Movie Critic Article: Film Noir
Film Noir: European waves on American shores In 2001 Joel Coen released "The Man Who Wasn't There", his well-received movie which was actually shot in color and then purposely transformed into black and white. Coen was obviously inspired by what was known as the Film Noir, a style (or genre, may be?) that prevailed in the American cinema industry in the forties and was packed with gloomy, mysterious atmospheres and populated by vile, ruthless and/or corrupt characters or otherwise good people crushed by currents of the underworld. Classicly, Film Noir refers to most of the movies produced in the period 1941-1958 and included such memorable movies as 'The Maltese Falcon', 'Citizen kane', 'The lady from Shanghai', 'The Big Heat', 'The Set-up', 'Cape Fear' and 'Scarface'. Among the stars that shone in that period was Orson Welles, Humphrey Bogard, Robert Mitchum, Marlene Deitrich, and Rita Hayworth. But what mea...