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Gilda
Posted by Notcot on May 18, 2010 in Noir
Rethinking the Femme Fatale in Film Noir: Ready for Her Close-Up
Posted by Notcot on May 18, 2010 in Noir
Spider-Man Noir Premiere HC
Posted by Notcot on May 18, 2010 in Noir
Chinatown
Posted by Notcot on May 18, 2010 in Noir
Amazon.co.uk Review
Roman Polanski’s brooding film noir exposes the darkest side of the land of sunshine, the Los Angeles of the 1930s, where power is the only currency–and the only real thing worth buying. Jack Nicholson is J J Gittes, a private eye in the Chandler mould, who during a routine straying-spouse investigation finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into a jigsaw puzzle of clues and corruption. The glamorous Evelyn Mulwray (a dazzling Faye Dunaway) and her titanic father, Noah Cross (John Huston), are at the black-hole centre of this tale of treachery, incest and political bribery. The crackling, hard-bitten script by Robert Towne won a well-deserved Oscar, and the muted colour cinematography makes the goings-on seem both bleak and impossibly vibrant. Polanski himself has a brief, memorable cameo as the thug who tangles with Nicholson’s nose. Chinatown is one of the greatest, most completely satisfying crime films of all time. –Anne HurleyAmazon.co.uk Review
Roman Polanski’s brooding film noir exposes the darkest side of the land of sunshine, the Los Angeles of the 1930s, where power is the only currency–and the only real thing worth buying. Jack Nicholson is JJ Gittes, a private eye in the Chandler mould, who during a routine straying-spouse investigation finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into a jigsaw puzzle of clues and corruption. The glamorous Evelyn Mulwray (a dazzling Faye Dunaway) and her titanic father, Noah Cross (John Huston), are at the black-hole centre of this tale of treachery, incest, and political bribery. The crackling, hard-bitten script by Robert Towne won a well-deserved Oscar, and the muted colour cinematography makes the goings-on seem both bleak and impossibly vibrant. Polanski himself has a brief, memorable cameo as the thug who tangles with Nicholson’s nose. One of the greatest, most completely satisfying crime films of all time. –Anne Hurley, Amazon.com
The Film Noir Collection – Guest In The House
Posted by Notcot on May 18, 2010 in Noir
Iron Man Noir Premiere HC
Posted by Notcot on May 17, 2010 in Noir
Cuba and Angola: Response to the South African Escalation
Posted by Notcot on Apr 25, 2010 in Noir
A study of the work of Vladimir Nabokov in the context of contemporary American fiction and film
Posted by Notcot on Apr 25, 2010 in Noir
Tech-Noir Films, 1970-2005: An Annotated Filmography
Posted by Notcot on Apr 25, 2010 in Noir
