• The 1940s and 1950s are generally regarded as the "classic period" of American film noir. (wikipedia.org)
  • The clichés of film noir have inspired parody since the mid-1940s. (wikipedia.org)
  • Film noir similarly embraces a variety of genres, from the gangster film to the police procedural to the gothic romance to the social problem picture-any example of which from the 1940s and 1950s, now seen as noir's classical era, was likely to be described as a melodrama at the time. (wikipedia.org)
  • Film noir remains one of the most enduring legacies of 1940s and '50s Hollywood. (harvard.edu)
  • With its singular focus on the very best portrait photography of the 1940s and 1950s Hollywood film noir era, every page of this coffee-table volume is rich in brooding atmosphere. (artbook.com)
  • His use of low-key lighting and sculptural smoke further complicate historical periodisation, infusing the work with a 1940s film noir feel. (roslynoxley9.com.au)
  • 1950 APPOINTMENT WITH DANGER - This hardboiled film noir stars Alan Ladd as a special investigator sent to Indiana to solve a murder and track down the sole witness to the act. (highdefdigest.com)
  • NOIR CITY returned to San Francisco's majestic Castro Theatre for its 14th edition, January 22-31, 2016. (noircity.com)
  • This six disc limited edition collection brings together some of the best directors and actors in six crime soaked tales of hard-boiled detectives, seductive women, mistaken identity and suspense, in the best tradition of the shadowy world of Neo Noir Cinema! (highdefdigest.com)
  • Surely Leave Her to Heaven is one of the best colour film noir, along with the melodrama elements. (hometheaterforum.com)
  • and classic moments from films such as Gilda (1946), Double Indemnity (1944), The Lady from Shanghai (1947) and celebrated B-noirs such as Gun Crazy (1950) and The Hitch-Hiker (1953). (artbook.com)
  • In his latest book, Into the Dark: The Hidden World of Film Noir, 1941 to 1950 , Hollywood historian Mark A. Vieira excavates rare photos, publicity material, film reviews, audience surveys and contemporaneous interviews with stars and filmmakers to understand how the films we now call noir were received and discussed at the time of their initial release. (ucla.edu)
  • French: [film nwaʁ]) is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and motivations. (wikipedia.org)
  • The term film noir, French for 'black film' (literal) or 'dark film' (closer meaning), was first applied to Hollywood films by French critic Nino Frank in 1946, but was unrecognized by most American film industry professionals of that era. (wikipedia.org)
  • Though film noir is often identified with a visual style, unconventional within a Hollywood context, that emphasizes low-key lighting and unbalanced compositions, films commonly identified as noir evidence a variety of visual approaches, including ones that fit comfortably within the Hollywood mainstream. (wikipedia.org)
  • And you get invited to film festivals - the mother ship of all noir festivals is annually in San Francisco, but this year they will be held in Hollywood April 15-24 and, close to this cowboy, in Austin May 20-22. (thedigitalbits.com)
  • Hosted by historian, Turner Classic Movies host, and Hollywood Reporter columnist Robert Osborne , the evening will feature a post-screening discussion with actor Darryl Hickman, who plays Cornel Wilde's young brother in the film. (altfg.com)
  • Edward Dimendberg's aim in Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity is to show how closely film noir is associated with 20th-century American urban experience… He shows with lucidity and persuasiveness how throughout its life, loosely 1941 to 1959, noir and its doomed heroes provided a filmic map of a period of disconcerting change… Dimendberg's book is a fascinating memorial to a film genre and a lost America. (harvard.edu)
  • The Lady From Shanghai,' much of which was filmed in San Francisco and Sausalito, is an opening-night selection for the latest edition of Noir City, which starts Friday at Oakland's Grand Lake Theatre (the festival's new home, at least while the Castro's future as a film venue remains in doubt). (noircity.com)
  • this set of attributes constitutes the first of many attempts to define film noir made by French critics Raymond Borde and Étienne Chaumeton in their 1955 book Panorama du film noir américain 1941-1953 (A Panorama of American Film Noir), the original and seminal extended treatment of the subject. (wikipedia.org)
