Le plongeon dans la carte des Amants de la Nuit de Nicolas Ray
La carte sur le parebrise dans « Les Amants de la Nuit » de N. Ray /\ The map on the windscreen in N. Ray’s « They live by Night »
Siodmak, The Killers : where are we? / Les Tueurs : où sommes nous?
The Killers (Siodmak,1946) is truly a classic of film noir. The opening scene is famous. Two men are sitting in front of a car driving at high-speed through the night. Then the camera scans the road and a sign shows up in the headlights: Brentwood, New Jersey. And below, in an ironic mode considering what…
He walked by night / Il marchait la nuit – Werker (& Mann)
Many today American TV series are very close to a B-movie from the end of the 40s, He walked by night (1948), directed by Alfred L. Werker (and Anthony Mann (uncredited)). This incredibly modern movie presents all the codes of the detective series and movies (solidarities, widowhood, systematic police track down, suspicion of murderous cop,…
The Hitch-Hiker / Le voyage de la peur – Ida Lupino
The Hitch-Hiker is a film noir directed in 1953 by Ida Lupino. Two men in a car give a man a lift but the hitch-hiker turns out to be a psychopath who kidnaps them. The police tracks the criminal. Several maps are used in this movie. Le voyage de la peur est un film noir…
Detour – Ulmer
In his movie Detour, Edgar G. Ulmer uses some very original « spatial machineries », especially to represent the distance between Al Roberts (Tom Neal) and his fiancée Sue Harvey (Claudia Drake). Dans Detour, Edgar G. Ulmer utilise quelques dispositifs spatiaux très originaux pour matérialiser notamment la distance qui sépare Al Roberts (Tom Neal) de sa fiancée…
(e)space & fiction 