French film noir

P.s. I do miss smoking.

. This List Is A Construction Zone – The Work Is Ongoing; Please Pardon Our Dust And Wear Your Hard Hat: . [If Film Noir were a painting it would be Edward Hopper’s ‘Nighthawks’.] . The very first movie I ever saw that one could categorize as Film Noir was likely ‘Sorry, Wrong Number’. I saw it when I was quite young, probably on television’s The Late Show, or something like that. I remember it scared me pretty good. . Some years later I made it a point to see Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Strangers…

Film Noir photos

What is Film Noir? It is a term coined in French, meaning literally ‘black film’ that is used to define a genre, or possibly just a subset of the genre

An astounding silent film that will leave you speechlessIf you haven’t yet seen it, I can guarantee you’ve never seen a film like “Sunrise”. Astounding in its visuals and staggering in its emotion, it is no wonder this film about love and the bonds of marriage versus sex and desire has sometimes been called the greatest film ever made (the influential French magazine, Cahiers du cinéma, lists it as the fourth greatest film of all-time). Directed by F.W. Murnau, one of the masters of silent…

Fanny Ardant in The Woman Next Door (1981)