  • Film Noir is one of Hollywood's perennial cult genres, yet it is notoriously difficult to define, as it essentially amounts to a retrospective invention by critics. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • This year, it's 'the heart of Hollywood's noir movement,' films released in 1948. (noircity.com)
  • The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present the Technicolor film noir (yes, there was such a thing) Leave Her to Heaven , starring Best Actress Oscar nominee Gene Tierney, as part of its "Monday Nights with Oscar" series on March 17 at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy Theater in New York City. (altfg.com)
  • That lucky lad was John Alton, a cinematographer whose art has been lauded at recent film festivals in Vienna, Japan, Argentina, Telluride, and San Francisco, as well as in retrospectives at the American Museum of the Moving Image and the Pacific Film Archives. (theasc.com)
  • Enjoy the best of both worlds: Film & Festival News, exploring the best of the film festivals community. (filmfestivals.com)
  • Launched in 1995, relentlessly connecting films to festivals, documenting and promoting festivals worldwide. (filmfestivals.com)
  • Here are some of the movies they've saved - Cry Danger (1951), with Dick Powell and Rhonda Fleming, Hide Tide , (1947) with the great Lee Tracy and the gem of all gems - The Prowler , directed by Joseph Losey, that commie, and starring my Oklahoma homeboy Van Heflin, which has been called "the creepiest of all film noirs," by The Village Voice. (thedigitalbits.com)
  • Presented from 23 January until 3 March 2018, the exhibition features Julien's award-winning film Looking for Langston (1989), which will be presented as part of the solo exhibition of his newly conceived, large-scale photographs as well as original silver gelatin photographic works. (roslynoxley9.com.au)
  • The exhibition will also coincide with Julien's film Young Soul Rebels (1991) showing at the Golden Age Cinema by Queer Screen on 18 February 2018 as part of the Mardi Gras Film Festival and a special screening of Looking for Langston in its original 16mm format at the Art Gallery of New South Wales on 14 February 2018 at 7pm. (roslynoxley9.com.au)
  • Jump into the world of Film Noir and look at how the technology and economic factors gave birth to a genre that still deeply influences the way filmmakers work today. (filmmakeriq.com)
  • the contribution made by exile / émigré filmmakers in shaping Film Noir. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • The cycle will be presented by two luxury guests: filmmakers Walter Hill and James Gray , both authors of films featured in the retrospective. (filmfestivals.com)
  • In Leave Her to Heaven , Gene Tierney, who had the title role in Otto Preminger 's classic 1944 (black-and-white) film noir Laura , stars as Ellen, a beautiful woman who falls madly - and I mean madly - in love with a novelist (Wilde). (altfg.com)
  • Many of the prototypical stories and much of the attitude of classic noir derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the Great Depression. (wikipedia.org)
  • Exploring classic examples of film noir such as The Asphalt Jungle , Double Indemnity , Kiss Me Deadly , and The Naked City alongside many lesser-known works, Dimendberg masterfully interweaves film history and urban history while perceptively analyzing works by Raymond Chandler, Edward Hopper, Siegfried Kracauer, and Henri Lefebvre. (harvard.edu)
  • Modern films that incorporate the moods, themes, and atmosphere of classic Film Noirs. (listal.com)
  • Featured image of Joan Crawford in her iconic 1945 come-back performance of ruthlessly ambitious yet heartlessly scorned single mother Mildred Pierce is reproduced from Film Noir Portraits, Reel Art Press's authoritative new compendium of classic and previously unpublished film-noir studio photography. (artbook.com)
  • Peter Lorre co-stars in this suspense noir classic. (highdefdigest.com)
  • Barry Fitzgerald, Nancy Olson and Lyle Bettger co-star in this classic film noir. (highdefdigest.com)
  • When he was growing up, Martin Reznik would watch classic French gangster films with his father, instilling in him a lifelong love for film noir. (designyoutrust.com)
  • In this vein, it could be likened to BRICK and THE ICE HARVEST, which similarly find comi-tragic inspiration in a literary tradition while largely abandoning the classic noir visual style. (libsyn.com)
  • Movie lovers from around the globe had a grand time at the 13th annual edition of NOIR CITY: The San Francisco Film Noir Festival, held January 16-25, 2015. (noircity.com)
