I have always loved Film Noir http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_noir and spent many an hour in the Scala watching triple bills of noir classics. I had forgotten too how much I liked the films of Fritz Lang with their great lighting and mise en scene http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mise_en_scène.
I had not seen a Film Noir or a Fritz Lang movie for a good 12 years or so. So it was great to watch Scarlet Street [which is both] on a cheapo boxed set of Noir classics. Just brilliant film-making. Out came all my old Noir reference books and it is like discovering the magic of the genre all over again.
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