[ Raoul Rajasingham ]

Film noir is a cinematic movement, popularized in the late 1930s and 1940s, that is notably characterized by a darker mood of pessimism,...

The Circus (1928), in its simplest form, is about a wandering man who accidentally becomes the celebrated star of a circus show. The film...

In classical Hollywood, an era that included the 1940s and 1950s, the audience had a common expectation of what actresses should look...

Rashomon (1950), by Akira Kurosawa, is a film about four separate social figures recounting an encounter between a bandit, a samurai and...