Taking its title from acclaimed book by Kevin Johnson, The Dark Page reviews the literary background of film noir and the influence of key writers such as Raymond Chandler but also the impact of black authors such as Walter Moseley and female writers, in a traditionally male domain, including Patricia Highsmith and Dorothy B. Hughes.
In this season
Blogs
Film review: Hitchcocking the Train to Highsmith-ville
Ally Davies reviews Strangers on a Train screening as part of our The Dark Page film season.
Blogs
Film Review: The Long Goodbye: A Marlowe for the 70’s
Andy Willis, Professor of Film Studies, School of Arts and Media, University of Salford reviews The Long Goodbye.
News
Film Review: Devil in a Blue Dress
Moggie Hoffgen, freelance film educator and programmer reviews Devil in Blue Dress.
Previously in this season
Cinema
Jackie Brown
Elmore Leonard is undoubtedly one of the finest and most prolific of contemporary pulp writers and his novel Rum Punch is given a surprisingly mature…
Cinema
Strangers on a Train
In a world of shadows, Patricia Highsmith looms large in terms of crime writing and exploring the dark and twisted underbelly of the human psyche.…
Cinema
Rear Window
One of cinema’s finest observations of the act of looking, this is perhaps the best-known adaptation of a work by prolific, somewhat underrated New York…
Cinema
Shoot the Pianist
Based upon a novel by Noir fave David Goodis, it’s the shadowy tale of a lonely pianist with a dark past that he can’t manage…
Cinema
Devil in a Blue Dress
An atmospheric, neo-noir adaptationof Walter Mosley's seminal novel about black private eye Easy Rawlins' uneasy adventures in the (even more) segregated L.A. of the 1950s.
Cinema
The Long Goodbye
Robert Altman adapts Raymond Chandler's novel and updates it to a contemporary setting.
Cinema
The Killing
Kubrick’s account of an ambitious racetrack robbery is one of Hollywood’s tautest, twistiest noirs.
Cinema
Mildred Pierce
Michael Curtiz blends film noir and melodrama in this passionate story of a self-sacrificing mother who would do anything to provide a good life for…
Cinema
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
In one of the best performances of his career, Robert Mitchum plays small-time gunrunner Eddie “Fingers” Coyle in an adaptation by Peter Yates of George…