Continuing our crime cinema month with a look at a standard 1953 drama that becomes quintessential noir thanks to dialogue, characterisation and visual style.
Tag: film noir
Noirvember: The Murderer Lives At 21
Continuing our crime month with a look at Henri-Georges Clouzot’s lightweight murder mystery shot during the German occupation of France.
Noirvember: Youth Of The Beast
Continuing our crime movie season with a look back at what is perhaps the most outrageously delirious Japanese underworld film ever made.
Noirvember: The Last Seduction
Sex, crime and double-crosses galore in the classic 1994 neo-noir.
Noirvember: The Naked City
Our crime movie series continues with a look at the classic, pioneering police procedural that spawned a popular TV series.
Noirvember: Portrait Of Alison
Continuing our crime movie month with a look at a flawed but interesting film adaptation of a BBC serial from 1955.
Noirvember: Walk A Tightrope
Continuing our crime cinema series with an unexpectedly gritty and twisted British B-movie thriller from the 1960s.
Noirvember: He Ran All The Way
Our crime cinema retrospective continues with a look at one of the most impressive and paranoid thrillers of the 1950s.
Noirvember: The House Across The Lake
A pre-gothic Hammer Films crime melodrama that is better than you might expect.
Noirvember: An Introduction
Setting the scene for our month of Film Noir reviews – and explaining why we are refusing to take a narrow view of just what ‘noir’ is.
The Counter Culture Meets Eighties Neo-Noir – Donald Cammell’s White Of The Eye
The maverick director’s collision of style, slasher and psychedelia remains a seminal moment in American cinema.
Opening The Eyes Below
The new film from the maker of The Woman with Leopard Shoes looks to be an intense, paranoid horror thriller.