Film Noir. 100 All-Time Favorites

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

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 <em>Taxi Driver</em> screenwriter <strong>Paul Schrader</strong> provides the introduction to this feast of noir worship. Populated by the genre's most revered directors, like <strong>Hitchcock, Wilder, Welles, Polanski, Mann</strong>, and<strong> Scorsese</strong>, the book also pays homage to its iconic faces, including <strong>Mitchum, Bogart, Hayworth, Bergman, Grant, Bacall, Crawford, Nicholson, Pacino</strong>, and so many more.