He became a regular at the Pacific Film Archive, as Tom Luddy, the director of the archive at the time, later remembered: " He was a film noir nut.

# REDIRECT Film noir

Film noir, which was given its name by Nino Frank, is marked by lower production values, darker images, underlighting, location shooting, and general nihilism: this is because, we are told, during the war and post-war years filmmakers were generally more pessimistic ( as well as filmgoers ).

Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations.

Film noir encompasses a range of plots: the central figure may be a private eye ( The Big Sleep ), a plainclothes policeman ( The Big Heat ), an aging boxer ( The Set-Up ), a hapless grifter ( Night and the City ), a law-abiding citizen lured into a life of crime ( Gun Crazy ), or simply a victim of circumstance ( D. O. A .).

" We'd be oversimplifying things in calling film noir oneiric, strange, erotic, ambivalent, and cruel ": this set of attributes constitutes the first of many attempts to define film noir made by 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.

Film noir similarly embraces a variety of genres, from the gangster film to the police procedural to the gothic romance to the social problem picture — any example of which from the 1940s and 1950s, now seen as noir's classical era, was likely to be described as a " melodrama " at the time.

Category: Film noir

Category: Film noir

Category: Film noir

Film critic Nick Schager wrote, " Never was Mike Hammer's name more fitting than in Kiss Me Deadly, Robert Aldrich's blisteringly nihilistic noir in which star Ralph Meeker embodies Mickey Spillane's legendary P. I.

Category: Film noir

Category: Film noir

Category: Film noir

Category: Film noir

Category: Film noir

Time Out Film Guide wrote of the film, " Absolutely assured in her creation of the bleak, noir atmosphere-whether in the claustrophobic confines of the car, or lost in the arid expanses of the desert-Lupino never relaxes the tension for one moment.

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Category: Film noir

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Category: Film noir

Among the major artistic films of this era were La città delle donne, E la nave va, Ginger and Fred by Fellini, L ' albero degli zoccoli by Ermanno Olmi ( winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival ), La notte di San Lorenzo by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Antonioni's Identificazione di una donna, and Bianca and La messa è finita by Nanni Moretti.

Film historian Sumiko Higashi concurs, arguing that Night of the Living Dead was a horror film about the horrors of the Vietnam era.

Film score albums did not really become popular until the LP era, although a few were issued in 78-rpm albums.

Film critic and historian Richard Schickel goes so far as to credit this gritty realism with inspiring “ the likes of Pabst, Stiller, von Sternberg, and others, then re-emerging in the United States in the sound era, in the genre identified as Film Noir ".

This is helped by the use of samples from 1970s television shows and other media prevalent in the era of the brothers ' shared childhood, especially the nature-inspired documentaries produced by the National Film Board of Canada.

" His first picture — made in the silent era — was called " the most famous short film ever made " by critic Roger Ebert, and his last film — made 48 years later — won him Best Director awards from the National Board of Review and the National Society of Film Critics.

" In 1979, she was awarded the Women in film Crystal Award in Los Angeles In 1984, she received an American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award, becoming only the second female recipient ( preceded by Bette Davis in 1977 ), and the only recipient who was a major figure in the silent era.

However, Apple distributed the February 25, 2007 79th Academy Awards nominees for the Animated Shorts, Live Action Shorts and Documentary Shorts as well as half of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival shorts, beginning a new era.

In 2007, Mighty Like a Moose ( 1926 ) was selected for inclusion in the Library of Congress's National Film Registry, solidifying its reputation as one of the most celebrated comedies of the silent era and cementing Chase's status as a pioneer of early film comedy.

An oft quoted influential work of this era, Steven Ziplow's The Film Maker's Guide to Pornography ( 1977 ), states " There are those who believe that the come shot, or, as some refer to it, ' the money shot ', is the most important element in the movie and that everything else ( if necessary ) should be sacrificed at its expense.

Film producers – in an era where producing blockbuster films runs a high risk due to the budgets exceeding $ 200 million – have been distributing small but promising, low-budget films with the hopes of capitalizing on the modern market's film consumption.

" In 1928, just after the era of talkies began, the role of the Second Avenue film row was consolidated by the erection of the terra-cotta-ornamented, art deco Film Exchange Building ( FEB, also known as the Canterbury Building ) designed by Seattle architect Earl W. Morrison ; it covered an entire block on the west side of Second Avenue, from Battery Street to Wall Street.

Immediately south, the block of Second Avenue on the other side of Battery still contains many remnants of the Film Row era.

At the end of the silent-film era, six new sound stages were built ; three of these were sold to the British and Dominions Film Corporation ( see below ) with BIP retaining the remaining stages.

The most recent film of the era is Kadokawa-Daiei Film Co., Ltd .' s Gamera the Brave.

Film critic Roger Ebert praised the film and called it a " small miracle " for its handling of teenage material in an era when movies like Porky's were the norm.

The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre shows how it perpetuates as a codified genre using many of the same tropes used in the studio era that has followed a similar trajectory as that shown by Rick Altman in his landmark study, Film / Genre.

The British Film Institute described it as a " seminal drama series ... a warm, humorous but ultimately tragic look at the way economics affect ordinary people ... TV's most complete dramatic response to the Thatcher era and as a lament to the end of a male, working class British culture.

Bill Warren has written that the film was “ the best and most significant science fiction movie of 1955 … remains a decent, competent example of any era ’ s science fiction output ..” In Phil Hardy ’ s The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Science Fiction the film was described as “ a full-blooded space opera complete with interplanetary warfare and bug-eyed monsters … the film ’ s space operatics are given a dreamlike quality and a moral dimension that makes the dramatic situation far more interesting .” Danny Peary felt the film was " colorful, imaginative, gadget-laden sci-fi.

Robert Niemi, author of History in the Media: Film and Television, stated that Midways " clichéd dialogue " and an overuse of stock footage lead the film to have a " shopworn quality that signalled the end of the heroic era of American-made World War II epics.

Another important company in the early era of Turkish cinema was Kemal Film, a company whose continuous presence as a leading import company has been often overseen for a few local films it produced during the 1920s.