Down These Mean Streets A Man Must Go - The Film Noir Thread Any fans of film noir or hardboiled crime fiction? Post your recommendations, views and thoughts here. My favourites films are: "Kiss Me Deadly" "Double Indemnity" "The Postman Always Rings Twice" "The Big Sleep" "Farewell, My Lovely" "The Woman in the Window" "Mildred Pierce" "In A Lonely Place" "Gun Crazy" Fave writers: Raymond Chandler David Goodis Hammett Charles Williams James Ellroy James M.McCain Jim Thompson Cornell Woolrich |
5 Attachment(s) I have all the films you list MTDS, except Mildred Pierce, never seen that. All classics of course, i think my personal favourite of the list is In a Lonely Place. Bogart is outstanding. Other great ones you haven't mentioned are - Gilda This Gun For Hire Out of the Past The Blue Dahlia the Killers |
Hello Dem, "In A Lonely Place" is my favourite too, have you read the book it's based on, completely different ending to the film. I forgot "Sunset Boulevard" from my list, and how did I forget "Gilda". |
I just wanted to mention Sunset Boulevard... ;) |
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I thought This Gun For Hire and The Big Sleep were great films, Personal faves are Key Largo, The Killers and The Big Sleep but i'd rate Kubrick's The Killing, which i see as Film Noir above alot of them. |
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Saw Kiss Me Deadly earlier in the year - blew me away (like a nuclear blast ;)...)!!! Grabbed the Criterion straight after the first viewing. I'm on the lookout now for noir as nutty as that :shocked: . . . |
A few of my faves that haven't yet been mentioned... Chinatown High and Low The Maltese Falcon Sweet Smell of Success The Third Man L.A. Confidential is a decent modern noir, too. I really want to get into watching more noir, as it's fast becoming a favourite sub-genre of mine. There are a few mentioned here that I haven't seen, that I'm definitely going to seek out. :nod: |
There's a "new" James M. Cain book found, heard about it on NPR last week: Lost novel by noir giant James M Cain discovered | Books | guardian.co.uk |
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