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

In Burton’s fantasy, static objects animate, the shadow world and the “real” world collide, and the limits between life and death blur

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

Reconciling dreams with poor prospects

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

Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon stun opposite David Bowie in this ’80s tribute to the vampire genre