Film Noir Review: Night And The City (1950)

Soundtracked by the echoing footsteps of its desperate protagonist, Night and The City is Jules Dassin’s masterpiece.

March 27, 2023

Blood Money (1933): Pre-Code Noir Review

Derided by censors upon its release in 1933, Blood Money was one of Hollywood’s final pre-code films.

4 years after Metropolis, Austrian-born Fritz Lang directed his expressionistic suspense film, “M.”

Published in 1952, The Killer Inside Me marked Jim Thompson’s bold return to fiction after a brief stint as a journalist.

When their illegal poker operation is robbed by a pair of amateurs, the mob goes into crisis mode.

Middling novelist Rollo Martins arrives in partitioned Vienna to accept a nebulous job offer from his boyhood friend, Harry Lime.

Tamar Rabinyan is a rookie Mossad agent charged with infiltrating the computer network of an Iranian power plant.

Born in the inter-war period, Film Noir often concerns itself with themes like surveillance, voyeurism and identity.

Released to widespread critical acclaim, Thief laid the course for Michael Mann’s brilliant directorial career.

4 years prior to the groundbreaking No Way Out, Joseph L. Mankiewicz directed Somewhere In The Night.