Cinematic Cities: Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Category: Noir Cities
Cinematic Cities: Skyscraper Souls (1932)
A Cinematic City: Skyscraper Souls (MGM 1932) directed by Edgar Swlwynand art direction by Cedric Gibbons …………………………………………………………………………………………………….. ……
Skyscraper Souls (MGM 1932): Directed by Edgar Selwyn | Art Direction by Cedric Gibbons
Manhattan Metropolis: Manhattan (1921)
From Paul Strand’s 10min documentary short film Manhatta (1921)… View Paul Strand’s 10min documentary short film Manhatta (1921) here…
View Paul Strand’s 10min documentary short film Manhatta (1921) here.
For Real: Manhattan Tenement 1942
Store fronts below brick tenement (1942): Charles W. Cushman Photography Collection / Indiana University Archives
Cinematic Cities: Paramount Studios, Astoria, Queens, New York City 1931
City Streets (1931) Speakeasy delivery convoy…
Director – Rouben Mamoulian | Cinematography – Lee Garmes
Cities Have Lost Their Poetry
Thirty years ago in my late 20s on many lonely cold winter nights I walked the desolate streets of the city fringe… down narrow sparsely-lit alleys
Thirty years ago in my late 20s on many lonely cold winter nights I walked the desolate streets of the city fringe. Down narrow sparsely-lit alleys with dark dirty store-fronts, ominous warehouses, and desperate characters. A salty dampness and the silhouettes of sea-faring hulks on Sydney harbor drawing me into an enveloping angst. There was mystery, an aching feeling of some unfathomable loss, of poetry.
Today those streets are bright, lined with trendy restaurants, exclusive warehouse conversions, soul-less showrooms for funky furniture, and expensive cars. No mystery, no angst, and no poetry.
Cinematic Cities: Mexico City Noir 1949
Salón México (1949) Nylons, high heels, and dark alleys… Director – Emilio Fernández | Cinematography – Gabriel Figueroa
Salón México (1949)
Nylons, high heels, and dark alleys…
Director – Emilio Fernández | Cinematography – Gabriel Figueroa
New York City Noir: The concrete jungle
“New York City. An architectural jungle where fabulous wealth…
and the deepest squalor live side by side.
New York, the busiest, the loneliest, the kindest and the cruelest of cities.”
– Voice-over after opening credits Side Street (1950)
Side Street (1950)
Director – Anthony Mann
DP – Joseph Ruttenberg
Story & Screenplay – Sydney Boehm
A tight and savvy noir exploring the claustrophobic canyons of New York ending with an ironically appropriate ‘crash’ on Wall Street.
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The Noir City: Underworld
Abraham Polonsky’s and Ira Wolfert’s screenplay for Force of Evil (1948) was based on Wolfert’s 1943 novel ‘Tucker’s People’ (aka ‘The Underworld’). I have been unable to find an attribution for this brilliant cover.
Noir City 1929: God’s Man
From Lynd Ward’s woodcut graphic novel God’s Man (1929)
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