Collections/April 2020

Columbia Noir

Featuring an introduction by film scholars Farran Smith Nehme and Imogen Sara Smith One year ago, the Criterion Channel launched with a journey into the dark side of the Columbia Pictures catalog, and we’re pleased to bring it back with an expanded lineup of classic noir deep cuts. While rival studios like MGM and Paramount lavished money and top-tier production values on splashy musicals and prestige literary adaptations, the notoriously budget-conscious Columbia was right at home in the gritty, slightly disreputable world of film noir. The Columbia lot was where auteurs like Fritz Lang, Nicholas Ray, and Orson Welles realized pulp-poetry perfection in masterpieces like The Big Heat , In a Lonely Place , and The Lady from Shanghai . It was also…

25 films — 1 on the Channel, 24 unavailable