film noir
I recently watched John Farrow's 1948 film The Big Clock, adapted from the Kenneth Fearing novel, and starring Ray Milland and Charles Laughton. I'd read the novel some years ago,.
I'm on a run of movies from the last five years or so, trying to catch up on the many I have missed. In fact, partly due to my love.
One of the great women of film noir has passed. She's perhaps best known for her work in Lady in the Lake, which is famous primarily for being shot entirely from the perspective of Robert Montgomery as Philip Marlowe. It's a gimmick and it doesn't...