The Village Voice, March 22nd, 2006
FALLEN ANGEL Fox Shadows and fog aplenty in new crop of film noir classics You'd swear after watching this year's Oscar night tribute montage to film noir that no one in the Academy knows much about the genre that lit a million cigarettes, rolled a million beads of sweat, and filled a million alleys with impenetrable shadow. But the studio libraries, particularly Fox, keep belching up the classics, and the clichéd rules we think we know don't always apply. Otto Preminger's Fallen Angel (1945), for instance, is set in a small California town, but it nevertheless feels claustrophobic and men...
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