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Nov 18, 2019 · 25. Enter the Void (2010) Trippy, drug-induced ride. One of the paradigm shifts from film noir movies to neo-noir movies is the addition of neon lights. There’s still high contrast lighting, but directors now flood those once-monochromic images with vibrant reds, blues, and purples.
The most important directors of Film Noir classic era (1940-1960) 1. Robert Siodmak. Robert Siodmak (8 August 1900 - 10 March 1973) was a German-born, American film director. He is best remembered as a thriller specialist and for a series of stylish, unpretentious Hollywood films noirs he made in the 1940s.
Pulp Fiction (1994) R | 154 min | Crime, Drama. 8.9. Rate. 95 Metascore. The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption. Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis.
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- Sorcerer
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The film noir is widely associated with American cinema, but that doesn’t mean other countries haven’t excelled at tackling the genre. Case in point: Takashi Nomura’s 1967 Japanese drama A Colt Is MyPassport. A story concerning a pair of contract killers, Shuji Kamimura (Joe Shishido) and Shun Shiozaki (Jerry Fujio), who take out an intended target...
There are no heroes in William Friedkin’s Sorcerer. There is no redemption. This remake of the classic film Wages of Fear takes the bleak mortality of the film noir to its zenith. While a grim perspective on the world had permeated much of 1970s cinema, none of them had as drab of an outlook as Sorcerer. The saga of four men hired to carry explosiv...
With their inaugural directorial effort, The Coen Brothers already showed an impressive command of tone and visual language. Such qualities allowed Blood Simple to not only be a fascinating directorial debut but just a great film in its own right. The inexperienced nature of the central characters lends a sense of truly unpredictable mayhem to the ...
Women in film noirs do not get a good reputation. They’re either sexy objects to be claimed by the protagonist as a reward or sexy femme fatales who can’t be trusted. Widows didn’t just subvert these norms, it annihilated them. In the story of four women (Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, and Cynthia Erivo) who plan a heist after ...
With Destroyer, Karyn Kusama’s ingenious subversions of audience expectations begin with plopping Nicole Kidman into the film's lead role. Much like how Kusama demonstrated the acting chops of Megan Fox by casting her in the complex lead role Jennifer’s Body, Kidman, after a career of playing largely ethereal roles, shows off unseen levels of depth...
Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale), the protagonist of American Psycho, inhabits a world as grimy as any seen in a classic Raymond Chandler novel. An investment banker living a luxurious life in New York City in 1987, Bateman plays with big finances during the day and then proceeds to viciously kill people at night. He’s possessive, self-absorbed…and...
In all of director Rian Johnson’s films, familiar genres can twist around into something that’s simultaneously new while reminding you why you loved that familiar genre in the first place. This trait was evident from the get-go in his directorial debut Brick, which sets a neo-noir in a modern high school. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brick is a t...
Set in the 1970s, Zodiac, as the title would imply, is about the Zodiac killer and a group of newspaper writers for the San Francisco Chronicle trying to figure out who the identity of this serial killer is. Zodiac has as grisly of a killer as any seen in a classic film noir, but it isn’t long before it’s revealed that the primary antagonist in the...
Some neo-noirs set in the modern world try and minimize the elements that explicitly call attention to the present. In the case of Nightcrawler, though, we have a movie that embodies key traits of the noir while being firmly planted in the world of 2014. Writer/director Dan Gilroy wants the viewer to recognize that not only is this the present but ...
While certain seminal film noirs were defined by a slow-burn atmosphere that gave divine rewards for patience, City of God goes in the opposite direction. This expansive motion picture is a propulsive ride that hits 100 mph from its first frame and never lets up. Its speedy storytelling is matched by camerawork that throws viewers directly into the...
Nov 8, 2023 · Warner Bros via MovieStillsDB. Blade Runner remains one of director Ridley Scott ’s best films, particularly since it is so effective at combining film noir with science fiction. Harrison Ford ...
Apr 12, 2024 · Notorious Noir. Lists about that dark, stylish, dramatic, hard-to-define but know-it-when-you-see-it genre that boomed in the 1940s and '50s and still influences moody films and TV series of today. Over 600 filmgoers have voted on the 60+ Best Neo-Noirs. Current Top 3: Chinatown, Blade Runner, Fargo.
Nov 23, 2017 · And so, Blade Runner 2049 joins a long list of critically lauded underperformers that fall under the neo-noir or tech-noir umbrella. While noir’s moody aesthetics and nihilistic inclinations have informed some of the most successful films of recent decades, from The Matrix (1999) to The Dark Knight (2008), those that lean into the genre’s conventions too heavily often struggle to connect ...
