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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Alphaville: Une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution
1965 — a.k.a. Alphaville, in 13 top lists Check -
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Les diaboliques
1955 — a.k.a. Diabolique, in 21 top lists Check -
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Following
1998, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Game
1997, in 3 top lists Check -
26 new
Tengoku to jigoku
1963 — a.k.a. High and Low, in 16 top lists Check -
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Insomnia
1997, in 2 top lists Check -
31 new
Aru kyôhaku
1960 — a.k.a. Intimidation, in 1 top list Check -
33 new
The Killers
1964, in 6 top lists Check -
36 new
Kiss Me Deadly
1955, in 20 top lists Check -
38 new
The Long Good Friday
1980, in 12 top lists Check -
44 new
Night and the City
1950, in 12 top lists Check -
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Sapphire
1959, in 3 top lists Check -
50 new
Le samouraï
1967 — a.k.a. Le Samouraï, in 20 top lists Check -
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'Jûsangô taihisen' yori: Sono gosôsha o nerae
1960 — a.k.a. Take Aim at the Police Van, in 2 top lists Check -
56 new
The Third Man
1949, in 37 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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