Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light

00:00:01 Here's what film noir is to me.

00:03:06 You know, they fall under the large umbrella of crime films.

00:05:58 Or a war picture that's a noir.

00:08:55 not made in America but made in Germany

00:11:45 in these crime dramas.

00:14:24 which are really quite extraordinary.

00:17:06 And a lot of what film noir is arises out of the aftermath of that crime.

00:19:58 of conveying all this sexuality and greed

00:23:03 So they were, in a strange way, a creation of the distribution system in America.

00:25:58 It's a way of attacking space, because harmonic space is your enemy

00:28:47 shooting films that were being shot in 10 days

00:31:21 tend to be those which are closing in on the character

00:34:05 to sit in this mood and to be a little unsettled

00:36:48 Which is that the films are really very seductive as well

00:39:52 and seductive, at this time, in more of a manipulative way

00:42:54 in modern-day film, is the range of sound that we have

00:45:32 Is this for love, or are you paying me something in money?

00:48:05 "Now let's see you do something really tough

00:50:40 You're talking about a dame's life.

00:53:07 and daring.

00:55:41 Cold like that, only not that clingy.

00:58:14 in terms of popularity and compensation

01:00:42 Somebody to fight off the blizzards and the floods

01:03:45 "They're just crazy."