https://vo.rs/tags/jane-greer/Latest from the Jane Greer desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Fri, 20 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/out-of-the-past-the-doom-laden-peak-of-film-noir/<p>A man is running a petrol station in a small Californian mountain town, courting a nice local girl, keeping his head down. Then a car with the wrong licence plate rolls in, and a face from his old life climbs out, and you understand in an instant that this quiet is borrowed and the bill has come due. <em>Out of the Past</em>, made at RKO in 1947 by Jacques Tourneur, is the film that took every ingredient the noir cycle had been assembling and cooked them into their most concentrated form. If someone wanted a single title to explain what &ldquo;fatalism&rdquo; means in a crime film — the sense that the ending was written before the film began, that the characters are only discovering a doom already fixed — this is the one I would hand them.</p>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000