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A review by caseykoester39
Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir by Eddie Muller
5.0
If you have never read one of Eddie Muller's books, you really need to remedy that error. His prose and sentence construction is among the best I have ever read.
In this new and expanded edition of Dark City, Eddie paints glorious word pictures tying the various Noir-era films together with similar themes, locations or characters. He draws what-if portraits of characters from different films existing side by side in the same universe, which of course they did. It's his sparkling genius at its best. As soon as I read the last sentence, I wanted to close the book and start reading it all over again.
Peppered with incredible real life stories of actual Noir-stained events, this is far more than a book about movies. This is a roadmap of discovery for a bygone era that history buffs and film fans can enjoy.
In this new and expanded edition of Dark City, Eddie paints glorious word pictures tying the various Noir-era films together with similar themes, locations or characters. He draws what-if portraits of characters from different films existing side by side in the same universe, which of course they did. It's his sparkling genius at its best. As soon as I read the last sentence, I wanted to close the book and start reading it all over again.
Peppered with incredible real life stories of actual Noir-stained events, this is far more than a book about movies. This is a roadmap of discovery for a bygone era that history buffs and film fans can enjoy.