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Noir films
RallyMonkey:
--- Quote from: AanAllein on 27 Sep 2009, 23:41 ---Chinatown is more correctly neo-noir, right? Still my favourite noir film so an excellent recommendation.
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I would say Memento would definitely be considered neo-noir. Yet, Chinatown, while being a lot newer than classic noir films, follows all of the original noir concepts pretty damn close.
a pack of wolves:
It's one of those ones where you can pick and choose, since there isn't a definitive answer to what constitutes noir (or even if it is a genre at all, a subject of some debate). For those that take noir as something that applies only to films from a certain period Chinatown definitely wouldn't qualify. Neither would M actually, since it does fit as a German street or asphalt film and it was never referred to as a noir until comparatively recently, but it's such an enormous influence on noir it's worth watching.
By a massive distance the absolute greatest noir (so long as you accept M isn't one), not to mention a good contender for greatest film of any kind, is easily Sunset Boulevard. Anyone who doesn't think Norma Desmond is one of the greatest characters of all time is a massive chump.
scarred:
Came here to say Brick, but it was already said, so I'll just say that it is fucking great.
look out! Ninjas!:
Sunset Boulevard.
Also;
The Maltese Falcon
Double Indemnity
The Third Man
Stranger on the Third Floor
M
Nosferatu - really an expressionist piece, but it's so damn good you should watch it anyway. Plus, it's fallen into the public domain.
AanAllein:
--- Quote from: KickThatBathProf on 28 Sep 2009, 09:31 ---Casablanca, duh
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Joke post? Or do people actually think Casablanca is noir?
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