Film Noir

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Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious: How to Create Drama from Internal Conflict and Ironic Suspense

To stop a Nazi plot, an American agent pimps the woman he loves to a dangerous Nazi. This is the…

6 years ago
  • How They Did It

How They Did It: Tips on Recreating Period, VFX, and Big Action on a Low Budget From the Director of Gangster Land

“A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movie that you didn’t intend to be there.” This…

6 years ago
  • Acting

Marsha Hunt at 100: The Actress Recalls the Blacklist, Film Noir and Being Cast in Gone With The Wind

As Marsha Hunt's 100th birthday approaches (she hits the century mark October 17), it's time to celebrate an actress who,…

7 years ago
  • Criterion Crash Course

Criterion Crash Course: Moviemaking Lessons from Criterion’s Blood Simple

Whether you’re a moviemaker, critic or devoted film collector, lovers of cinema can all agree: A Criterion Collection release is…

8 years ago
  • Screenwriting

First Draft: Lessons in Plotting Film Noir, From The Big Sleep, The Big Lebowski and The Nice Guys

In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, "First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. The Nice Guys follows private…

8 years ago
  • Book Reviews

Book Review: Into The Dark: The Hidden World of Film Noir, 1941-1950 by Mark A. Vieira

Bursting with glossy stills and archival material, film historian and photographer Mark A. Vieira’s Into The Dark: The Hidden World…

8 years ago
  • Directing

Film Me, Cheaply; Kill Me, Deadly: How I Made a Low-Budget 1940s-Style Film Noir

How do you shoot a realistic-looking 1940s-period film noir on a low budget? Back in the fall of 2010, we…

8 years ago
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Edward Dmytryk, Odd Man Out

Prior to the days when movies were amalgams of past movies, the clash between genre and auteur, between the classic…

28 years ago