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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Nov 7, 2018 22:35:14 GMT
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Post by london777 on Nov 8, 2018 4:07:02 GMT
Thanks, nutty. Although most of them are attractive and artistic, I do not think they generally capture the spirit of Film Noir. Too lush and colorful. The styles would be equally appropriate to films called "Hi-Jinks in Hawaii" or "Romance in Rio". These DVD covers are more like it, but note these were designed once the concept of Film Noir was known. When the original posters were designed there was no such thing. They were just crime stories, melodramas, or whatever.   |
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Post by OldAussie on Nov 8, 2018 4:25:43 GMT
Sweet Smell of Success is my favourite of those - then maybe The Big Heat and Gilda.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Nov 8, 2018 13:36:32 GMT
Noirvember, that's a cool idea. A month of noirs. Maybe I'll do that, currently into watching a bunch of MacConaughey movies.
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Post by london777 on Nov 8, 2018 13:52:00 GMT
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Post by petrolino on Nov 9, 2018 19:25:46 GMT
Thanks nutsberry. I like these film noir posters. 
The one for 'Dark Passage' (1947) leapt out at me.
And a movie I've not heard of, 'City Of Fear' (1959), directed by Irving Lerner.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Nov 9, 2018 19:27:08 GMT
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Post by london777 on Nov 9, 2018 20:46:12 GMT
And a movie I've not heard of, 'City Of Fear' (1959), directed by Irving Lerner.
It is on YouTube in a decent print. It reworks themes from "Kiss Me Deadly" (1955) (the mysterious and deadly sealed container) and "Panic in the Streets" (1950) (the unwitting "carrier" spreading disaster).  The best of his "trilogy" of late, very stripped-down and minimalist Noirs, along with: Murder by Contract (1958) Edge of Fury (1958) He did not direct many movies. A fair bit of TV work, then a seemingly odd choice to direct the film version of Peter Shaffer's hit play "The Royal Hunt of the Sun", in a colorful sun-drenched exotic setting far removed from the dark back-streets of the above movies. |
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