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4 days ago · Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward mark the beginning of what they term “the noir cycle” with The Maltese Falcon in 1941. But many other writers choose Stranger on the Third Floor as the beginning of the genre that would dominate the 1940s.
3 days ago · Alain Silver, the most widely published American critic specializing in film noir studies, refers to film noir as a "cycle" and a "phenomenon", even as he argues that it has—like certain genres—a consistent set of visual and thematic codes.
4 days ago · Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward mark the beginning of what they term “the noir cycle” with The Maltese Falcon in 1941. But many other writers choose Stranger on the Third Floor as the beginning of the genre that would dominate the 1940s.
5 days ago · A great example of what makes a noir film noir, Act of Violence is a postwar revenge story that doesn’t involve private detectives, organized crime or massive conspiracies. Instead, an ‘upwardly mobile’ new family looking forward to living the Good Life is destroyed from within by a dark secret.
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1 day ago · Antoine Griezmann [5] was born on 21 March 1991 [6] in the commune of Mâcon in the department of Saône-et-Loire. His father Alain Griezmann, a town councillor, [7] is from a family who migrated to France from Münster, Germany, in the first half of the 19th century. [8] [9] The family surname was originally spelled "Griesmann", before being ...
6 days ago · Film noir has been understood as a genre exclusive to Hollywood. But classical US noir's downbeat sensibility also finds expression in later films from Japan, South Korea and China (including Hong Kong) and Taiwan, that have both participated in and been excluded from circuits of global-noir traffic, past and present.
