Criterion Collection Themes - Noir and Neonoir
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Some call it a genre, others a movement, or even a fashion statement, but however one defines noir, with its signature femmes fatales, wisecracking tough guys, and dramatic, high-contrast cinematography, its appeal never seems to wane. Though its origins are in German expressionism and French crime films of the thirties, film noir has always been a distinctly American film movement, influenced and shaped as it was by American pulp fiction, wartime gender politics, and postwar nuclear anxieties. And since its forties and fifties heyday, the legacy of noir has spread everywhere—from Kurosawa (High and Low) to the French new wave (Alphaville) to the proliferation of “neonoirs” in the eighties (Coup de torchon) and nineties (Insomnia). Color may have seeped into noir’s rich gray palette over the years, but some things never change: anxiety, disillusionment, panic.
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7 new
Koroshi no rakuin
1967 — a.k.a. Branded to Kill, in 8 top lists Check -
12 new
Koruto wa ore no pasupooto
1967 — a.k.a. A Colt Is My Passport, in 3 top lists Check -
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Kenjû zankoku monogatari
1964 — a.k.a. Cruel Gun Story, in 2 top lists Check -
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Sabita naifu
1958 — a.k.a. Rusty Knife, in 2 top lists Check -
53 new
'Jûsangô taihisen' yori: Sono gosôsha o nerae
1960 — a.k.a. Take Aim at the Police Van, in 2 top lists Check -
54 new
Thief
1981, in 5 top lists Check -
57 new
Tôkyô nagaremono
1966 — a.k.a. Tokyo Drifter, in 6 top lists Check -
58 new
Touchez pas au grisbi
1954 — a.k.a. Hands Off the Loot, in 5 top lists Check -
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Yajû no seishun
1963 — a.k.a. Youth of the Beast, in 3 top lists Check
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