A throroughly modern romance...

Films/DVD Asylum

Movies from comedy to drama to your favorite Hollyweird Star.

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

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Topic - "Detour:" rated as highly as any in the noir genre, this one boasts - tinear 16:45:17 02/19/08 (11)

Edgar G. Ulmer - The Duke 12:55:43 02/20/08 (1)

I just saw "Detour" for the second time and I found it to be MUCH - tinear 13:36:28 02/20/08 (0)

A throroughly modern romance... - Harmonia 20:41:23 02/19/08 (1)

Here's a terrific thread from a few year's back which - tinear 01:01:13 02/20/08 (0)

"...art shouldn't debase humanity." - SF tech 20:17:03 02/19/08 (6)

RE: "...art shouldn't debase humanity." - grinagog 01:08:49 02/20/08 (0)

And you base your opinions about my beliefs exactly on... what? nt - tinear 00:54:14 02/20/08 (2)

I was just referring to your commentary below... - SF tech 12:31:02 02/20/08 (1)

RE: I was just referring to your commentary below... - tinear 13:38:14 02/20/08 (0)

especially as... - dave c 21:23:08 02/19/08 (1)

all hail the debauched art form... (nt) - SF tech 22:39:12 02/19/08 (0)

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A throroughly modern romance... - Harmonia 20:41:23 02/19/08 (1)

Here's a terrific thread from a few year's back which - tinear 01:01:13 02/20/08 (0)

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