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Category: Frames Gallery
Shooting the Past (BBC TV – 1999): Inside the Frame
Does an image contain a story? Or is it an instant in chaos that has no more substances than the crystals fixed on fading paper or in the pixels that exist only as long as an electric current flows?
Is a photograph ever true or real?
Does an image contain a story? Or is it an instant in chaos that has no more substance than the crystals fixed on fading paper or in the pixels that exist only as long as an electric current flows?
Does it have no more substance than the viewer? Is it a memory? Or is it simply a crack in the future past of some cosmic consciousness?
Film Noir Origins: Angels Over Broadway (1940)
Film Noir Origins: Angels Over Broadway (1940) Directors Ben Hecht & Lee Garmes | DP Lee Garmes | Art Director Lionel Banks…
Angels Over Broadway (1940) Directors Ben Hecht & Lee Garmes | DP Lee Garmes | Art Director Lionel Banks
Film Noir Origins: Métropolitain (France 1939)
Film Noir Origins: Métropolitain (France 1939) Director Maurice Cam | DP’s Nicolas Hayer, Pierre Méré, and Marcel Villet… …
Métropolitain (France 1939) Director Maurice Cam | DP’s Nicolas Hayer, Pierre Méré, and Marcel Villet
Film Noir Origins: Private Detective 62 (1933)
Film Noir Origins: Private Detective 62 (Warner Bros. 1933) Director Michael Curtiz | DP Tony Gaudio | Art Director Jack Okey…
Private Detective 62 (Warner Bros. 1933) Director Michael Curtiz | DP Tony Gaudio | Art Director Jack Okey
Film Noir Origins: Paid (1930)
Film Noir Origins: Paid (1930) – Director Sam Wood | DP Charles Rosher | Art Director Cedric Gibbons….
Paid (1930) Director Sam Wood | DP Charles Rosher | Art Director Cedric Gibbons
Noir Poetica: The Art of the B-Movie
Hollywood b-movies are a treasure trove of haunting images as arresting and poetic as any in cinema. Check out the slideshow of magic scenes from classic b-noirs…
Hollywood b-movies are a treasure trove of haunting images as arresting and poetic as any in cinema.
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At the Speed of Noir: Dames in Cars
Dark roads, desperate dames, and hoodlum cars…
Insolent Femmes (1938-1946): Chiaroscuro Vamps
GEORGE HURRELL (American, 1904-1992):
Greta Garbot Anna Mae Wong Hedy Lamarr
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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