“The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema; the only thing they lacked was the sound of people talking and the noises. But this slight imperfection did not warrant the major changes that sound brought in. In Many of the films now being made, there is very little cinema. They are mostly what I […]
Author: Truman Hopper
- Features
- ...
The 20 Most Visually Stunning American Noir Films Ever
Film Noir as appointed by many sources is a film sub-genre that first developed in the United States as a fruit of many influences, first and foremost, German Expressionism and its filmmakers that fled Germany (amidst the rise of Nazism) to come to America, filmmakers such as Fritz Lang. However, French poetic realism was also […]
- Features
- ...
The 23 Best French Noir Films of All Time
During the period of German occupation that went from 1940 to 1944, French cinema took various shapes and paths – from the sophisticated historical films of Claude Autant-Lara (for instance, 1943’s production of “Douce”), to anti-war drama films (which has its best examples in later works from the 1950s such as 1952’s “Jeux Interdits” or […]
- Features
- ...
4 Reasons Why “Double Indemnity” Is The Best Film Noir Ever
“Office memorandum, Walter Neff to Barton Keyes, Claims Manager. Los Angeles, July 16th, 1938. Dear Keyes: I suppose you’ll call this a confession when you hear it. I don’t like the word confession. I just want to set you right about one thing you couldn’t see, because it was smack up against your nose.” “You […]
- Features
- ...
6 Reasons Why Billy Wilder Was Considered America’s Best
Nicknamed after Buffalo Bill by his mother, Samuel Wilder was born in the Austro-Hungarian village of Sucha (nowadays part of Poland) in 1906. As a young man, Wilder tried to fulfil his parents’ aspirations by enrolling in the University of Vienna to study law, which he quickly left. He got a job in a major […]
- Features
- ...
8 Reasons Why Alfred Hitchcock Is The Definition of a Film Director
So, Alfred Hitchcock. When it comes to this subject, much is there to be said and written about the director’s many great and influential works, however, the most important element to answer in this article is: Alfred Hitchcock still remains today a top influential film director and the most popular of golden era filmmakers among […]