If it’s difficult for female directors in Hollywood now, it was almost impossible in the…
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Delmer Daves’s 1947 noir Dark Passage is like a complex lucid dream. It’s both stylish…
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Michael Gordon’s The Secret of Convict Lake cannot live up to its title, which sounds…
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I know I’ve spent this whole series trying to prove that the Dark Age of…
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Fritz Lang’s The Blue Gardenia feels like film noir poured into a Hays Code corset…
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Devil in a Blue Dress is now on Tubi, allowing me to finish off my…
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Kirk Douglas’s Chuck Tatum tells us who he is as soon as he barges into…
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Ida Lupino’s minimalist noir film The Hitch-Hiker may come to us through some fault in…
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“People don’t talk to me like that!” In both 1946 Raymond Chandler adaptations, a woman…
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Film noir! The genre of femme fatales, moral ambiguity, doomed antiheroes. Stories where one bad…
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