Cinema Noir

[ratherastory]

Dear flist,

What are your favourite Noir films? Classics that everyone in their right minds should see? Hidden gems that I should know about?

I'm on a Noir kick & want to expand my repertoire.

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[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that. Thank you!

[http://users.livejournal.com/tesserae_/]

You're welcome! I did a talk last year & part of the research involved looking fairly closely at the ways the story was being told in a bunch of films from that era, and I was surprised, to say the least, to see how matter-of-factly some of those early storylines dealt with what we'd call feminist narratives. They took their modernity seriously, at least once in a while...