Monthly Archives: March 2012

First let me go off to say Happy Early Birthday to a certain Ebrahim!! His special day is this Saturday, and I hope he has a great one! What a standup guy. Now on to Christ in Concrete… I have … Continue reading →

To be honest, I had no idea what film noir was before I read these articles. I had an idea that it would be a dark themed film, but definitely not to the extent that it truly was. Christ in … Continue reading →

Edward Dmytryk’s 1949 film Give Us This Day (aka Christ in Concrete) is a brilliant example of film noir in terms of the visual motifs it chooses to employ in order to tell the story of Geremio (Sam Wanamaker), his … Continue reading →

I have to admit, the huge film nerd in me gave a squeal of delight when I saw that this week’s topic was film noir.  There’s not much I like more than a good mystery, and I’ve been in a … Continue reading →

Upon reading the article “Some Visual Motifs of Film Noir,” I learned that film noir has used untraditional filming techniques to create a horrible and dark mood in the film. While I do not fully understand the definition of film … Continue reading →

The aspect of Film Noir that I’d like to focus on is the directorial style: antitraditional mise-en-scene. I found this particularly intriguing, because through my interior design eye and in general, I usually vote for asymmetry. To explain what I … Continue reading →

Let me just say that if my life were a film noir, I would be very afraid…all the time. So much is conveyed through image, or lack thereof, and through music that sitting through a film noir, to me, is … Continue reading →

I want to talk about the film noir mood of despair and upset in the film Christ in Concrete directed by Edward Dmytryk. The noir mood of despair keeps recurring throughout the whole film. At the opening, Geremio(Sam Wanamaker) is … Continue reading →

One aspect of film noir, according to Place and Peterson’s piece on visual motifs of film noir, that I found particularly striking in Christ in Concrete is stunning camera work.  Oftentimes there are close ups or medium shots on the … Continue reading →

As I was reading Some Visual Motifs of Film Noir, I felt that I would have to pay close attention to the movie in order to find some of the motifs that characterize film noir. I thought the visual motifs would be difficult to … Continue reading →