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Ive started to be fascinated with thise genre after i saw Sin City and Fargo. Yea, i know they aren't exactly film noir movies but they have distinct characteristics of ones. Anyway recommend some good movies of this genre.
I heard Sunset Blvd is supposed to be really good.
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oooh...
start maybe with "the maltese falcon"?? that's an iconic movie of the genre if there ever was one. |
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Touch of Evil by Orson Welles
Double Indemnity by Billy Wilder something by Hitchcock...perhaps! you think?!!! Casablanca is a good film. It's also one of the most overrated. |
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hot damn touch of evil was perhaps the apex of the genre
then there are awesome post-noir movies (?) like "le samourai" --- post-edit: here is a little primer i just found, looks quite comprehensive & offers many titles. "enyoy" http://www.filmsite.org/filmnoir.html |
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The Killers(1946)
Detour(1945) T-Men(1948) Crossfire(1947) White Heat(1949) and another Bogart The Big Sleep(1947)
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oh the big sleep was fun and lauren bacall was completely babelicious in it.
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Let's not forget Cape Fear(1962). Robert Mitchum is brilliant. The 1991 version was a pretty good remake.
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Vertigo is GREAT and very creepy.
Dunno if it's strictly film noir but Metropolis is really really good, and also very creepy. Similarly Whatever Happened to Baby Jane is AMAZING. But, yeah, I don't know the technical description of film noir, so I don't know if these are or not. |
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no, metropolis is certainly not film noir. neither is sunset boulevard for that matter. |
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There are many characteristics in Film noir. Obscure lighting Obsession with the past (flashbacks) Femme Fatale Odd camera angles (often low, high or tilted to one side) Narration by the main character The getaway and the chase Someone is always looking for the truth The city landscape ... and so on. Betrayal, love, sex and the perfect murder are all important elements of film noir.
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Kiss Me Deadly is prett kool.
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Touch of Evil is my fave
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Polanski's "Chinatown"
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LifeDistortion has schooled me. I swear to you that Chinatown is usually in my top ten or twenty.
Nice ones, Tokolosh. Detour is one of the best B-movies out there. White Heat is some choice Cagney. Cape Fear with Peck and Mitchum is a great one. Mitchum, who's just about always wonderful, turns in a fabulous twilight performance in The Friends of Eddie Coyle which is like a '70s-noir. Not film noir, there's crime, but not many dames hehe, but I will also recommend the original In Cold Blood.
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The Big Sleep is great but really confusing. Definitely requires multiple viewings.
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You would like Blade Runner if you haven't seen it...it's sci-fi-noir based on PKD's Do Androids Deam of Electric Sheep? Its atmosphere is a bit comparable to Sin City with all the darkness.
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mmm anything from hitchcock, physco has something about noir film, casablanca it's a good one too, to kill a dead man...
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oh i forgot
NAKED CITY!!! a singular movie... very fucking cool |
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And for a great comedy that pokes fun of film noir see Steve Martin's classic "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid". Good stuff.
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