Every good noir film gives us a riddle to be unraveled. This could be part of the plot, like the identity of mysterious killer, or a femme fatale’s true colors, only revealed at the end. Or, like in our...
We love film noir and neonoir films, and the genre’s influence is evident in the films that we make. Two of our films, Shades of Day and Notes from the New World, recently won gold and bronze awards, respectively, at...
NOTE TO NEW READERS: This blog post is part of an ongoing series explaining the mystery of Robert Hurley, which we investigate in our film, Dostoyevsky Reimagined: The Making of the Award-Winning Notes from the New World. Follow the links below...
“Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.” There are places that have a character of their own, and the Chinatown of the 1930s in Los Angeles definitely fits the bill. Up to 1910, this was a booming part of town, with...
There’s nothing worse than the feeling that someone is out to get you. It’s probably what Robert Hurley thought right before his disappearance. He was already knee deep in the Russian mafia’s affairs. He was swimming in gambling debts,...
“He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people?” We wouldn’t know what shadows looked like, if it weren’t for film noir. Shadows of the human soul, especially. There are better noir...
The curious nature of Hurley’s disappearance continues to raise more questions than answers. In my last blog, I wanted to figure out the connection between Dark Onto Light and the Russian mafia. If you recall, Hurley and Natalya (i.e....
For the last two weeks, we’ve asked you a few questions to prove how much you knew about film noir, and what your favorite neo-noir film was. If you haven’t voted yet, the polls (and surveys) are still open,...
Double Indemnity is the elusive case of the perfect noir. And yet it depicts a perfect crime that goes terribly awry. Perhaps that’s the whole point.
Roll the Credits is a part of our blog dedicated to Insider Knowledge of the film industry. Posts are written by the post-production crew and, from time to time, will feature interviews and insights from the people you see in...
