Hopperesque

Hopperesque

Monday, 20 May 2013

Light Enters


         Light enters the dingy rooms of Film Noir in such odd shapes - jagged trapezoids, obtuse triangles, vertical slits - that one suspects the windows were cut out with a pen knife. No character can speak authoritatively from a space which is being continually cut into ribbons of light.

Notes on Film Noir
Paul Schrader
1972

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Border Incident
1949

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