  • The newly conserved film was recently shown at both MoMA New York and Tate Britain in 2017 before coming to Sydney. (roslynoxley9.com.au)
  • The 2017 incarnation of the world's most popular film noir festival returned to the legendary Castro Theatre January 20�29 with 24 exceptional films exploring, in films both suspenseful and comedic, the desperate lengths to which people will go to beat the system and hit the big time. (noircity.com)
  • It can be done but if you are just learning film noir video why complicate things? (videomaker.com)
  • Kelly is the chief film reviewer at the East Bay Express and a member of the San Francisco Film Critics Circle . (filmnoirfoundation.org)
  • I'm sure I had no idea what "film noir" was until I found what was then and is now a seminal book on the subject "The Film Noir Encyclopedia" by Alain Silver, Elizabeth Ward, James Ursini and Robert Porfino. (thedigitalbits.com)
  • Twilight Time has not shied away from noir - soon they will offer, for the second time, Fritz Lang's seminal The Big Heat , with Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame and Lee Marvin. (thedigitalbits.com)
  • The images were executed using black only to recreate film noir aesthetic," Martin writes . (designyoutrust.com)
  • This essay examines the relationship between the two feature-length Blade Runner films, placing a certain focus on areas of aesthetic, design, and thematic content with the aim of reaching new insights into the social, cultural, and ideological contexts in which the films were made. (lu.se)
  • The aim of this essay is therefore to explore the relationship between the two feature-length Blade Runner films, placing a certain focus on areas of aesthetic, design, and thematic content, in the hopes that we, through their juxtaposition, might reach new insights into the social, cultural, and ideological contexts in which they were made. (lu.se)
  • You included DANGEROUS MISSION (RKO 1954) as a non-CinemaScope noir in color. (hometheaterforum.com)
  • Director Henri Verneuil 's French heist film rings home the alienation of a degraded moral landscape through an overwhelming physical metaphor: the introduction of Brutalist architecture into old France. (washingtoncitypaper.com)
  • The Big Knockover" was a veritable history of the heist film. (noircity.com)
  • Towards the end of the course, we will consider the question whether the noir paradigm can be found as well in other cultural contexts, and in Britain in particular. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • In keeping with Vieira's project to present noir in its original contexts, UCLA Film & Television Archive presents an ultra-rare double feature of two film noir classics presented in original 35mm nitrate prints. (ucla.edu)
  • Arrow Academy's third volume in its "FILM NOIR CLASSICS" four-DVD series will appear on August 7. (boardhost.com)
  • This year, curator Eddie Muller and the Film Noir Foundation take viewers around the world to see how this distinctly American subgenre left its mark on global cinema with Noir City: International , available online from Nov. 13 to 29 through the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center. (washingtoncitypaper.com)
  • Aspiring to translate the instantly recognizable aesthetics of film noir though animation, she imagined a painterly 3D world. (awn.com)
  • Surround yourself in a miasma of social media darkness: join us on Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter for a complete immersion in the world of film noir through film stills, posters, film clips, brilliant insights, and more. (filmnoirfoundation.org)
  • This 'emotionally riveting, powerful and unsparing film (Variety) exposes the plight of two narcotics officers who cross the line…and become enmeshed in the dangerous but intoxicating underbelly of the drug world. (highdefdigest.com)
  • Like the world-weary antihero of any good film noir, the Noir City film festival has gone up against tough adversaries, became entangled in labyrinthine plot twists and been chased out of town. (noircity.com)
  • Its timely theme, given the threat traditional arts face from the technology revolution and its accompanying skyrocketing living costs, was 'The Art of Darkness'-a collection of 25 noir-stained films exploring the pressures, pitfalls, paranoia and pain of being an artist in an indifferent and often cruel world. (noircity.com)
  • In the film, vision is the core motif and the concept that "both makes and unmakes the self".2 It is also the medium through which we encounter the film world in all its incredible, and terrible, detail. (lu.se)
