Ken Kimmelman, Emmy award-winning filmmaker and Aesthetic Realism consultant, says about this upcoming class in his course “If It Moves, It Can Move You”: Opposites in the Cinema:
People have been interested in seeing corruption, crime, the darker side of life—the drama of good and evil—as these are shown on the big screen in a good film noir. The dramatic relation of black and white, shadow and sunlight, which are distinctive in this genre, have a large ethical and even hopeful meaning for every person’s life.
Some of the films I’ll be discussing are: The Asphalt Jungle; Touch of Evil; Le Jour Se Lève