Hm... I dunno. There are a lot of films here that I wouldn't count as film noir like Scarface. I don't understand why people keep asking where Chinatown is either.
imdb lists The Racket (1928) and The Maltese Falcon (1931) as the first two film-noirs. The end of film-noir is more abrupt: Nothing after 1958 is counted as film-noir. (That's the year of Welles' Touch of Evil.)
So Murder by Contract, which was released in December 1958 is the last film which imdb counts as a film-noir.
Haven't seen a single movie in this list. Most of them I didn't even now existed! "Film-noir" eh? Maybe I should give it a try. Which one would someone recommend first?
Obviously because some people have a overly broad definition of film noir. To me and many others it's a style of film that is tied to America and a very specific timeframe in history. There are only very few exceptions like Rififi for example which was done by an American director who was expelled from Hollywood.
Noir like or noir inspired would be a more fitting description for the films that you watch in your course.
Don't get me wrong Les Diaboliques is great but it just doesn't belong on this list imo.
In other news imdb just sorted out some of the foreign films from this list.
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Rocket-Queen
Hm... I dunno. There are a lot of films here that I wouldn't count as film noir like Scarface. I don't understand why people keep asking where Chinatown is either.greenhorg
imdb lists The Racket (1928) and The Maltese Falcon (1931) as the first two film-noirs. The end of film-noir is more abrupt: Nothing after 1958 is counted as film-noir. (That's the year of Welles' Touch of Evil.)So Murder by Contract, which was released in December 1958 is the last film which imdb counts as a film-noir.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051959/
JoeMorrissy
Ermm Candeku, i dont think you know what film noir is if you think Cape Fear belongs on this list.candeku
Cape Fear?tenderoni
I don't think Citizen Kane or Casablanca count as film noirs!Jumping Elephant
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it's on every listvishnu
@RavenWolfgo for THE KILLING (1956) first...
RavenWolf
Haven't seen a single movie in this list. Most of them I didn't even now existed! "Film-noir" eh? Maybe I should give it a try. Which one would someone recommend first?ronin48
film noir...american....B & W..started with LAURA..ended with TOUCH OF EVIL...1944-1959...IMHO!!Knaldskalle
Both "Pepe Le Moko" and "Le Jour se Leve" are generally thought of as Poetic Realism.stimodin
They took out the Kurosawa film and my lists compleete again, but i guess I´ll have to se the Kurosawa film of other reasons....Flowneppets
Obviously because some people have a overly broad definition of film noir. To me and many others it's a style of film that is tied to America and a very specific timeframe in history. There are only very few exceptions like Rififi for example which was done by an American director who was expelled from Hollywood.Noir like or noir inspired would be a more fitting description for the films that you watch in your course.
Don't get me wrong Les Diaboliques is great but it just doesn't belong on this list imo.
In other news imdb just sorted out some of the foreign films from this list.
hjfisher
So why do we study it on my European Film Noir course then?hjfisher
I'm completely amazed Les Diaboliques isn't on here!Showing items 16 – 30 of 44