  • In fact, I first came to Muller through his novels - his novels "The Distance" and "Shadow Boxer" were fantastic, but then he commissioned the Film Noir Foundation and, through his tireless work, these movies, these treasures were unmasked, uncovered and brought into the mainstream. (thedigitalbits.com)
  • So then comes Muller's Film Noir Foundation which is "Dedicated to Rescuing and Restoring America's Noir Heritage," which they have accomplished in (Sam) spades. (thedigitalbits.com)
  • Leave Her to Heaven was recently restored by 20th Century Fox and the Academy Film Archive, with funding from the Film Foundation. (altfg.com)
  • With such films as T-Men, Raw Deal and The Big Combo , the iconic cinematographer's influential work formed the very foundation of the "dark film" style. (theasc.com)
  • Set against the rugged natural beauty of New Mexico where a novelist (Cornel Wilde) and his new wife (Gene Tierney) settle into a lakeside cabin after a whirlwind romance, Leave Her To Heaven exudes an atypical atmosphere for a film noir. (ucla.edu)
  • In the third chapter, I explore the role and treatment of race and ethnicity in both films, as well as the allegorical meanings to be found in their depictions of slavery and the police force. (lu.se)
  • Remember Warner Bros. 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Universal, Columbia a film noir can be in color and/or in Cinemascope! (hometheaterforum.com)
  • The films all originate from either Paramount or Universal. (boardhost.com)
  • A bold intervention in cultural studies and a major contribution to film history, Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity will provoke debate by cinema scholars, urban historians, and students of modern culture-and will captivate admirers of a vital period in American cinema. (harvard.edu)
  • Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity is the sort of title to get most film lovers fleeing the bookshop for the cinema, but they would be missing something worthwhile. (harvard.edu)
  • It will introduce and combine various approaches to the study of cinema history, including genre theory, exile studies, and studies on film economics, and cultural politics. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • Film noir continues to be a popular genre in cinema. (booklistonline.com)
  • Directed by Julien while he was a member of Sankofa Film and Video Collective, and assisted by the film critic and curator Mark Nash, the 1989 film is a landmark in the exploration of artistic expression, the nature of desire and the reciprocity of the gaze, and would become the hallmark of what B. Ruby Rich named New Queer Cinema. (roslynoxley9.com.au)
  • He is at his best when analyzing individual films, as in the extended comparison between the sensational New York photographs by Weegee in his book The Naked City and the realistic film noir of the same name. (harvard.edu)
  • In this episode, West plays music from three more film noir scores composed by Miklós Rózsa. (battleshippretension.com)
  • To leave a comment on this episode, or make a donation to the podcast, please visit "Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir" at outofthepast.libsyn.com. (libsyn.com)
  • Whether film noir qualifies as a distinct genre or whether it is more of a filmmaking style is a matter of ongoing and heavy debate among scholars. (wikipedia.org)
  • 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. (wikipedia.org)
  • Hirsch notes that there are unifying features of tone, visual style and narrative sufficient to classify noir as a distinct genre. (wikipedia.org)
  • Others argue that film noir is not a genre. (wikipedia.org)
  • so there is no character basis for genre designation as with the gangster film. (wikipedia.org)
  • Film Noir is often called a genre, meaning a type of movie style like a western, a romance or a comedy, but it is often argued that you can't call it a genre because Film Noir video isn't about the story, it's about the light - and the dark - within that story. (videomaker.com)
  • Not only does it embody the caliber of creativity and storytelling our festival celebrates, but also it's a cleverly fun ode to this year's film noir theme, which we chose to honor the late Evan Lawson, former President of the Provincetown Film Society Board of Directors, who was a huge fan of the genre. (awn.com)
  • This album captures the snapshots of sacrificed lives lost in the big sleeping cities by compiling powerful musical pieces to create a sonic film noir musical translation of the film noir genre. (milanrecords.com)
