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“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space” - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect I recently found myself standing beneath an awning overlooking the yellow nightly glimmer beyond the Gare du L...

An island is always an uncomfortable entity, for there the struggle between earth and water is simply contained, never entirely over. In one of many reflections on territorial matters Gilles Deleuze writes ‘tha...

When writing on the modern figure of the flâneur, Charles Baudelaire’s description sometimes gives this figure of the city-stroller making his way down the boulevards of 19th Century Paris the attributes of a c...

“ New York City is the place where they said Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side ” –Lou Reed, Walk on the Wild Side, 1972 Irrespective of his status as an American cinéaste maudit who is still largely ign...

Writing in 1926, Virginia Woolf expressed a certain suspicion that, if anywhere, "the past could be unrolled, distances annihilated in the chaos of the streets", (1) as represented via the new medium of film. ...

Tightly knit and momentarily coherent within its own perimeter, the Lower East Side nevertheless represented an experiment in collective rootlessness, a brief transcendence over nationhood by a people that had ...

This article provides a penetrating analysis of the often over looked importance of audio elements and their design in a range of 1950’s film noirs.

In Billy Wilder’s hilariously acid The Fortune Cookie (1966), sports cameraman Harry Hinkle (Jack Lemmon) gets clobbered by football star Luther “Boom Boom” Jackson (Ron Rich) when Jackson is tackled along the ...

The Paris Theater, on 58th Street in Manhattan, once received bomb threats for showing Roberto Rossellini’s “Il Miracolo” (“The Miracle”) from L’Amore (1948); it is now another stop on the Sex and the City tour...

In his essay on New York as “noir universe” in City That Never Sleeps: New York and the Filmic Imagination, Wheeler Winston Dixon argues that, New York has a hold on our imagination because it is so compact, s...