Your favourite Noir films?
-
glen_esq — 9 years ago(February 08, 2017 01:58 PM)
I have posters (reproductions sadly) of these five hanging in our TV room, I reckon that makes them favourites.
Kiss Me Deadly
This Gun For Hire
Gun Crazy
Nightmare Alley
Brighton Rock (almost a noir, imdb lists it as a noir)
Kiss Me Deadly is one of the crazier films to come out of the 50s. -
FilioScotia — 9 years ago(February 08, 2017 02:47 PM)
I'm restricting my list of "noir" films to those made after WWII, when so many European and American films reflected the "social darkness" the world was facing in those years.
I put
White Heat (1949)
with James Cagney as the psychopathic Cody Jarrett at the top of my list. No other film of that period comes close to capturing the totally amoral mindset of the criminally inclined in an era when social and moral standards almost disappeared.
I'm really unsure whether
Night of the Hunter
(1954) falls into the "noir" category or not, but it seems to fit the prevailing "noir" template of those times. Imagine Cody Jarrett as a psychopath southern preacher.
I don't know if
The Naked City
(1948) fits into the "noir" template or not, but it is a wonderful exploration of urban police work in the early post-war era.
Most of my friends who have inferiority complexes are absolutely right. -
OldAle1 — 9 years ago(February 08, 2017 03:39 PM)
I won't debate the style vs genre, and I won't debate what years are acceptable, and whether or not it's an America-only thing; I'll just note that my own feeling is that "classic" noir extends roughly from '40-64 - a nice round 25 years, and that it's a worldwide phenomenon. So my list take these personal criteria into account - here are a top 25 roughly in order:
Krakatit
The Reckless Moment
Out of the Past
Touch of Evil
Bab el hadid / Cairo Station / The Iron Gate
Detour
Night of the Hunter
The Third Man
Christmas Holiday
Black Angel
Shadow of a Doubt
The Big Sleep
Try and Get Me
Sunset Blvd
Kiss of Death
Mildred Pierce
Champion
The Red House
The Lady from Shanghai
Act of Violence
The Scar / Hollow Triumph
Blues in the Night
The Naked Kiss
The Big Heat
The Seventh Victim
Here's to the fools who dream -
morrison-dylan-fan — 9 years ago(February 09, 2017 05:38 AM)
Awesome to see Krakatit on your list Ale! Florence Marly is such an underrated Femme Fatale,with Marly being stunning in Krakatit & The Damned,are there any other Marly movies you enjoy?
And to reply to your question on another thread,with you being a fan of Blaxploitation,I highly recommend the book Funky Bollywood,which looks at the unique "genre" films from 70's Bollywood,and is the only book on the subject (after half a dozen I've read) that has found a space on my shelf:
https://www.fabpress.com/funky-bollywood.html -
OldAle1 — 9 years ago(February 09, 2017 04:16 PM)
The only Marly films I've seen are
Krakatit
and
Queen of Blood
where she plays a VERY fatal femme of another kind.
Les maudits
is on my to-see list, someday. Looks like she didn't make that many films, and most of them look somewhat hard to find.
Here's to the fools who dream -
rcocean3 — 9 years ago(February 08, 2017 07:01 PM)
Of course, you get into a problem. What is a film noir and what is crime film? (Wasn't there some CFB/FG old timer who kept running around making fun of Film Noir?)
The Third Man
The Lady from Shanghai
The Big Heat
Elevator the Gallows
Night and the City
Odd Man Out
DOA
The Narrow Margin
The Killers
Laura
Pickup on South Street
The Set Up
Quai des Orfèvres
The Singing Detective -
morrison-dylan-fan — 9 years ago(February 09, 2017 05:09 AM)
Hi Maddy,I hope you are having a good week,and want to say that I would like you to pm details on your upcoming blog. For my top Noir's (not counting Neo or other Noir sub-genres) my top 20 (in no order) are:
1: Chair de poule ( Julien Duvivier)
2: Classe Tous Risques ( Claude Sautet )
3: Casque d'Or (Jacques Becker)
4: Death of a Killer (Robert Hossein )
5: Krakatit ( Otakar Vávra)
6: Panic (Julien Duvivier)
7: Night Is Not for Sleep (Robert Hossein)
8: The Damned (Rene Clement)
9: Who Killed Santa Claus? (Christian-Jaque)
10:The 7th Juror ( Georges Lautner)
11: Razzia sur la chnouf ( Henri Decoin)
12: Le monte-charge (Marcel Bluwal)
13: Goupi mains rouges (Jacques Becker)
14:Manon (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
15: Assassins et voleurs (Sacha Guitry)
16: Retour de manivelle ( Denys de La Patellière)
17: Le Jour se Leve (Marcel Carné)
18: Pépé le Moko (Julien Duvivier)
19: The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
20: Terrain vague (Marcel Carné) -
kijii — 9 years ago(February 09, 2017 08:33 AM)
If I could only pick one it would be
Double Indemnity
(1944). It has all the basic elements of film noir, in spades. Femme Fatale, etc.
I just love the way Edward G. Robinson was constantly (and unknowingly) worked against the truth of what happened and the way he kept after the insurance fraud case.
Billy Wilder had a wide range. -
spiderwort — 9 years ago(February 09, 2017 03:57 PM)
Without a doubt my all-time favorites are
Double Indemnity, Laura
and
Out of the Past
.
But from your list I also really love
Pickup on South Sreet, Farewell My Lovely, This Gun for Hire
, and
The Dark Corner
.
And then there are these I can't leave out:
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Crossfire
, and
Kiss of Death
.
The time of the singing of the birds has come. -
skovp — 9 years ago(February 11, 2017 01:01 AM)
I love film noirs, though I have 'only' seen, according to IMDb, 114 of them. My favorites are the following.
Double Indemnity (1944)
Out of the Past (1947)
Scarlet Street (1945)
The Killing (1956)
The Reckless Moment (1949)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
The Big Heat (1953)
Too Late for Tears (1949)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Kiss of Death (1947)
Act of Violence (1949)
The Woman in the Window (1944)
The Night of the Hunter (1955) & Sunset Boulevard (1950) (if you consider them film noir)
So many more I want to include, but these are some of my most often watched and most beloved.
My All-Time Favorite Movies:
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls031367581/