Film noir: your favourites

I haven't seen it, no. I don't think I ever really watched the other feature either.

Has anyone got the recut of Touch Of Evil? Is it worth paying more for over the original?

Absolutely.

Redd, I don't believe Loretta Young is in it.

Touch of Evil is great if you can stand charlton heston.

it's tough to beat Out of the Past, although the faulkner-penned Big Sleep is classic, too (although the plot literally does not make any sense). I'm also a huge fan of Night and the City and Asphalt Jungle.

An interesting but unsuccessful noir is Dark Passage with Bogey and Bacall, which features a lot of 1st-person shots. Agnes Moorhead is great in it, however.

noirs i dislike: Force of Evil, The Postman Always Rings Twice (both John Garfield vehicles), Cat People (despite its alleged influence), Angel Heart (neo-noir).

Curse of the Cat People is better than plain old Cat People.

noirs i dislike: Force of Evil

!!!!

Yar, The Big Sleep film is tough to follow, but that's down to the production code.

The I Love Film noir thread is pretty good; here's the link if it's not already upthread: film noir

Morbius, have you seen that Danish movie that's at FF now?

no.

boo Force of Evil. yay Touch of Evil.

another borderline noir is Kurosawa's High and Low, although a proper noir has to end more pessimistically.

No mention here of D.O.A., which I saw last night. Man walks into police station, claims he's been murdered, then in classic noir fashion the whole movie is in flashback. It's not quite up there with the best noirs (Double Indemnity, Laura, etc.), but it's pretty terrific and almost an A-Z of noir tropes - flashback structure, protagonist doomed from the start, femme fatale/wholesome girl binary, urban paranoia...

Double Indemnity and Touch of Evil are my shit. All-time.

hells yeah, BIG HOOS.

Time to rep for Preminger's Fallen Angel and Where the Sidewalk Ends.

'the big heat' ftw

Naked City was better than I'd expected.

Just saw Murder, My Sweet. Pretty great. I'm still trying to work out the plot.

So awesome that Netflix has its own section for this. Just watched "Woman in the Window", which was okay.

Now have "The Asphalt Jungle" running.

Asphalt Jungle
Le Doulos
The Second Breath
hell - basically just about all Melville that involves a raincoat or gun somewhere
Double Indemnity
T-Men
let's see...

Too many to mention but it's my fave genre

Gotta be The Third Man.

IIRC, Scarlet Street is basically the same movie as Woman in the Window but better. Maybe it's the other way around though. Another Lang/Lorre american noir with a similar plot.

Is Woman in the Window the one where he wakes up at the end and it's all been a dream? Cos that's a shitty shitty ending.

yes, that's the one.

It's a shitty ending, but the rest of the movie is really good.

Joan Bennett is excellent.

'Out of the Past' anyone?

one of the best.

I think I quoted about half the dialogue of OOTP on the other thread.

in the french noir department: elevator to the gallows

Preminger made several goodies: Laura, Angel Face, Where The Sidewalk Ends, Fallen Angel.

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Yup. With the grebt Miles soundtrack with the grebt Pierre Michelot on bass. Speaking of gallows, the original title of Out Of The Past was Built My Gallows High. Well, title of the novel it was adapted from.

in the french noir department: elevator to the gallows

If only for the soundtrack...

re crap ending of Woman In The Window, Wikipedia says: "Director Fritz Lang substituted the film's dream ending in place of the originally scripted suicide ending, to conform with the moralistic Production Code of the time." So blame it on the Hays Code.

third man, big sleep, point blank, chinatown, all the obvious stuff.

Not to derail totally, but speaking of 'Elevator to the Gallows' (and Maurice Ronet), has anybody ever seen 'Le Feu Follet'?

I'm glad detour was rated by a couple people, but can't believe no one's mentioned gun crazy so far.

Scarlet Street is basically the same movie as Woman in the Window but better. Maybe it's the other way around though. Another Lang/Lorre american noir

no, SS is better (and it's Eddie G, not Lorre).

I picked up Le Feu Follet on video for a couple bucks awhile back, but haven't watched it yet. Criterion's doing a DVD in May

Sweet! I haven't seen it in eons.

love the cover on the old vhs

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/guncrazy.jpg

Also, 'The Maltese Falcon'. There's actually a reproduction of 'the stuff dreams are made of' leering down from the top of a bookcase in my house.

'Maltese Falcon' is my favourite film.

I was reading about Flitcraft just the other day in the intro to The Continental Op.

Auteur Noir from Italy:

Chronicle of A Love Affair-Antonioni's take on The Postman Always... Lucia Bosé is the femme fatale.

Il Bidone-Fellini's noir about three conmen (Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, & Franco Fabrizi) who prey on Italy's poor. The final act, wherein Crawford attempts a last score without the aid of his comrades, is relentlessly brutal.

This is going on in LA for the next couple of weeks:
http://www.americancinematheque.com/archive1999/2008/Egyptian/Film_Noir-2008.htm

What's the one with Edward Robinson as a guy who drops out of his day job to paint and murder?

Seen recently and loved: Detour, DOA, The Killing, Thieves' Highway, Gun Crazy, Panic in the Streets (a couple of these probably not usually considered noir, but they're so full of NIGHT and GUNS and BARS and JAZZ that I don't care).

Thieves' Highway is weird--one of the few SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER Hollyowwod/Hays code era movies which ends with the hero ditching his 'good' WASP girlfriend and ending up with the foreign hooker.

What's the one with Edward Robinson as a guy who drops out of his day job to paint and murder?

That's Scarlet Street.