Doctor Moss·Jul 1, 2024Femmes Fatales: (4) More Femmes Fatales and an Homme FatalThe three movies I’ve talked about are well known and well watched. Laura and Double Indemnity are at the top of the lists of classic noir…
Doctor Moss·Jul 1, 2024Femmes Fatales: (3) Double Indemnity (1944)Eleven years after Baby Face, Barbara Stanwyck plays a more ruthless femme fatale. Phyllis Dietrichson is the real thing. This doesn’t…
Doctor Moss·Jul 1, 2024Femmes Fatales: (2) Laura (1944)This one is different. For one thing, it’s based on a novel by a woman, Vera Caspary, relatively rare for femme fatale stories.
Doctor Moss·Jul 1, 20243 Iconic Femmes Fatales of Film Noir (Intro)Femme fatales carve a special place in film noir. Somehow they flourished in an era of movies that were all about gritty, hardball…A response icon2A response icon2
