tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149411832127844385.post3351745223751253004..comments2024-03-22T14:34:39.101-04:00Comments on MONDO 70: A Wild World of Cinema: DVR Diary: PORT OF SHADOWS (Quai des brumes, 1938)Samuel Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149411832127844385.post-13098539449173566842013-03-25T12:49:49.704-04:002013-03-25T12:49:49.704-04:00On your recommendation I'll have to check out ...On your recommendation I'll have to check out Hotel du Nord sometime soon. It's curious that the French critics associated American noir with their own "poetic realism," since Port reminded me more of its contemporary American crime films than the stuff of a decade later.Samuel Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149411832127844385.post-63217290559210441392013-03-24T21:17:06.504-04:002013-03-24T21:17:06.504-04:00It's a great movie. I think that this movie an...It's a great movie. I think that this movie and <em>Hôtel du Nord</em> (also directed by Marcel Carné) are the two great masterpieces of the French poetic realism of the 30s. When French critics discovered American film noir in the 40s it was movies like <em>Port of Shadows</em> and <em>Hôtel du Nord</em> that they were comparing them to.dfordoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02306293859869179118noreply@blogger.com