There are a lot of familiar elements in classic film noir: heavy use of voiceover, femme fatales, rain-soaked night streets, wrinkled trench coats, and a deep sense of fatalism. Here I also explore the stylized sex and violence and desire for escape, wealth, and possession found in many films of this singular style of cinema.
Films featured:
The Big Heat (1953)
Kiss of Death (1947)
Night and the City (1950)
Kansas City Confidential (1952)
99 River Street (1953)
The Hunted (1948)
The Crooked Way (1949)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Laura (1944)
Blast of Silence (1961)
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
The Big Combo (1955)
Wicked Woman (1953)
Too Late for Tears (1949)
Detour (1945)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Gun Crazy (1950)
Double Indemnity (1944)
One Girl’s Confession (1953)
Deadline at Dawn (1946)
This Gun for Hire (1942)
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