Best Film Noir Movies of All Time (Combined List)
Film noir is a style or genre of films made in Hollywood in the '40s and '50s that have stylistic and thematic similarities. Specifically, tales of crime and moral ambiguity shot in black & white with high contrast lighting (bright lights and deep black shadows).
Film noir translates from French as “black film,” but that’s misleading because these aren't French films. The term was, however, coined by French critics.
It’s actually German cinematographers and directors like John F. Seitz and Fritz Lang that deserve the most credit for shaping the style. They applied the fundamentals of expressionism to the gritty American crime story, inverting the internal turmoil and anguish of private eyes and volatile gangsters so they’re visible on the surface.
No wonder critics started calling them “black films.”
https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/best-film-noir-movies-of-all-time/
Film noir translates from French as “black film,” but that’s misleading because these aren't French films. The term was, however, coined by French critics.
It’s actually German cinematographers and directors like John F. Seitz and Fritz Lang that deserve the most credit for shaping the style. They applied the fundamentals of expressionism to the gritty American crime story, inverting the internal turmoil and anguish of private eyes and volatile gangsters so they’re visible on the surface.
No wonder critics started calling them “black films.”
https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/best-film-noir-movies-of-all-time/
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