Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Harmonia (A) on February 19, 2008 at 20:41:23

In Reply to: RE: "Detour:" rated as highly as any in the noir genre, this one boasts posted by tinear on February 19, 2008 at 16:45:17

Ann Savage's femme fatale inflicts cruelties upon Tom Neal's hitchhiker, and he seems to like being on the receiving end as much as she relishes dishing it out.

A wonderful, nasty little noir, reputedly shot in only a week.

You wondered a few days ago if anyone else here like noir.

I do. A lot. I'm a sick puppoy for likeing as many of the bad guys and gals as much as I do.

I sometimes have trouble deciding if a certain movie is a noir, or crime drama, or thriller or something else altogether. Where do you put something like Ossessione? Then there's proto noi like Renoir's Le Bete Humaine. What exactly is Suspicion - noir? Drama? Melodrama??? Strangers On A Train? Among modern films, where do you classify Miller's Crossing? (At least I know where to put Blood Simple.) I often see The Third Man listed as noir but I personally don't feel that it is, not truly, although it is a great film.

So here are most of my faves:

The Maltese Falcon
The Asphalt Jungle
Pick-Up On South Street
Kiss Me Deadly
Ace In The Hole
The Big Sleep
Out of The Past
Notorious
Shadow Of A Doubt
On Dangerous Ground
In A Lonely Place
Criss Cross
The Big Heat
Scarlet Street
Night & The City
Rififi
They Live By Night
Nightmare Alley
Act of Violence
Born To Kill
The Setup
The Killing
Touch of Evil
Bob le flambeur
Stray Dog

Favorite modern noirs include:

The Grifters
Blood Simple
Chinatown
LA Confidential (yeah, I know, the ending)

Also enjoy but not love...
Body Heat
Red Rock West
The Last Seduction