Tag Archives: film noir

by | March 30, 2012

Link Dump: #63

Following up last week’s Jean Vigo kitty, we have one from Vigo’s short À propos de Nice. It’s just sitting by a sewer grate in Nice, when all of a sudden, there’s Jean Vigo and Boris Kaufman! And now it’s immortalized … Continue reading →

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by | February 21, 2012

Hate and Anger

You were born with hate and anger built in. Took a slap on the backside to blast out the scream. And then you knew you were alive! Lionel Stander growls these words in the opening minutes of Blast of Silence (1961) as … Continue reading →

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by | September 29, 2011

One Against All

By Andreas Two very different movies, a western and a film noir, blossomed from the paranoia of the early 1950s with identical scenarios. In each film, a lone lawman sees an Absolute Evil that he’s morally compelled to fight. (In … Continue reading →

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by | September 18, 2011

Disney Revisited: Pinocchio

By Andreas Some thoughts after rewatching Pinocchio… The contrasts with Snow White are obvious: whereas Disney’s first feature film was streamlined, mythical, and monumental, Pinocchio is much more episodic, incidental, and detail-oriented. Snow White dealt in broad fairy tale archetypes; … Continue reading →

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by | July 5, 2011

Quiet Footsteps

I can’t believe Richard Fleischer’s grim noir Follow Me Quietly (1949) doesn’t get more attention. It’s a mind-of-the-killer police procedural in the same mold as Manhunter (1986), following policeman Harry Grant (William Lundigan) and his obsession with a serial killer … Continue reading →

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