Collections/February 2023

Robert Siodmak: Four Key Noirs

Along with fellow European émigrés like Fritz Lang and Billy Wilder, German-born Robert Siodmak was instrumental in importing the expressionist visual style and hard-bitten existentialist sensibility that would define Hollywood film noir, arguably creating more classics of the genre than any other director. His moody, shadow-etched compositions and flair for the fatalistic are on full display in this selection of some of his finest, including Phantom Lady , his dreamlike first noir and a fascinating protofeminist example of the genre, and The Killers and Criss Cross , a pair of bleak, twisty pulp masterpieces starring Burt Lancaster.

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