TCM 'Noir Alley' host Eddie Muller, an expert on the subject, is in Chicago to introduce some of the films.
James Stewart, left, with Richard Conte and unidentified actors playing Chicago cops, in"Call Northside 777."The 2023 edition of Noir City Chicago, the annual celebration of mean streets and what the French call “” gathers a week’s worth of cinematic crime, passion, punishment and extreme shadows for screenings of 18 films, mostly on 35mm film, at the Music Box Theatre.a genre.
A: I’ve settled on defining it as Hollywood’s only organic artistic movement. That’s the way I look at it. There’s no reason for these movies to look and feel and sound the way they do, other than the artists themselves who made that happen. Just like Impressionism was a movement, and Expressionism was a movement, noir was a cinematic movement.Q: You put it this way in one interview: “Give the critic Nino Frank credit for coining ‘film noir’ as early as 1946.
A: Well, I think its important to consider the contribution of all the artists involved. From a writing standpoint, by the 1940s you could actually create movies in which the protagonists were the bad guys, more or less. “Double Indemnity.” “The Suspect.” The protagonist is plotting to commit murder.
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