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Noir in Six Fatal Kisses

Published March 11, 2018March 29, 2021 by Privilege Of Legends in 40's film, 50's film, academy awards, art direction, art in film, ben hecht, bfi, billy wilder, blog essay, classic film, cold war, creative writing, crime fiction, crime film, criterion, cult film, directing film, directors, double indemnity, fascism, femme fatale, film art, film blog, film censorship, film design, film essay, film genre, film noir, film production, film studies, film theory, filmmaking, gangster films, hard boiled, hays code, hollywood, independent american cinema, independent film, james cagney, james m cain, london film, mccarthyism, mickey spillane, neo noir, privilege of legends, pulp crime, pulp crime fiction, pulp fiction, ralph meeker, raoul walsh, raymond chandler, richard conte, rko pictures, robert aldrich, robert siodmak, sam fuller, samuel fuller, scorsese, screen adaptations, screenwriting, sonny syah, spy films, spy movies, stanley kubrick, Uncategorized, war films
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The Spy Films Of Fritz Lang

Published January 5, 2018January 6, 2018 by Privilege Of Legends in 40's film, academy awards, adventure films, alfred hitchcock, anti-nazi, anti-war film, art direction, art in film, auteurs, bfi, blog essay, british cinema, carol reed, cinematography, classic film, cold war, creative writing, crime fiction, crime film, criterion, cult film, directing, directing film, directors, fascism, film art, film blog, film censorship, film design, film essay, film genre, film noir, film production, film studies, film theory, film vienna, filmmaking, foreign cinema, foreign film, fritz lang, german expressionism, graham greene, graphic art, hard boiled, hays code, hitchcock, hollywood, independent american cinema, independent film, italian neo-realism, london film, mccarthyism, michael curtiz, neo-realism, neorealism, NIDA, paramount pictures, period films, politics, post production, post-war film, pre-war film, privilege of legends, propaganda film, screen adaptations, screenwriting, silent films, sonny syah, spy films, spy movies, the third man, thriller, Uncategorized, war films, warner brothers, world cinema
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Through The Lens: James Wong Howe

Published January 19, 2017May 25, 2018 by Privilege Of Legends in 30's films, 50's film, 60's film, academy awards, acting, AFTRS, art in film, asian cinema, auteurs, bfi, blog essay, cinematography, classic film, classical music, cold war, colour in film, creative writing, crime fiction, crime film, criterion, cult film, directing film, director of photography, directors, experimental film, femme fatale, film art, film blog, film censorship, film design, film essay, film genre, film lighting, film noir, film production, film studies, film theory, filmmaking, gangster films, graphic art, hard boiled, hays code, howard hawks, independent american cinema, independent film, james cagney, james wong howe, john ford, john huston, london art, london film, long takes, mccarthyism, melodrama, michael curtiz, mob films, neorealism, NIDA, period films, politics, post production, post-war film, pre-code hollywood, privilege of legends, pulp crime fiction, rko pictures, sam fuller, samuel fuller, sci-fi, screenwriting, shooting technique, silent films, sonny syah, surrealism, symbolism in film, technicolor, thriller, toning, Uncategorized, war films
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A Jungle Reverie: The Mystic Allure Of The Unexplored

Published August 1, 2016January 9, 2017 by Privilege Of Legends in akira kurosawa, anti-war film, art in film, bfi, blog essay, british cinema, cinematography, classic film, cold war, creative writing, film art, film blog, film design, film essay, film genre, film production, independent american cinema, japanese cinema, london art, london film, post production, privilege of legends, russian film, screenwriting, shooting technique, symbolism in film, vietnam war films, war films, world cinema
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War As A Backdrop

Published March 21, 2015January 9, 2017 by Privilege Of Legends in 50's film, academy awards, andrei tarkovsky, andrzej wajda, anti-war film, auteurs, bfi, cinematography, classic film, creative writing, cult film, czech new wave, directing, eastern european film, film production, jiri menzel, poland cinema, privilege of legends, russian film, screenwriting, war films
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