Niagra is a TechniColor Noir that tells the story of two couples who have a chance encounter at a Niagara Falls motel. Marilyn Monroe and Joseph Cotten are Rose and George Loomis—he, an older neurotic veteran, and she, a young nymphomaniac. Jean Peters and Max Showalter are Polly and Ray Cutler enjoying [...]
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The location photography by William Daniels is so gorgeous in this film. I tried to capture establishing shots or shots with very little action in the foreground to highlight his amazing work on the architecture of New York.
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All Films Noir were imbued with an Existential Angst that had been intensified by World War II and the inability for the U.S. to live up to all of the optimism that crushing the Axis powers had generated at home. However the style had an earlier origin in Pre War Germany with the Expressionism of [...]
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I sought out Meshes of the Afternoon when I read how much of an influence Maya Deren was on David Lynch’s work. It’s a beautiful fourteen minute experimental film that chronicles a nameless woman (played by the writer/director Deren) as she follows Death through her dreams and into reality. It was filmed for just a [...]
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