Best laid plans....
Ahh, Memento
The text book perfection of The Man who Wasn't There is remarkable. Probably one of the 2 best looking Coen films there is.
Hudsucker is the 2nd.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
Well if brick counts then thats my pick.
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If I was going to add a few they would probably be silent films that most people wouldn't think of as noire but on further reflection are probably more noire than they are anything else like The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, M. (not a silent but made by Fritz Lang), Lon Chaney's Laugh Clown Laugh, Murnau's The Last Laugh, the french films Fantomas and Les Vampires, Buneul's Un Chien Andalou, and Paul Leni's The Man Who Laughs.
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I understand most of your list, because most of those were Expressionist films that inspired the rise of film noir in America, so you could call them proto-noir or something, but I have no idea why you're including Un Chien Andalou in that list. Whassup with that?
I love The Big Sleep. I can watch that movie over and over and over again...
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| The Ghost of RubangB said: I understand most of your list, because most of those were Expressionist films that inspired the rise of film noir in America, so you could call them proto-noir or something, but I have no idea why you're including Un Chien Andalou in that list. Whassup with that? |
Well it starts out in a very somber black and white with some man alone in a room smoking a cigarette, wearing a muscle shirt Edit: It's not really a muscle shirt on closer inspection), and holding a straight razor. He appears to intentionally cut himself with the straight razor and then it switches to a scene of a woman apparenly having her eye cut by the razor. Also, there are sevel scenes of death and mortality throughout the piece including a prolonged scene of a death's head moth (not in the video below but in the full length vesion and that brings up a possible influence on Silence of the Lambs?) that are mixed with very eerie pieces of classic style music. The relationship between the male and female character seems to be of the noire type relationship between men and women, and the main theme sounds like some kind of happy death waltz.
and http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_013/andalou.htm
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| The Ghost of RubangB said: I understand most of your list, because most of those were Expressionist films that inspired the rise of film noir in America, so you could call them proto-noir or something, but I have no idea why you're including Un Chien Andalou in that list. Whassup with that? |
Definitely, a fair amount of inspiration for noir films actually came from overseas.
@ Others: But there is still definitely a distinction between neo-noir and film noir. If it came out in the last twenty years, its not a film noir. It may be a neo-noir, but its not a film noir. I'm not saying that in a derogoatory way or anything, but film noir was as much a time period in film as much as it was a genre. I just don't think it is at all accurate to say recent movies are film noirs.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
| quarashi said: I like Double Indemnity a lot. |
Like Night of the Hunter that is also one of my favorites too. And I liked the novel even better than the movie.
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