From femme fatale to cattle rancher: how Barbara Stanwyck bucked convention
Her versatility made her a star of Hollywood’s golden age, but Stanwyck’s best characters were always fighters who, like herself, had tasted life’s bitterness
October 2016
After The Maltese Falcon: how film noir took flight
Ushering in an uneasy world of femmes fatales and shady sleuths, The Maltese Falcon marked the beginnings of film noir. Seventy-five years on, how can this genre speak to our times?
July 2012
Philip French's classic DVD
Double Indemnity
Billy Wilder's collaboration with Raymond Chandler produced a superb thriller that helped define film noir, writes Philip French
June 2012
This week's new DVD & Blu-ray
This week's new DVD & Blu-ray
The Innkeepers | A Dangerous Method | Double Indemnity | Howl's Moving Castle | King Of New York
December 2011
My favourite film
My favourite film: Readers' comments – week six
We round up the finest of your reponses to last week's films – in this case Way Out West, Double Indemnity, Tampopo, Back to the Future and Kes
November 2011
My favourite film
My favourite film: Readers' comments – week five
My favourite film
My favourite film: Double Indemnity
October 2010
The 25 best crime films of all time
Double Indemnity: No 6 best crime film of all time
Billy Wilder, 1944
February 2007
Film blog
The real video nasties
Why is it that I can't find Double Indemnity at my local video shop, but there are racks filled with straight-to-DVD knockoffs?
November 2005
Double Indemnity
Andrew Pulver: If you like your dialogue hardboiled, your lighting shadowy, and your femmes fatales preposterously evil, then look no further.
