THE MIRROR OF NOIR

 Ah, 'film Noir'!   A French expression and a favorite American genre that flourished after World War Two, and includes all time favorites like Double Indemnity, D.O.A., Detour and Laura, is really, argues Milton Moses Ginsberg, an invention of German writer-directors who fled to Hollywood when the Weimar Republic metamorphosed into the Third Reich. Into his rich investigation into the Expressionist roots of these dark and twisted dreams, Ginsberg uses fabulous clips from German and American films. He also provides autobiographical accounts of their shadowy influence on an impressionable young New Yorker. Ginsberg, a celebrated film editor best known for his independent feature, Coming Apart, provides the film buff and the cultural historian with a delicious serving of the tastiest morsels of Cinema's nastiest narratives. 
                                                              Laurence Kardish, formally Chief Curator of Film, MOMA     

THE MIRROR OF NOIR  describes the journey of several filmmakers who invented German Expressionist Cinema – and, forced to flee Germany, helped invent American Film Noir in Hollywood. 

The film  focuses not on their physical journey  – but on the journey of their cinematic style and the  darkness of their vision.

It also tells the story of a boy growing up in the Bronx who develops an obsession with haunted heroes and a fatal attraction to femmes fatale.     

The Mirror Of Noir​ – 111 mins.