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Film noir is a cinematic mode primarily associated with Hollywood crime dramas that set their protagonists in a corrupt and unsympathetic world. Film noir's characteristic low-key black-and-white visual style has roots in German Expressionist cinematography, while many of its prototypical stories and much of its attitude derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the Depression. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching from the early 1940s to the late 1950s.
The term film noir (French for "black film"), first applied to Hollywood movies by French critic Nino Frank in 1946, was unknown to most of the American filmmakers and actors while they were creating the classic film noirs. The canon of film noir was defined in retrospect by film historians and critics; many of those involved in the making of film noir later professed to be unaware at the time of having created a distinctive type of film.
Noir—What is it?
"We'd be oversimplifying things in calling film noir oneiric, strange, erotic, ambivalent, and cruel...." This is the first of many attempts to define film noir made by the French critics Raymond Borde and Etienne 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. They take pains to point out that not each film noir embodies all five attributes in equal measure—this one is more dreamlike, while this other is particularly brutal. Yet, despite the authors' caveats (and repeated efforts at alternative definitions), in five decades it has hardly been bettered as a concise description of the noir mode as perceived by a plurality of critics. The preliminary warning is also well advised: attempts, no matter how lengthy, to define this field whose roots, outgrowths, and very nature are inveterately diverse tend to result not just in the sort of generalizing that comes with all acts of definition, but simplicity over and beyond. More on [ Film noir ]
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Brick is film noir set in a high school
stoweboyd (Stowe Boyd) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:26:25 -0000
Brick is film noir set in a high school
Film Noir or Fancy Shampoo? http://tinyurl.com/yeo6eoy
salonspadiva (Alex Parker) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:21:02 -0000
Film Noir or Fancy Shampoo? http://tinyurl.com/yeo6eoy
"Why is it that even the most unpretentious, not to say dumb, film noir is so easy to intellectualize?" (http://bit.ly/2i1Leb)
MMonFilm (MMonFilm) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:17:44 -0000
"Why is it that even the most unpretentious, not to say dumb, film noir is so easy to intellectualize?" (http://bit.ly/2i1Leb)
Tilburg - Museum De Pont: Suspect - hedendaagse kunstenaars en film noir: Er klinkt een geweerschot! Een gangst.. http://bit.ly/126P8
Kunstbus (Guus Jurcka) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:08:21 -0000
Tilburg - Museum De Pont: Suspect - hedendaagse kunstenaars en film noir: Er klinkt een geweerschot! Een gangst.. http://bit.ly/126P8
Film noir ... aint nothing better! Paul Newman is indeed a Legend.
hoodieville (Amos Kito) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:40:29 -0000
Film noir ... aint nothing better! Paul Newman is indeed a Legend.
Actually, strike that: 'Dupree's Paradise' is more Hitchcock than film noir. I can also imagine it accompanying 'The Old Man and The Sea'.
ChrisBellNZ (Chris Bell) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:38:35 -0000
Actually, strike that: 'Dupree's Paradise' is more Hitchcock than film noir. I can also imagine it accompanying 'The Old Man and The Sea'.
Despair Knitting Circle - Noir resources including a club that trades, swaps, buys and sells video and 16mm films.
Classic Noir Online - The Hardboiled World of Classic Film Noir includes articles, recommendations and more than 600 films.
Meta Description: [ Classicnoir.com - The Hardboiled World of Classic Film Noir includes feature articles, recommendations, more than 600 films, and a great video and book store! ]
Dark City - Film Noir and Fiction - Summaries, reviews and art work for noir films and books.
Meta Description: [ This page features selected noir works
in depth. Here you will find images, plot summaries, cast and crew
credits, and our own reviews of films noir, as well as a guide to noir
fiction. ]
Dr. Noir's Crime Posters - Authentic posters and lobby cards for sale. Provides images, details of the condition, and ordering information.
Film Noir - Descriptions of various sub-genres with synopses of example films to illustrate distinctions.
Film Noir - Overview of the development of film noir and literary noir in postwar America.
Film Noir on TV - TV-Now's full schedule of all the Film Noir playing on television this month.
Meta Description: [ Film Noir Current Month TV Schedule ]
Film Noir Reader - In-depth essays and interviews with filmmakers.
Film Noir: Classic Images - Photos from a wide variety of titles.
Meta Description: [ classic films, screwball comedy, a selected bibliography for many of the most important work on the genre. ]
Kat Black's Film Noir Freebies - Backgrounds and buttons for film noir sites.
MGM Film Noir - A look at three of the studio's films noirs: Desire Me, Keeper of the Flame and A Woman's Face.
Narrative Innovations in Film Noir - A look at one of the most important, and often overlooked, aspects of film noir: the form of the narrative.
Meta Description: [ Narrative Innovations in Film Noir, ]
Noir City - Author Eddie Muller introduces his books on film noir and the people who made the genre great.
Meta Description: [ Noir City 4, San Francisco's Film Noir Festival, Jan. 13-26, presented by the Film Noir Foundation and hosted by Eddie Muller. ]
Reel Movie Critic - Reviews of classic Noir and Neo-noir films.
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The Incredible World of Bowling Noir - An essay by William Preston Robertson on bowling scenes in film noir. Definitely a new twist on things.
The Noir Files - Reviews of vintage and neo-noir films.
Meta Description: [ Lawrence Russell: the Noir Files ]
Top 25 Films Noir - Eric Enders' list of top 25 Noir films.
Top Film-Noir Films - Internet Movie Database users vote for the top fifty all-time Film Noir movies.
Meta Description: [ IMDb ]
What is This Thing Called Film Noir? - Roger Westcombe discusses the dark film, post-war malaise and Noir's spiderweb of fate.
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