  • Think of this sumptuous book not just as an homage to the genre, but a valuable catalogue for which essential noir movies to enjoy. (artbook.com)
  • Gray went on to film another two major contributions to the genre, The Yards (1999) and We Own the Night (2007). (filmfestivals.com)
  • However, a film about crime was not only believable but realistic because many of the world's major cities were engulfed in crime. (videomaker.com)
  • 1949 DARK CITY - In this class film noir, a desperate GI commits suicide after he gets taken by grifter (Charlton Heston) and his cronies (Ed Begley, Jack Webb, Harry Morgan). (highdefdigest.com)
  • We are a cultural charity, a National Lottery funding distributor, and the UK's lead organisation for film and the moving image. (bfi.org.uk)
  • Even as a flat 2-d film, INFERNO is an original and engaging noir. (hometheaterforum.com)
  • When I spoke to Muller he was researching relevant events from 1948 to touch on in his pre- and post-screening comments, which will allow him to talk about what happened in the U.S. that year in relation to the original release dates of the films. (noircity.com)
  • And how does the sequel affect our view of the original film? (lu.se)
  • We have been very effective in addressing the demand of the new emerging digital audiences for wholesome entertainment content through our slate of feature films that have found place of favour in the many OTT platforms," added Vikram Mehra, MD Saregama India, which owns Yoodlee. (yahoo.com)
  • Dimendberg's concern is with the way film noir exploits our sense of anomie and alienation through its representation of the city and its varied spaces, the manner in which we are disturbed by the intrusion of the modern and its practitioners, and our nostalgia for a vanishing past and the sense of community it once represented. (harvard.edu)
  • As I mentioned earlier, studios and digital releasing entities are harvesting their libraries to bring film noir out into the light. (thedigitalbits.com)
  • Playing on the light and shadow of film noir, Valvo honored Lauren Bacall in his fall collection with a palette of ivory, black, camel and deep reds and browns. (today.com)
  • 2) Any additional lighting techniques or effects that might be great for film noir, let me know! (dvinfo.net)
  • film noir stalwart John Payne (how great was he? (thedigitalbits.com)
  • Not to mention that no one I know is excited about digital 3-D since, except for the Disney Hannah movie and the 2 recent and not so great 3-D rock films- everything's been animated. (hometheaterforum.com)
  • As per the Cinefest website, the mini-festival features "great films to fill the four glorious days from the vaults of the world's greatest libraries and obscure specialties we are noted for from private collectors! (altfg.com)
  • Walter Hill (Long Beach, 1942) is one of the great action helmers of American film, author of cult movies like Hard Times (1975), Driver (1978), The Warriors (1979), The Long Raiders (1980) and Southern Comfort (1982), entrant in San Sebastian Festival's Official Selection. (filmfestivals.com)
  • NOIR CITY's 11th year festival kicked off with a tribute to guest of honor Peggy Cummins, legendary for her ferocious performance as outlaw Annie Laurie Starr in Gun Crazy . (noircity.com)
  • The group, which only creates 3,000 titles, also struck noir pay dirt with Violent Saturday , a 3-D disc of Man in the Dark , Otto Preminger's Bunny Lake is Missing and Dana Andrews in Where the Sidewalk Ends , as well as a glorious transformation of Leave Her to Heaven . (thedigitalbits.com)
  • Does any other film festival open with a double feature? (noircity.com)
  • Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key, black-and-white visual style that has roots in German Expressionist cinematography. (wikipedia.org)
  • Populated by double-crossing, unsavory characters, this pioneering film style explored a shadow side of American life during a period of tremendous prosperity and optimism. (harvard.edu)
  • Eventually, the art of filmmaking had evolved to reflect what was on the minds of film studio moguls - the dark side of society - and directors, were demanding their photography and lighting effects crews create a style that could evoke the emotions of the time. (videomaker.com)
  • Thus was born filmmaking in the style of "Film Noir. (videomaker.com)
  • Film Noir is a lighting effects style where the mysterious shadows of a scene - that place of the unknown - might be more intriguing than the subject itself. (videomaker.com)
  • a Christmas-themed comedy in the Film Noir style. (boyinthebands.com)
