Dennis Hopper explaining noir while smoking? Cinema studies just got dangerously cool.
One of the first film noir documentaries, made for British Channel Four, and including interviews with Paul Schrader, Robert Wise, John Dahl, Bryan Singer, Edward Dmytryk, Dennis Hopper, John Alton.
Direction
Paul Joyce weaves six decades of shadows into coherent obsession
Cinematography
John Alton literally wrote the book on lighting crime
Director
Paul Joyce
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made in 1995, this arrived just as neo-noir peaked with Pulp Fiction and The Last Seduction—basically a funeral and birth announcement simultaneously.
Edward Dmytryk was one of the Hollywood Ten blacklisted in 1947; his participation here is itself a noir plot of survival and return.
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