I'm intrigued by the term "film blanc" - are there any examples you can recommend?
I don't know much about the genre beyond what I linked! I think of Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) as the type specimen—its modern yet ancient heavenly bureaucracy surely influenced Powell and Pressburger's more deliberately numinous A Matter of Life and Death (1946), not to mention Jack Benny's apocalyptically goofy The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945). I associate it with afterlives and otherworlds. There was a weird boom of secular angels on film in the 1940's that I think of as sort of the core of film blanc. The website looks as though it includes any non-horror fantasy in the definition and I feel that's a reach.
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I'm intrigued by the term "film blanc" - are there any examples you can recommend?
I don't know much about the genre beyond what I linked! I think of Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) as the type specimen—its modern yet ancient heavenly bureaucracy surely influenced Powell and Pressburger's more deliberately numinous A Matter of Life and Death (1946), not to mention Jack Benny's apocalyptically goofy The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945). I associate it with afterlives and otherworlds. There was a weird boom of secular angels on film in the 1940's that I think of as sort of the core of film blanc. The website looks as though it includes any non-horror fantasy in the definition and I feel that's a reach.