Farewell, My Lovely

Musicals, gangster films and westerns – according to Martin Scorsese, those three genres defined American cinema in the 20th century. Scorsese could have made another addition to the list: film noir. Based on the hard-boiled detective novels of the 1930s, this genre is usually associated with Hollywood films made one decade later. Through the years film noir, like everything else, evolved and took many forms, but th…