the corners of the room, blackness itself collects in thick pools like congealing blood. the walls are closing in like a big steel trap snapping shut in slow motion. paranoia and dread hang heavily in ...

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Full-Text Articles and Essays on Film Noir High Heels on Web Pavement: Film Noir and the Femme Fatale by Michael Mills No Place for a Woman: The Family in Film Noir and Other Essays by John Blaser ...

The premier film noir site, from the man who wrote THE book on noir. Eddie Muller introduces you to the stars and storytellers who made the genre great.

Classicnoir.com - The Hardboiled World of Classic Film Noir includes feature articles, recommendations, more than 600 films, and a great video and book store!

Noir on the Web! It's dangerous dames, crooked cops, and bad luck!

RICHARD WIDMARK: THE FACE OF FILM NOIR by Brian W. Fairbanks Richard Widmark's career examined by writer Brian W. Fairbanks with emphasis on his contributions to film noir.

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The Big Sleep (1946) Cast | Crew | Articles | Bibliography | Links | Image Credits Howard Hawks' THE BIG SLEEP (1946) starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall is a very complicated film. It was originally shot in December 1944, a few months after Bogart and Bacall's debut pairing, TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1944), and a few months before the two stars married. THE BIG SLEEP was based on the Raymond ...

THE SHADOWS OF FILM NOIR by Brian W. Fairbanks Essay on film noir by writer Brian W. Fairbanks examining the genre's heyday, decline, and revival.

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Night of the Soul: American Film Noir Studies in Popular Culture, V. 9, No. 1, 1986. pp. 61-83. __________________________________________________________________________________ Rebecca House Stankowski Technical Services Librarian Purdue University Calumet Every so often something happens in art, literature, and cinema that leaves a lasting impression and influences much of what comes after.

Film noir, that dark and cynical genre that found its niche in Hollywood films of the 40's...black rainy streets, criminal treachery, victimized anti-heros and femme fatales...Warner Bros., RKO, and Columbia gave us some of the best. Here, the Mave spotlights three movies from a studio known more for its colorful musicals than film noir: MGM. Even though all three films have the lush production ...

1941-1956) Everybody s got a secret, Sonny Something that they just can t face Some folks spend their whole lives tryin to keep it They carry it with `em every step that they take Till some day they just cut it loose cut it loose or let it drag `em down Where no one asks any questions, or looks too long in your face In the darkness on the edge of town ( B R U C E S P R I N G S T E E N ) Film ...

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What really makes Harikomi fascinating to watch is its very progressive social critique, in particular on the marginalization and abuse of women.

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Stray Dog Stray Dog portrays the struggle to create a viable postwar social ethic and shows explicitly what is the personal cost of implementing such an ethic. . . takes as its subject postwar Japan and becomes a kind of epic of national reconstruction. . . Both Stray Dog and Drunken Angel clealy demonstrate the difficulties Kurosawa's aesthetic project in response to postwar Japan. The ...