Soft Noir Archive

Weegee on his back, cigar in mouth, Speed Graphic ready. A bikini-clad beauty takes his portrait instead. London, late 1950.

Primal Fear (1997) Director: Gregory Hoblit

Control isn’t given. It’s taken. Basic Instinct (1992) Director: Paul Verhoeven

Lovers in a small Paris café. Quartier d’Italie, c. 1932 Brassaï

“We’ve met before… haven’t we?” Something remembers. You don’t. Lost Highway (1997) - David Lynch

The Skin I Live In (2011) Director: Pedro Almodovar

Oldboy (2004) Director: Park Chan-wook

Spoorloos (1988) Director: George Sluizer

Scarface (1983) Director: Brian De Palma

Same night. Same duo. Different shades of danger. Mia & Vincent - Pulp Fiction (1994) Director: Quentin Tarantino

Lost Highway (1997) Director: David Lynch

Lips together. Blow. To Have and Have Not (1944) Director: Lauren Bacall

The Handmaiden (2016) Director: Park Chan-wook

end scene by Caitlyn Grabenstein

Django Unchained (2012) Director: Quentin Tarantino

Classical music ringing while the world burns in ultraviolence. Beauty and brutality, perfectly composed. A Clockwork Orange (1971) Director: Stanley Kubrick

Casino (1995) Director: Martin Scorsese

Persona (1966) Director: Ingmar Bergman