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Jul 7, 2021 · Though released in late 1989, Kill Me Again is essentially the first ’90s noir, featuring all the hallmarks that would dominate the decade ahead: an A-list star, a B-movie title, and a generous ...
The following is a list of films belonging to the neo-noir genre. Following a common convention of associating the 1940s and 1950s with film noir , the list takes 1960 to date the beginning of the genre.
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- The Grifters (1990) Director: Stephen Frears. Jim Thompson’s hard-boiled writing has provided fertile source material for noir cinema, whether it be neo, 90s or otherwise.
- Basic Instinct (1992) Director: Paul Verhoeven. It would be a crime almost as heinous as the ones committed in Basic Instinct to omit it from a list about 90s noir.
- Deep Cover (1992) Director: Bill Duke. Laurence Fishburne and Jeff Goldblum’s terrific screen chemistry, a plethora of natty 90s threads and Snoop Dogg’s recording studio debut on the theme tune are just three reasons to recommend Bill Duke’s sizzling noir.
- One False Move (1992) Director: Carl Franklin. When three violent drug dealers leave six dead in LA and hotfoot it to Star City, Arkansas, it’s clear a classic confrontation is brewing.
Neo-noir is a revival of film noir, a genre that had originally flourished during and after World War II in the United States—roughly from 1940 to 1960. The French term film noir translates literally to English as "dark film" or “black film”, because they were quite dark both in lighting and in sinister stories often presented in a shadowy cinematographic style.
Dec 22, 2021 · Film Noir’s Early Days: How Studios Resisted, Then Embraced, the Genre. Guillermo del Toro's neo-noir 'Nightmare Alley' calls back to an age when the subversive "murder mellers," or off-kilter ...
Apr 16, 2015 · Phantom Lady was released in February of 1944, the year that the film noir style really started to gather momentum. Double Indemnity, Laura, The Woman in the Window and Murder, My Sweet all followed that autumn – and if Robert Siodmak’s film is any less well known than those films, it can only be down to its lack of star power.
Apr 24, 2014 · Note: The films listed are in chronological order by release year. 1. King of New York (Abel Ferrara, 1990) Screenplay by Nicholas St. John. Christopher Walken delivers one of the great performances of his legendary career in this tale of a crime boss named Frank White being targeted by a trio of police officers upon his release from prison.
