A Level Film Studies

In one of the more gruesome scenes in Drive (2011), Driver (Ryan Gosling) stands in a motel room with blood aggressively streaked acros...

'Double Indemnity' (1944) Roger Ebert / January 30, 1995 Film noir is . . . 1. A French term meaning "black film,...

"All movies express social values, or the erosion of these values, through the ways in which they depict both institutions and rel...

Here is a new indie film noir,  Trouble is My Business , that harkens back to the 1940s, with a thriller-mystery scenario about a gumsh...

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The Basics of Lighting for Film Noir from FilmmakerIQ.com on Vimeo .

'The Postman Always Knocks Twice' (1946) A dark city street bathed in shadows. A seedy office with “Investigations” stenciled ...

'Double Indemnity' (1944) Roger Ebert / January 30, 1995 Film noir is . . . 1. A French term meaning "black film,...

Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas , particularly those that emphasize cynical att...

There is now a page below the blog heading with links to many useful Film Studies on-line books.  You will find it beneficial to br...

This blog has distilled movie poster design into 13 categories. Despite the lighthearted approach and overwhelming generalisations of the c...

A video essay on how Fritz Lang's M is viewed as the prototype for the film noir genre.