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 ...
he does a great job regardless of selling his character’s mix of fanatical fervour and friendly indulgence, as when he assures Paul over the phone that since he’s destroyed his control unit and can’t be possessed for at least a week he might as ...
The legendary Joan Crawford stars in the 1945 filmMildred Pierce, and it’s quite possibly the film that features the best balance between noir sensibilities and outright Hollywood melodrama. It tells the story of the titular character, who becomes a successful businesswoman after her husband leaves...
In Jules Dassin’s unorthodox noir Night and the City, Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) is a snipe without a career plan, an “artist without an art,” as one character states early on, whose hustling of tourists and quick-cash schemes result in widespread disdain at even a mention of the...
Because the film is so utterly determined to keep lunging forward that scarcely any character registers as more than a basic trait, the specifics of the casting mean a lot, and Nolan proves his canniness at that tactic for the most part: Hartnett, for instance, is intriguing playing the ...
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.
This chapter will illustrate how Nordic Noir deploys the film noir narrative tropes, and how it reimagined its heroes and heroines. With themes of gender politics and its role in creating representation and imagination, I will discuss how film noir deploys its depictions of gender and how it ...
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...
With it come more hearty themes and character introductions, more twists and universe expansion. It is by no means a potential classic, but it does prove that Sonic the Hedgehog is no longer just a video game icon, he’s a family film one too. A rogue hedgehog known as Shadow (K...
‘noir’ was a generic label only retrospectively assigned to certain films by critics, there was still an awareness at the time of a certain kind of crime film that were characterised by certain tropes – a morally compromised male lead, women as deceitful as they are alluring who can only...