{"id":1622,"date":"2004-08-31T11:14:46","date_gmt":"2004-08-31T15:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2022-10-09T14:21:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T18:21:09","slug":"film-noir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1622","title":{"rendered":"Film Noir: &#8220;No character can speak authoritatively from a space which is continually being cut into ribbons of light.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagesjournal.com\/issue02\/infocus\/filmnoir.htm\">An extensive essay on the qualities of film noir<\/a>, along with reviews of 10 noir classics:<\/p>\n<p>The Big Heat<br \/>\nThe Big Sleep<br \/>\nThe Big Combo<br \/>\nDouble Indemnity<br \/>\nForce of Evil<br \/>\nGun Crazy<br \/>\nLady from Shanghai<br \/>\nPickup on South Street<br \/>\nShadow of a Doubt<br \/>\nSweet Smell of Success<\/p>\n<p>I particularly liked this quote from Paul Schrader, in an essay he wrote about noir:  &#8220;No character can speak authoritatively from a space which is continually being cut into ribbons of light.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I also completely agree with Martin Scorsese&#8217;s assessment of John Garfield in <i>Force of Evil<\/i> &#8211; that nobody portrayed guilt on the American screen better than Garfield.  Garfield palpitates with guilt (actually, that&#8217;s something he brought to a lot of his work &#8211; like in <i>Postman Always Rings Twice<\/i> &#8211; the dude is tormented).<\/p>\n<p>Noir fans, these are some great reviews.  Check them out.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagesjournal.com\/issue02\/infocus\/addnoirs.htm\">shorter reviews on additional noirs<\/a>.  Very good to see Humphrey Bogart get props for his performance in <i>In a Lonely Place<\/i> which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1051\">I personally think was his best work<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An extensive essay on the qualities of film noir, along with reviews of 10 noir classics: The Big Heat The Big Sleep The Big Combo Double Indemnity Force of Evil Gun Crazy Lady from Shanghai Pickup on South Street Shadow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1622\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178075,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions\/178075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}