Good Film Noir

bogmanfan

The Last Seduction?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110308/

pwd

AnonoBoy wrote: »

If you're put off by when a film was made then you're missing out on some brilliant movies. It's your loss though.



I'd put it as more a gangster flick than a noir myself, but it's probably got bits of both really. And since it's a Coen Brothers film, I expect nothing less than clever-clever for my buck!

Well there are plenty of old films that probably are excellent, but the pacing is usually too slow for plenty of people these days. Humour in them is often a bit too gentle for a lot of people too.

Oh someone mentioned Miller's Crossing - that's a brilliant film. Blood Simple is another good one by the Coen brothers

randomchild

Cannot believe I forgot to mention brick, its exactly like what the op is looking for and while I can see why some do not like it, I think its a really great film.

Galvasean

MiloYossarian and Trevor Coulaghan, drop the bickering. First and ONLY warning.

pwd

krudler wrote: »

post of the year so far

Post a says something funny, gets 0 thanks.
Post b says post a is funny, gets 3 thanks.

[Nice clear demonstration of the bias against posters with low postcount, and vice-versa.]

fitz0

That... thats what I was supposed to do, right?

Hank_Jones

The one I would say to definitely have a look at is Double Indemnity.

And then some other noir films that I love personally are:

The Maltese Falcon
Touch of Evil
Miller's Crossing
Sunset Blvd.

All well worth a watch if you are interested in the genre.

Wacker

What did you all think of The Big Sleep? I'm no dullard, and I love quite a lot of Film Noir, but I'll admit that I turned it off after an hour because I had not an iota as to what was going on! Quite a while ago now; maybe it's time for another shot at it...

artielange

Another one that is highly underrated that I enjoyed.
The Heist


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0252503/plotsummary

loveissucide

Wacker wrote: »

What did you all think of The Big Sleep? I'm no dullard, and I love quite a lot of Film Noir, but I'll admit that I turned it off after an hour because I had not an iota as to what was going on! Quite a while ago now; maybe it's time for another shot at it...

You might wanna read the book first.

m.norton

pwd wrote: »

Well there are plenty of old films that probably are excellent, but the pacing is usually too slow for plenty of people these days. Humour in them is often a bit too gentle for a lot of people too.

Oh someone mentioned Miller's Crossing - that's a brilliant film. Blood Simple is another good one by the Coen brothers

The reason that the pacing was slower was that it typically lended to the overall feel of the film and some of these "older films" ared actually funnier than 99% of the dirge that passes for comedy these days i.e The Ladykillers, Kind Hearts and Corronets, St. Trinians etc. (and not the diabolical attempts at remakes.)

I do agree with Millers Crossing though, awesome

pwd

m.norton wrote: »

The reason that the pacing was slower was that it typically lended to the overall feel of the film and some of these "older films" ared actually funnier than 99% of the dirge that passes for comedy these days i.e The Ladykillers, Kind Hearts and Corronets, St. Trinians etc. (and not the diabolical attempts at remakes.)

I do agree with Millers Crossing though, awesome

Just a matter of taste.
I never said older films were inferior, just that they weren't to my taste.
Plenty of people don't like older films. I mentioned it because I was recommending a very old film, so I was making the point that, even if you don't usually like old films, you might still like this one. So it was relevant to the thread.
Arguing about the quality of older films in general isn't relevant to the thread, and it's not relevant to what I said.

mike65

Fritz Langs Ministry of Fear is on Channel 4 4:00am to 5:25am in the small hours Thursday morning.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037075/

jeffreylebowski

I don't know if I'm thread-necroing my own thread by doing this, but I started a thread a while ago about film noir and people had some cool suggestions:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=2055774035

geekychick

Kiss Me Deadly
Laura
The Maltese Falcon
The Big Sleep
Killers
Double Indemnity


Neo-noir:

Chinatown
Frantic
Body Heat
Prizzi's Honor
LA Confidential
The Last Seduction
Miller's Crossing
The Big Lebowski

jeffreylebowski

geekychick wrote: »

Kiss Me Deadly
Laura
The Maltese Falcon
The Big Sleep
Killers
Double Indemnity


Neo-noir:

Chinatown
Frantic
Body Heat
Prizzi's Honor
LA Confidential
The Last Seduction
Miller's Crossing
The Big Lebowski

Good list. Some of my favourite noirs in there.

jeffreylebowski

Some good noir I don't think I'd seen the last time I posted on another thread about it:

Body And Soul (1947)
The Set-Up (1949)
Both of the above are actually examples of boxing noir, kind of a tiny mini-genre. They're incredible films though, great noirs and The Set-Up in particular is to me one of the greatest boxing movies of all time.

Someone on here recommended Where The Sidewalk Ends[/URL (1950) which is just blindingly brilliant. Geekychick - you listed Laura on here, you might like Where The Sidewalk Ends, it's also directed by Otto Preminger and has the same leads in Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney.

I can't remember if I ever recommended it anywhere before or not, but probably my current favourite noir is The Big Combo (1955). It and Where The Sidewalk Ends are both of the ultra hard-boiled style of noir. The Big Combo in particular has some of the most arresting visuals in all of noir, it's full of great use of silhouette, and it really captures that nightmare city dreamscape that makes noir so memorable.


Above is a still from The Big Combo, they were so short on funds that the cinematographer draped sheets of black velvet around the edges of sets to make it look like the night sky.

geekychick

Thanks for recommendations!

Will keep them in mind.

I love film noir, that was just off the top of my head, but just the words "film noir" are enough to remind me that Hollywood once upon a time was quite a different place than it is nowadays... (big noirish sigh...) :cool: