Word: noire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Confidentially Yours looks at first like Fransis Truffaut's nostalgic tribute to that signature genre of the 1940s, the film noir. It figures, as Bogie might say in one of those murky oldies. After all, it was the French who named the style, and Truffaut is a director with an affectionate regard for the movies' past glories and a flair for paying them homage...
...Church and colleagues began marketing wines in 1969 as Associated Vintners, now the state's fourth biggest winery. Associated is noted for its bone dry '80 Gewürztraminer and, in an area best suited to cool-climate white varietals, a robust '78 Pinot Noir. Hinzerling Vineyards, owned by Mike and Jerry Wallace, won a silver medal last year with its '78 Cabernet Sauvignon...
...less operatic scale, however, he is convincing. Perhaps the best work in the show is Pressure, 1982-83: the white face of a worried, singlet-clad mime in the lower half and, above it, the cold, oppressive ziggurat of an art deco-style New York building. The film noir dramatics of Longo's work are tuned down, and a subtler pathos comes through, the surprise being that Longo was able to extract it from such obvious cliches as the Urban Clown and the Faceless Skyscraper...
...streets. And a man of honor in a world of thieves. French Writer-Director Jean-Pierre Melville's drama of a gambler down on his luck took 27 years to arrive in the U.S.; it is a classic example of the dark, doom-dripping genre known as film noir...
...wonderful cinematography serves as a visual stylization of Bob's world, containing as it does echoes of film noir as well as its own peculiar vision of Paris in the '50s. One of the most memorable shots is of the contrast in the still landscape of Montmartre at night. In the pitch black lower part of the frame only the sharply etched neon nightclub sign. "Pigalle," stands out, while above the dome of the Sacre Coeur cathedral is silhouetted against the mist. The music reinforces the fundamental contrast inherent in the film. It is magically distant and redolent of both...