This beautifully made noir is among the many films produced by versatile filmmaking twins John and Roy Boulting, with John taking the director’s chair in this case. Kudos to cinematographer Harry Waxman and his camera operator Gilbert Taylor (also to be a major cinematographer), editor Peter Gr...
12 Neo-Noir Movies From The 90s That Are As Good As 'L.A. Confidential' 1The Usual Suspects 18 Votes 2Seven 11 Votes 3Mulholland Falls 11 Votes 5 Who Framed Roger Rabbit Year It Hit The Silver Screen: 1988 What It's About: In a fantastical version of 1940s Los Angeles, cartoon cha...
Unlike some old movies that I cherish in memory, this one was just as good from the perspective of late middle age as it was when I was a kid. I thought it was hilarious when I was a teenager—I laughed out loud in the theater when the cop ca...
I've watched some noir films while drawing this comic, and where has that dialogue been all my life? Also, if you read essays on how femme fatales threw out conventions of the day you realize they are all basically the best characters ever. Too bad for any lousy rat they cross paths ...
Here is an alphabetical listing of all the movies (so far) that have been certified as among the 366 weirdest ever made, along with links to films reviewed in capsule form only. (You may need to use your browser’s search function, often CTRL-F, to locate a specific movie). ...
Laura(1944, Raksin/Mercer)(TJD: 870)David Raksin composed for many movies; in the case of the film noirLauradirected by Otto Preminger, the score is mostly comprised of a sinuous theme that almost becomes a character in the story. Celebrated lyricist Johnny Mercer added his contribution after...
certainly fits well into the Crime as well as the Radio Noir sub-genre.The legacy of James Bond makes it a little difficult to take the world of espionage and spy-craft as seriously as it should be. In reality the work of our intelligence agencies was of great value the nation during ...
‘s solution to Chen’s problem shoehorns the film into a traditional (and less interesting) violent format, but his depiction of the corruption – both moral and financial – just below the surface of Chinese city life, and Chen’s hardening of the heart, are a compellin...
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The life of a Japanese film composer in the 1960s and 70s was very different from their American counterparts. “For Hollywood movies, there is a three-month period to write the music after the film has been finished,”...