Genre

Crime Films as Colour Posters

Crime films like dim light: smoky offices, wet streets, a touch of yellow or green that recalls old film stock. With Chinatown, L.A. Confidential or Zodiac the colour progressions turn to brown, amber and grey, calm and more elegant than loud. On the light theme they look like an archive photograph, on the dark theme like a night at the precinct. A poster for fans of the slow puzzle, the kind you want to start over once it ends.