The past several years have seen a resurgence in interest in the Film Noir genre, not just in recreations via a host of films, but in the classics that started it all. That interest has spawned a series of releases on DVD, and The Film Noir Classic Collection Vol. 5 is filled with treats. You might expect that we would be reaching by the time we got to the fifth installment, a set with eight … [Read more...]
Dark City remains both brilliant and undiscovered... despite talk of Alex Proyas, or at least someone, making Dark City 2. If you have any sort of love of art (and everyone does in some way or other... don't they?), you will occasionally come across something that, quite simply, speaks to you. Something whose 'goodness' actually transcends its own 'goodness', and defies proper … [Read more...]
There is a growing movement in recent times, which, since to my knowledge it hasn’t been especially analyzed, I’m going to now dub post-post-noir. Post-noir has actually been rather analyzed, and is generally regarded as the movies which ‘approximated’ film noir and were released in the 60's and 70's. Since the film noir era itself would be before that (I worked that out myself), that … [Read more...]
