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Of several recent books on film noir, this one is the least academic. Muller is clearly a fan and relishes the opportunity to hang out with a few of his favorite lost souls from what he calls Dark City. The book is organized around the city motif, with chapters devoted to various thematic neighborhoods, for example, "The Precinct" (cop flicks) and "Vixenville" (femme fatales). This metaphor seems a bit labored at times, and Muller's plot summaries tend to run on, but otherwise film noir fans will have plenty to enjoy here. The illustrations, mostly stills, are first rate, and the mix of biographical, historical, and critical material works well. Background on such vintage noir actors as Robert Ryan, Richard Widmark, and, of course, Robert Mitchum is usually fresh and pertinent, and the insider gossip about life in the studios adds some zip. Nicholas Christopher's Somewhere in the Night remains the best critical study, but this more-browsable volume provides an entertaining all-around introduction to the genre. Bill Ott
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"The best book ever written on film noir."--"Mystery Scene"
"Eddie Muller seriously takes film noir not too seriously--just the right mix, and with great stills."--Paul Schrader
""Dark City" is a thoroughly enjoyable companion to the unique, sometimes twisted pleasures of film noir, from acknowledged classics like "Out of the Past" to lesser-known gems like "Born to Kill" and "The Chase". In a genre where some see mostly fatalism and social critique, Eddie Muller also finds humor, eroticism, and the unfettered inventiveness of an extraordinary generation of directors and actors."--Geoffrey O'Brien, author of "The Phantom Empire"
"This ultimate companion to gritty black-and-white postwar classics reveals that the dark stars led desperate, nefarious lives both on-screen and off."--"Details"
"Even if you aren't a film buff, you'll probably find "Dark City" compelling. . . . Muller's plot summaries and insider accoutns of moviemaking are fitting companions to the brooding images that accompany them."--the "Washington Post"
"A pictorial anthology on the American existentialist crime movie . . . rich in background anecdotes and the argot of the genre."--"San Francisco Examiner"
"Dig it: Eddie Muller's "Dark City" is a righteous, rip-snorting riff on the ultimate cinematic genre--film noir. This book displays a salutary knowledge of the underpinnings of the genre; serves as a fabulous reference book; and most importantly, dishes the real life dirt on the freaks, geeks, commies, nymphos, hopheads, has-beens, red-baiters, and all-purpose fiends who made this genre great."--James Ellroy
"Eddie Muller seriously takes film noir not too seriously--just the right mix, and with great stills."--Paul Schrader
""Dark City" is a thoroughly enjoyable companion to the unique, sometimes twisted pleasures of film noir, from acknowledged classics like "Out of the Past" to lesser-known gems like "Born to Kill" and "The Chase". In a genre where some see mostly fatalism and social critique, Eddie Muller also finds humor, eroticism, and the unfettered inventiveness of an extraordinary generation of directors and actors."--Geoffrey O'Brien, author of "The Phantom Empire"
"This ultimate companion to gritty black-and-white postwar classics reveals that the dark stars led desperate, nefarious lives both on-screen and off."--"Details"
"Even if you aren't a film buff, you'll probably find "Dark City" compelling. . . . Muller's plot summaries and insider accoutns of moviemaking are fitting companions to the brooding images that accompany them."--the "Washington Post"
"A pictorial anthology on the American existentialist crime movie . . . rich in background anecdotes and the argot of the genre."--"San Francisco Examiner"
"Dig it: Eddie Muller's "Dark City" is a righteous, rip-snorting riff on the ultimate cinematic genre--film noir. This book displays a salutary knowledge of the underpinnings of the genre; serves as a fabulous reference book; and most importantly, dishes the real life dirt on the freaks, geeks, commies, nymphos, hopheads, has-beens, red-baiters, and all-purpose fiends who made this genre great."--James Ellroy
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Eddie Muller's noir compilation, Dark City is one of the finest books ever written about American cinema. The pages are filled with descriptive images that embody the essence of the greatest chapter in Hollywood film making- noir. If jazz is America's cultural contribution to music,then American film noir stands as the pinnacle contribution to the medium of motion pictures. Muller's book, Dark City is an enlightening testament to the creative genius of directors, actors, actresses, and cinematographers associated with the creation of noir film making. Muller explores over one hundred of these dark films with interesting insights about the themes, scripts, lighting, and camera work that marked so many of them as classics. Muller cleverly divides the book's chapters into separate realms, where the danger of noir themes often thrived. The chapter "The Precinct" features expositions on Detective Story, Where The Sidewalk Ends, and On Dangerous Ground. "Shamus Flats", a section devoted to private investigators, critiques films such as: The Maltese Falcon and Out of the Past. These and other chapters are augmented with captivating black and white stills. Photographs of actors and actresses on lobby cards, movie posters, and frame shots adorn every page. What differentiates Dark City from other literary works written about cimema, is Muller's chilling and revelatory research on the private lives of the people marked by noir. In many instances the dangerous fiction of celluloid noir crossed into reality for many of its players and creators. Readers will absorb the mysterious details Muller exposes about noir stalwarts such as: Gene Tierney, Robert Micthum, Lizabeth Scott, Tom Neal, Ava Gardner, Dana Andrews, and Gloria Grahame to name just a few. Muller's writing style is witty, engaging, and stroked by a geniune infatuation for this mesmerizing cinematic art form. Any writer that describes Marie Windsor's bust as being able to "suppport a double run of pinochle" can pull up a lazy boy and a six pack for an all night noir feast with me anytime. Every noir enthusiast should own this exceptional book.
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Written in a style that recalls Kenneth Anger's "Hollywood Babylon," (not such a bad model, given the subject matter), this book is a delectable traversal of the realm of film noir. Perhaps its most valuable role is as a filmography of those gritty, postwar movies which are becoming harder and harder to locate (Blockbuster and other big chains have no use for them, and many are unavailable for purchase -- or prohibitively expensive -- on videotape.) In addition, Muller gives thumbnail bios of many of the legendary noir stars, like the great Marie Windsor (why she never made it bigger, despite a toothsome role in Kubrick's "The Killing," is one of noir's enduring mysteries), Gloria Grahame, Lawrence Tierney, Lizabeth Scott, Charles McGraw. Quibbles? They're inevitable in any book of opinion like this, but I question why the insolently insinuating woman's-prison picture, John Cromwell's 1950 "Caged," is relegated to a parenthesis, while a second feature shabby even by B-movie standards, "Stranger on the Third Floor," gets a mash note. (Nor do I think that a late homage like "Chinatown" can be legitimately considered noir.) Nonetheless, the black-and-white photos are stunners, and Muller's love of the dark celluloid city is entrancing.
Format:Taschenbuch
Eddie Muller's Dark City is a must for any lover of Film Noir! Who can resist a book with such chapter headings as "Sinister Heights," "Blind Alley," and (my favorite) "Vixenville." Eddie Muller has advoided the pitfall of Nicholas Christophers's "Somewhere in the Night" in fashioning a prose, while not only witty, has great pace and never stalls into leaden analysis. Muller also provides small bios of noir icons as Robert Mitchum, and Lizabeth Scott among others.
He also put a great deal of care into the design of the book and the movie stills.This book was a real treat and I can't wait to read the author's next book.
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Great read for any movie and film history fan
If you like Film Noir, or American movies in general, then you must read this masterpiece. It is a thrilling ride into the world of this specific genre of American Film. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 25. November 1999 veröffentlicht
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Engagingly designed with hundreds of gripping film stills and an eight-page mini-movie lobby of full-color posters, Dark City: the Lost World of Film Noir is a solid and... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 27. April 1999 veröffentlicht
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