Film Noir

  • Film Noir – Hitchcock’s Rear Window vs Nolan’s Dark Knight: Two Noir Masterpieces Fifty Years apart

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    February 16, 2017 11:23
    When we think of film noir, we reflect on Hollywood’s crime mysteries from the 1940s such as Citizen Kane and The Third Man. However, this enigmatic genre that originates from German Expressionist Cinematography has never left Hollywood, it has only evolved throughout the decades. Film Noir’s main elements revolve...

  • Rewind Review – The Lady From Shanghai

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    August 11, 2015 12:40
    Orson Welles was weighty. I think that’s universally agreed. Influence-wise, in terms of mythologising and the shadow cast over subsequent Hollywood studio artistry, for sure. Corporeally also, later in life. But additionally in content; often lean in running time, Welles pictures nevertheless feel monolithic. Sometimes for the technical bravura...

  • Film Review – Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

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    August 31, 2014 18:37
    Foregrounded in the decrepit decor of Basin City basks bludgeoned beauty, thirstful revenge and unjust corruption. The gritty city streets can uncage even the humblest of inhabitants, though who’ll allow themselves to lose control? Which of them will truly let the monster out? Sin City: A Dame to Kill...

  • Scrapbook – Neo-noir Films

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    August 25, 2014 14:33
    As Sin City: A Dame to Kill For storms style first into UK theatres, our writers recognise some of the finest films of neo-noir cinema. Blade Runner   The archetypal neo-noir, Ridley Scott’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is extremely prescient. 32 years after...