The Lodger x 2
In 1944, John Brahm directed his suspensful period noir, The Lodger, starring the wonderfully silken-voiced Laird Cregar (above left) as a mysterious rooming house guest who may or may not[…]
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Noir’s Positive Animas – The Guardian Angels
In film noir, the anima (a female projection of the male unconscious) often takes the form of a femme fatale, a figure that lures the male protagonist to his doom.[…]
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Overlooked Noir – John Brahm and Let Us Live (1939)
Conventional wisdom tells us that the first “true” film noirs were made in the early 1940s, with 1941’s The Maltese Falcon generally considered “the unofficial beginning of the noir cycle”[…]
