Revenge Films - perspective from Denmark

From: 16-9.dk Apr 25, 2024 by Joachim Smed-Petersen, Josefine Bjerre Lyndgaard & Karen Marie The female avenger exists in countless forms, universes and genres and has been a rapidly developing character especially since the 1970s. We see her as the femme fatale in film noir, we get to know her through the rape revenge genre, and we fall in love with her when, in the 1990s and 2000s, she becomes a celebrated and more common female figure on film. But where is the female avenger today, and ho...

György Fehér’s Twilight, a Hungarian Noir Masterpiece, Gets Restored

Upon completing duties as a debut screenwriter, Friedrich Dürrenmatt celebrated a job well done by promptly rewriting the whole thing. The Swiss playwright and novelist had bent to studio demands and relinquished control of his script, It Happened in Broad Daylight, to Hans Jacoby, a veteran Hollywood writer who knew what studios wanted and gave it to them. Dürrenmatt collaborated with Jacoby and turned in a by-the-numbers detective story where clues lead to the perp and justice was served. B...

Science Fiction Noir - Mystery and Suspense Magazine

a April 12, 2023 Feature Science Fiction Noir How Sci-fi Noir Reflects Current Events Science fiction noir is a sub-genre of science fiction that mixes element...

The Best Modern Noir Movies, Ranked

HomeMovie ListsThe Best Modern Noir Movies, RankedThe Best Modern Noir Movies, RankedBy Rudransh BundelaPublished 2 days agoFrom moody visuals, to somber narratives, here are some of the best modern noir films, ranked. Paramount PicturesFilm noir is a sub-genre of filmmaking that predominantly focuses on stylistic visual elements like the interplay of shadow lighting along with black and white motifs. Film historians believe that noir films have their roots in German expressionist cinematogr...

20best film noirs: From Double Indemnity to Shadow of a Doubt

The phrase film noir was first coined in 1946 by a group of French critics to describe the emerging movement of mainly black and white Hollywood films with dark, pessimistic themes and signature motifs such as alienated antiheroes, rain slicked streets, dark shadows and seductive femme fatales.Borrowing heavily from the hard-boiled but literary detective novels of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, film noir attracted some of cinema’s greatest craftsmen including Orson Welles, Howard Hawk...

Life in Black and White

Louise Beavers (left) and Fredi Washington in Imitation of Life, 1934 (Everett Collection) Emily Bernard, a Scholar contributing editor, is an essayist and the author of three books, most recently Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine, and editor of two others. Her essays have been reprinted in The Best American Essays and The Best Creative Nonfiction. This excerpt comes from her upcoming book, Unfinished Women: Eight Lives, in which sh...

Black and White and Technicolor

Did You See This? Garrett Bradley’s America (2019) We’ll get to this week’s reading in a moment, but first, a couple of programming notes. America (2019), Garrett Bradley’s multichannel video installation incorporating her own films and the recently rediscovered Lime Kiln Club Field Day (1914), the oldest surviving feature-length film with an all-Black cast, opens tomorrow in New York. Talking to Studio Museum in Harlem curators Thelma Golden and Legacy Rus...

Out of Time - and other Sight and Sound clips July 2019

CITIZEN = NIETZSCHE - minus an H

This is a stunning insight. Does KANE maybe mean "Enoch"? Or if we move the H - Enokh? "Nake"(d)? Kean? Acne? Alaska and Nebraska? California and Nebraska? California And the NorthEast? NorthEast Atlantic City No electricity vs alternating current North Eastern Alternating Current K E (?) Alternative News KANE as KANT ? "Her Son; Wellesley" (Side bar for ZTORY) Better yet: N I E T Z S C H E A N Minus the Eye and CHARLES FOSTER KANE As: ? CHARANI STROKER FEEL ARIAN CHARLIE FOSTER KAN...