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Movie Enthusiast Issue 16: Hats of Film Noir

Movie Enthusiast Issue 16: Hats of Film Noir

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Tim Markatos
Aug 01, 2016
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Film noir is a subgenre built on dependability. The leading men are always world-weary, the dialogue is always snappy, the cinematography is always shadowy, the femmes are always fatales.

This is either good news or bad news. If you happen to like all the above features of noir, then you're in luck: classical Hollywood produced a couple hundred of thi…

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