Tag: gloria grahame

  • Noirvember: Fritz Lang’s “Human Desire” (1954)

    Noirvember: Fritz Lang’s “Human Desire” (1954)

    Fritz Lang is one of those directors whose name is synonymous with film noir: a German expatriate who brought his expressionistic storytelling technique to Hollywood and quickly began to change how studio films looked and felt. His debut, Fury (which I talk about here) still shocks in spite of its studio-mandated happy ending, and movies like…