Into the shadows. Film Noir. 100 All-Time Favorites.

29/05/2014. From The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to Drive, 100 all-time favorite film noirs and neo-noirs.
metalocus, ÁNGEL BLANCO.

Enter a world populated by private eyes, gangsters, psychopaths, and femmes fatales, where deception, lust, and betrayal run rampant. The first film-by-film photography book on film noir and neo-noir, this essential collection begins with the early genre influencers of German and French silent film, journeys through such seminal works such as Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice, and Vertigo, and arrives at the present day via Chinatown, Pulp Fiction, Heat, and the recent cult favorite Drive.

Cover. Film Noir. 100 All-Time Favorites. Taschen.

Cover. Film Noir. 100 All-Time Favorites. Taschen.

In Drive (2011), Driver (Ryan Gosling) lives by a “code” during the robberies: “I don’t sit in while you’re running it. I don’t carry a gun. I drive.” © 2011 Bold Films, Oddlot Entertainment, Marc Platt Productions, Motel Movies / TASCHEN. Click above to see larger image.

Legendary cinematographer John Alton composed the final iconic image of The Big Combo (1955) as Susan (Jean Wallace) and Detective Leonard Diamond (Cornel Wilde) walk out of an airplane hangar into the fog. © 1955 Allied Artists / TASCHEN. Click above to see larger image.

Still from Sin City, 2005. Image courtesy of Taschen. Click above to see larger image.

Dave Bishop (Robert Mitchum) is accused of murder by the residents of the apartment block in Foreign Intrigue (1956). © 1956 Mandeville Productions, United Artists / TASCHEN.

Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) is embroiled in the hunt for a mysterious statuette in The Maltese Falcon (1941). © 1941 First National Pictures Inc., Warner Bros. / TASCHEN.

The gang’s “muscle,” Dix Handley (Sterling Hayden, right), hauls the wounded Louis Ciavelli (Anthony Caruso) away from the heist in The Asphalt Jungle (1950). © 1950 MGM / TASCHEN.

Inside pages. Cover. Film Noir. 100 All-Time Favorites. Taschen. Click above to see larger image.

Entries include posters, tons of rare stills, cast/crew details, quotes from the films and from critics, and analyses of the films. Film director, film noir scholar, and Taxi Driver screenwriter Paul Schrader provides the introduction to this feast of noir worship. Populated by the genre’s most revered directors, like Hitchcock, Wilder, Welles, Polanski, Mann, and Scorsese, the book also pays homage to its iconic faces, including Mitchum, Bogart, Hayworth, Bergman, Grant, Bacall, Crawford, Nicholson, Pacino, and so many more.

Film Noir. 100 All-Time Favorites

Paul Duncan, Jürgen Müller
Hardcover, 21,5 x 27,4 cm, 688 pages