Word: noirs
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...French site. Six best-selling music books on the French version of Amazon are Piaf titles. At least five books on or by Piaf were published last month, and more are on the way. Paris' prestigious Marigny Theater is reprising the hit play Piaf, une Vie en Rose et Noir to near-capacity crowds. Considering Piaf's popularity abroad - which other French singer can shift 75,000 copies of their greatest hits in South Korea? - this comeback looks set to be more than just a Gallic phenomenon. Dahan's film is rolling out across Europe...
...term “cinema” is an appropriate one. As the films at the HFA demonstrate, the cultural anxieties of the Cold War did not confine themselves to a single genre. The semi-documentary “Panic in the Streets” (Elia Kazan, 1950), the noir masterpiece “The Third Man” (Carol Reed, 1949), and the low-budget sci-fi romp “Rocketship X-M” (Kurt Neumann, 1950), are equally suffused with dread, uncertainty, and black humor...
...mixture of wit and worry. As the Los Angeles Police chase down an escaped convict who has accidentally stolen a cylinder of radioactive Cobalt-60 (he thinks it’s heroin), debate rages as to whether the public should be informed. Though it’s hard-bitten noir with a fierce political edge, the emotional climate of “City of Fear” is distinctly oppressive. Even the roadside billboards seem to be watching...
...result, under the guidance of Bernbaum Professor of Literature Leo Damrosch, was a creative thesis titled “’If Answerable Style I Can Obtain...’: An Analysis and Account of Illustrating Paradise Lost” — a film noir-style graphic rethinking of John Milton’s classic poem, which won Chiang a summa cum laude reading and a Hoopes Prize. Damrosch remembers Chiang as one of his all-time favorite students because of his “no bullshit” attitude and self-confidence, he says. Not knowing...
...Wilder had his first commercial success with the comedy “Ninotchka,” a film that garnered his first Academy Award nomination and starred Greta Garbo. Wilder is credited with pioneering the genre of film noir with “Double Indemnity,” a 1944 collaboration with vaunted noir novelist Raymond Chandler...