anyone

topic posted Wed, April 18, 2007 - 5:37 PM by  DJ JOE
seen any good Noir flicks lately?
Or can you suggest a favorite ?
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DJ JOE
Virginia
  • Re: anyone

    Thu, April 19, 2007 - 10:00 AM
    grindhouse doesn't qualify as noir, but i can't imagine that it wouldn't appeal to noir fans. i saw it in the back row at the second run four star with a jack daniels half pint in the cupholder and a crowd of seven, and i tell ya, that was a perfect movie going experience.
    • Re: anyone

      Sun, April 22, 2007 - 5:02 AM
      There's a series of films released on DVD under the collection name "Forgotten Noir" that are pretty fun. I just finished "Portland Expose"/"They Were So Young". Both pretty good.

      "Portland Expose" shot on location is s comment on the teamsters supposedly. An average father finds his life hyjacked by criminals. They turn his business into a den of corruption. There's a slimey thug after his young daughter. How will he take back his life?

      "They were So Young" was my fave of the two. set in Brazil, it deals with the luring of young woman to become models and instead turning them into prostitutes. It stars Raymond Burr and I especially liked how the girls that make trouble end up working as "entertainment" on boats for the coffee workers.
  • Re: anyone

    Mon, April 30, 2007 - 1:42 PM
    Laura (1944) comes to mind, and is particularly interesting if you watch it in tandem with Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958), as both films deal with a protagonist who falls in love with the image of a dead woman, but deal with the concept in starkly different ways. I also rather enjoyed A Pickup on South Street (1953), which I saw on AMC many years ago during a "Noir" themed festival they were doing, though I suppose one could argue against the film qualifying as noir.

    Obviously, the old standbys like The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, The Dark Passage, and Naked City are as good as ever. Then you have the post-modern descendant of noir, urban dystopia (usually displaced to the near future and labelled "cyberpunk), and films like Strange Days and Blade Runner.

    I also enjoyed David Mamet's Heist (2001) quite a bit, and I would call that a modern noir film.

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