A rebellious princess falls in love with an orphaned petty thief on the streets of an Arabian kingdom. She is fifteen, going on sixteen, and at the insistence of her father–and the laws of the […]
J. Stuart Blackton. J.R. Bray. Raoul Barré. The Fleischer brothers. Otto Messmer. Paul Terry. These names may not be all that recognizable today, but even the most casual observer of popular culture can see the […]
By DREW MORTON Five years ago, I wrote a retrospective on film noir for Pajiba by honing down my favorite film genre (or movement or mode – depending on who you’re talking to) to the Top Five […]
By Drew Morton It is the summer of 1996. I’m twelve years old and I’m standing in our driveway with my brother, my cousins, and a boxy VHS camcorder mounted on a tripod. We’ve just […]
By Drew Morton In the construction of my noir canon, I set myself two ground rules at the start: I would cover only the classical period from 1941 to 1958 and I would limit the […]
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hat makes Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity the greatest film noir? First, and this is veering away from the text of the film itself for just a moment, Double Indemnity is significant for the very reason that it was amongst […]
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