Mauvais Sang, a playfully Godardian toying with film-noir tropes, concerns a rebellious teen, Alex (Denis Lavant), teaming up with his deceased father’s associates in Paris to steal a cure to an AIDS-like virus called STBO. Leos Carax’s use of close-ups and elliptical montage tends to...
We didn’t do a “best of the year so far” list, but if we had, this week’s most noteworthy disc release would’ve likely sat atop it, a family drama that repurposes the superhero tropes into something deeply felt and stunning. Also this week: two new… Film | By Jason Bailey ...
Even more succinctly: “It’s a bitter little world,” is how Joan Bennett’s character sums it up in Hollow Triumph (1948). Film noir is often associated with visual tropes such as wet city sidewalks, deep shadows, and oblique or “Dutch” camera angles. (“Dutch” here has nothing ...
The 30 best film noir movies of all time, from Double Indemnity to Sunset Blvd, center on an idea: It can be really hard to live in America.
These film noir tropes are then further scrambled in the manner of a certain kind of neo-noir. Literature Barbie ebbe l’impressione di essere piombato in un film noir fine anni Quaranta. Barbie felt as if they were driving into a noir movie from the late nineteen forties. Literature...
(detective, in some cases) meets a beautiful but immoral and seductive femme fatale. The female character is used to seduce and manipulate the male protagonist. The tone of the movies were set through the usage of lightening and intense dialogues. The camera work involved shadows, quiet open ...
As it turned out, character studies and world building predominate in Part One, which has its slow, portentous sides. The real machinations come into play only towards the latter half, where the dour, pouty youngster Paul (a perfectly cast Timothée Chalamet) and his mother, Lady Jessica (Sw...
where promiscuous fish all “get the urge and start to play” with each other’s bodies, but as a thoroughly corrupt society racked with Welfare Queen coded villainesses dealing in black magic. The article contends that the 2023 remake attempts to revise many of the racist tropes of the or...
“The most subversive element in most film noirs is the female character, who is often a femme fatale.” (20) “Noir films draw their verbal power from the hard-boiled school of writing.” (27) The Film Noir Filealso has other pages that I hope will interest you. ...
The work he scripted here is a lot of fun, combining noir-style mystery with typical LA "inside Hollywood" feelings, but with a lot of fourth-wall breaking going on with the characters. The main character/narrator, played by Robert Downey, Jr. is fully aware of the artificiality of the...