a power couple before the term was even created. They collaborated in a few film noirs, none more enduring or acclaimed than 1946’sThe Big Sleep. Bogart plays Phillip Marlowe, a private eye hired to settle the gambling debts of a rich man’s younger daughter. With the help of the...
But we’ve also taken a more expansive view of noir, allowing room for supreme examples of the proto-noirs that anticipated the genre and the neo-noirs that resulted from the genre being rebooted in the midst of the Cold War, seemingly absorbing the world’s darkest and deepest fears. Then...
In honor ofConfidentialbecoming a gateway movie drug for myself—and many others—on its 20-year anniversary, we present 19 other film noirs that are necessary to see in order to better understand and love the genre. Dames, hats, cigarettes, and late hours. This is our beginner’s guide ...