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2 days ago · Quentin Tarantino has called the movie his primary inspiration for Reservoir Dogs, describing it as “a very influential movie to me before I’d even made a movie”. A neo-noir film with an especially strong emphasis on the neo and the noir, the movie’s scenes of graphic violence, semi-farcical twists, and sprinklings of dark comedy made ...
3 days ago · These movies follow a detective – who could be a hired private investigator, a member of law enforcement, or a complete amateur – as they attempt to uncover the mysteries of a crime. The genre includes plenty of incredible noir ( The Lady from Shanghai , The Maltese Falcon ) and neo-noir ( Memories of Murder , Brick ) movies, as well as ...
4 days ago · Blade Runner, the first film in the franchise, is a 1982 neo-noir science fiction film, serving as a loose adaptation of Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. [40] [41] The film is set in a dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, in which genetically bioengineered replicants , which are visually indistinguishable from adult ...
5 days ago · The film has also been labeled as a black comedy and a "neo-noir". [154] [155] [156] Critic Geoffrey O'Brien , however, argued against the classification of Pulp Fiction into the neo-noir genre: "The old-time noir passions, the brooding melancholy and operatic death scenes, would be altogether out of place in the crisp and brightly lit ...
14 hours ago · Created by writer Mark Protosevich (The Cell, I Am Legend), this neo noir mystery follows LA private detective John Sugar (Colin Farrell), who's hired to find Olivia Siegel (Sydney Chandler), granddaughter of legendary Hollywood producer Jonathan Siegel (James Cromwell). As Sugar continues his investigation, he runs into a colorful cast of ...
4 days ago · 10 Underrated Neo-Noir Movies From the '80s Neo-noir is film noir modernized that came after the '40s and '50s. The '80s gave us some of the best neo-noir films, but many are highly underrated.
2 days ago · Mulholland Drive (stylized as Mulholland Dr.) is a 2001 surrealist mystery film written and directed by David Lynch, and starring Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Ann Miller, Mark Pellegrino and Robert Forster. It tells the story of an aspiring actress named Betty Elms (Watts), newly arrived in Los Angeles, who meets and befriends an ...
