Film Noir Illustrations

Film Noir Timeline: click here (PDF file, requires the free Adobe Reader)

Low-Key Lighting and Night-for-Night Shooting
Day-for-Night, aka, Nuit Americaine (opposite of night-for-night)
The Hitch-Hiker (1953)	Out of the Past (1947, more)

Night-for-Night & Low-Key Lighting (Exteriors)
The Big Combo (1955)	Double Indemnity (1944)

Crime Wave, 1950

Low-Key Lighting (Interiors)
Out of the Past (1947, more)



The Lady From Shanghai (1948, more)	The Lady From Shanghai (1948, more)

The Ministry of Fear (1944)

Urban Settings: Boxing Rings, Back Alleys, Cheap Hotel Rooms, Waterfronts, Nightclubs/Cantinas, Etc.
Phantom Lady (1944)	Fallen Angel (1945)

Out of the Past (1947, more)

The Case Against Brooklyn (1958)	Crime Wave, 1950

Unconventional Camera Angles: Low Angle, High Angle
Out of the Past (1947, more)

In a Lonely Place (1950)	The Lady From Shanghai (1948, more)

Unconventional Camera Angles: Extreme Deep Focus
The Lady From Shanghai (1948, more)

Unconventional Camera Angles: Dutch Angle
Pickup On South Street (1953)	Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

Women in Film Noir
The Femme Noir, aka Spider Woman, Femme Fatale
The Maltese Falcon (1941, more): Brigid O'Shaughnessy

The Lady From Shanghai (1948, more): Elsa 'Rosalie' Bannister

Out of the Past (1947, more): Kathie Moffat

The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946): Cora Smith
Click image for Quicktime movie.
The Redemptive Woman
Out of the Past (1947, more): Ann Miller

Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

Phenix City Story (1955)

Latter-Day Film Noir

The Matrix (1999)

The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)

The Grifters (1990)

Click here to view more The Grifters frame grabs.

Jim Thompson (1906-1977), bio, The Grifters (1964), chapter one.

The Killer Inside Me (1952)

"In Focus: 10 Shades of Noir," Images: A Journal of Film and Popular Culture, http://www.imagesjournal.com
"Film Noir: Classic Images," http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/noir.htm

Last revised: April 20, 2009 2:34 PM