Anyone else like Film Noir?

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My favourite is Double Indemnity but I've seen it far too many times. I can remember the first time I saw it through and how brilliant it was.

Also, I haven't seen it for years and years, but loved Truffaut's "Vivement Dimanche", if you can call it film noir.

And Hitchcock (if his films can be called film noir, too).
 
Touch of Evil. Oooh yes!

Charlton Heston playing a Mexican! A damsel in distress! Zsa Zsa Gabor's beautiful face! Orson being bad!!! THAT tracking shot! :eek:

What more do you want!!!! :cool:
 
Double Indemnity is fantastic. LA Confidential is a v good current one.

Sunset Boulevard's probably my favourite noir.

EDITS: Oohh and more great ones have popped into my head. The original 'The Postman Always Rings Twice' and 'Chinatown.'

I love this thread. Noir is probably my favourite genre of film actually.
 
Strangers on a Train would have a much higher reputation if it had been made by a Frenchman or an Italian. It's art!
 
Ahhh yeah love it! There are some awesome Noir movies, the best are definatley those from the genre's most prominent period during the 1940's and especially the 1950's. My favourite has got to be "Double Indemnity". The amazing Barbara Stanwyck is incredible in it and that classic scene with MacMurray and the whole ''There's a speed limit in this state, Mr. Neff" is too cool for worRAB. Anyone who has seen it will know what I mean. Amazing direction by the genius Billy Wilder, too.

RE- the Gibson film from 1999, can we really consider it true Film Noir? I don't think so. Part of the whole noir thing was born out of the political lanRABcape of the time (1930's - 1960's). I don't consider any film out of this time frame to be true Film Noir I have to say. They may be in the style of noir, but they can't be considered true Noir if you ask me.
 
I love film noirs just for its weary, cynical world-view and the snappy patter. No matter how convoluted a plot might get the rapid fire dialogue usually entertains. A few of my faves are (and I've included some modern ones too)...

Detour
Kiss Me Deadly
Double Indemnity
Ace In The Hole
Night Of The Hunter
The Naked City
Dragnet (1954 movie)
The Last Boy Scout
Bound
Se7en
The Last Seduction
Red Rock West
Point Blank
Pete Kelly's Blues
 
Film Noir rocks. The two archetypal examples have already been mentioned - Touch of Evil and DOuble Indemnity, two of the best films ever made, period.

I also like a lot of the noir B-movies from the 40s and 50s like Night and the City, DOA, Detour, Nightmare Alley, that sort of thing. The Big Heat and the Asphalt jungle have just been released on DVD, by the way, I've got them on order.
 
Detour and The Asphalt Jungle are probably my favourites. Film Noir is great- Stylish, suspenseful, great stories.

Good to see Red Rock West listed. It's not an all time classic but very good modern attempt and very underrated. As is Blood Simple by the Coen Bros
 
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