Tag: film noir
No Daylight for the Scheming: Night and the City
While the U.S. was riding “high” off the post-war economic boom in 1950, some Americans chose to stay behind in Europe (though most are aware [Read More…]
When Angela Lansbury as Nancy Oliver Stole the Show in Gaslight
While Angela Lansbury might not have experienced her true career “high” until Murder, She Wrote (and also, well, being the voice of Mrs. Potts in [Read More…]
Post-2020, Agoraphobics Are The New Empathetic Character: The Woman in the Window
Like Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 classic that makes for such an obvious comparison to The Woman in the Window, the latter Amy Adams-starring “slow [Read More…]
There’s Only One Way to Release Guilt in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
What is it to want love so badly you’ll go to obscene, self-destructive lengths to get it? Martha Ivers (Janis Wilson/Barbara Stanwyck)–who frequently expresses a [Read More…]
Phyllis Thinks She’s Hot Shit Because She’s A Sociopath, Or: Double Indemnity & The Two-Dimensional Femme Fatale
Billy Wilder wasn’t exactly known for creating complex female characters, more predisposed instead to focusing on his male heroes and/or their buddy dynamic (which was [Read More…]
In A Lonely Place: Like a Prophetic Biopic of Madonna & Sean Penn
When most people talk about Nicholas Ray’s rendering of In A Lonely Place, they like to preface it with how dark and tragic the story [Read More…]