  • The 12th edition of the world's most popular film noir festival went international, exploding the long-held belief that noir stories and style are a specifically American phenomenon. (noircity.com)
  • The film earned Julien a cult following and its focus on a Black, Queer experience within the American cultural landscape retains its urgency and relevance regarded as a touchstone for Cultural Studies and has been taught widely in North American and Australian universities, colleges and art schools for nearly 30 years. (roslynoxley9.com.au)
  • A] splendid, groundbreaking book… Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity is a book that-as I can vividly attest-completely changes the way you view movies… [It is] one of the most outstanding publications in film studies over the past five years. (harvard.edu)
  • You are warmly welcome to this research seminar focusing on Nordic film and television of the past two decades, with particular emphasis on works that have gained international circulation and attention. (lu.se)
  • make connections between American Film Noir and its European counterparts. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • While Julien was directing the film, he paid close attention to the photographs of James Van der Zee, George Platt Lynes and Robert Mapplethorpe, and it is possible to see a direct relation between images imbued with references to the history of 1930s black-and-white African American photography and 1980s Queer cultures. (roslynoxley9.com.au)
  • The retrospective dedicated to American film noir will open at the 59th edition of the Festival with TEXAS KILLING FIELDS , a film to compete in the Official Selection at Venice Festival. (filmfestivals.com)
  • Monday Nights with Oscar" is a monthly series showcasing high-quality prints of films that have been nominated for or won Academy Awards. (altfg.com)
  • Directed by James Foley, After Dark My Sweet is generally considered one of the most underrated films of the 1990's. (highdefdigest.com)
  • discuss the development of the term 'Film Noir' and give examples of differing critical approaches to its understanding as well as the problematic nature of the term itself. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • The originality of Dimendberg's approach lies in his examining these films in tandem with historical developments in architecture, city planning, and modern communications systems. (harvard.edu)
  • After all, almost everyone loves noir, and anyone who has seen a few will have noted how anxiety and its relation to the modern urban environment seem to be constant themes. (harvard.edu)
  • Boatman first researched the tradition of film noir - vintage and modern - to create a reference library of images and videos for inspiration. (awn.com)
  • Films like the gutsy revenge drama Ajji , to the pathos filled National-award winning human drama Hamid , the heartland love-stories of Chaman Bahaar and Kanpuriye , to the urban social commentaries like Comedy Couple and Axone - Yoodlee Films has reveled in creating engaging narratives that don't toe the conventional line. (yahoo.com)
  • The introduction gives a brief account of the films, their narratives, and their reception, including a dive into the matter of the many versions of the 1982 film and which of these shall be the essay's point of reference. (lu.se)
  • Consider these widescreen color noirs bought and paid for, the moment they're released on DVD. (hometheaterforum.com)
  • Time for film buffs to get acclimated to color noir. (hometheaterforum.com)
  • To see DANGEROUS MISSION aired in flat 2-d is a better than average noir in fine IB color, but to see it projected in authentic 3-D is impressive indeed. (hometheaterforum.com)
  • In any case, I fully endorse your idea to release color noirs on DVD, even if the 3-D titles are flat. (hometheaterforum.com)
  • Why do we spend whole days watching old films when we can watch them in full, wondrous color? (jpeterman.com)
  • The Noir City film festival's slate of films is international this year, and 19 are available to stream through the AFI Silver Theatre. (washingtoncitypaper.com)
  • It's been a year since I have requested film noir's be released in CinemaScope. (hometheaterforum.com)
  • Every year, Noir City has a different theme. (noircity.com)
  • Each subchapter explores the films from a different perspective leading up to chapter IV, in which I consider the films in relation to the cultural theory of capitalist realism. (lu.se)
  • Julien has recently worked to conserve and restore the images of the 16mm film from his extensive archive. (roslynoxley9.com.au)