Beyond noir tendencies to position her character within Hollywood notions of death and desire, Lana’s shifting portrayal of “hyper” femininity throughout The Postman Always Rings Twice reveals a hidden psychology that is nothing if not multidimensional

Paul Thomas Anderson’s beautiful and bizarre Phantom Thread tells the story of lovers unable to give and receive as equals in an unstable power dynamic

A film that evokes all the visual and narrative elements associated with Film Noir, while inverting its most definitive feature: the threat that femininity poses to masculinity

Influenced by the Mod movement of the 1960s (itself, a reaction to post-war, free love sentiments), the ‘Droogs’ iconic costume designs pay homage to fascist subculture

Jim Jarmusch’s ode to boredom in eternal life, high art, and Bohemia everlasting

On the depths of shallowness

Fritz Lang investigates the perpetual schism between man and machine

What this film lacks in plot it makes up for in pure violence.

The original sci-fi neo-noir

A zombie siege film with high-level aesthetics