This is news to me…. a 1981 remake of “Double Indemnity.” Read how the 1981 “Body Heat,” with William Hurt and Kathleen Turner used shadows, lighting , femme fatal, schnook and all to give the full film noir effect. Supposedly the “best film noir ever.” Read it here

Round up the usual film noir suspects: melancholy, alienation, bleakness, disillusionment, disenchantment, pessimism, ambiguity, moral corruption, evil, guilt, desperation and paranoia. Film History Snippet: Film noir developed during and after World War II. After the war, an ambiance of anxiety, paranoia, suspicion, lingered in society. Soldiers, businessmen, factory workers, housewives were disillusioned. Film Noir reflected these...

Round Up The Usual Suspects Round up the usual film noir suspects: melancholy, alienation, bleakness, disillusionment, disenchantment, pessimism, ambiguity, moral corruption, evil, guilt, desperation and paranoia. Film History Snippet: Film noir developed during and after World War II. After the war an ambience of anxiety, paranoia, suspicion, lingered in society. Soldiers, businessmen, factory workers, housewives were disillusioned....

Here is a youtube parody of the classic film noir Double Indemnity. I wanted to make you hopeless “glued to the tube” movie buffs laugh this Friday!  “I think you’re swell… so long as I’m not your husband.” Remember this line? How can you not? Out of all the classic film noirs I love, I have to say that Double Indemnity is my absolute favorite. Anytime someone mentions Film Noir, I immediately...

Recently Hollywood has released two films that are film “noir-ish.” Hollywoodland, and The Black Dahlia both movies loosely inspired by true events. Both movies are set in LA—film noir capital. This is where you’d expect a story that is “dark” and “foreboding” to take place. Hollywoodland which its director calls the “nouveau noir,” is about the great mystery behind–George...

The Town Players of Newtown are attempting to do what many theater companies have tried in vain to do — re-create on stage the heady romanticism of the 1944 film noir “Laura.” It’s not an easy task. Film noir utilizes two elements of drama that are generally contrary to stage technique shadows and silence. In films, what we don’t see clearly, or is said indirectly, can be both menacing and intriguing; on...