Out of SightInvestigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion25th HourMichael ClaytonGhost Dog: The Way of the SamuraiMona LisaWitnessEnemy of the StateZodiacLeonFargoRiver's Edge
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 11 March 2018 19:51 (six years ago) link
The Woman in the WindowThe Big HeatThe Late Show
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 11 March 2018 19:51 (six years ago) link
The Long Kiss GoodnightPulp Fiction
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 11 March 2018 20:04 (six years ago) link
Silence of the LambsIn BrugesMulholland DriveDevil in a Blue DressInherent ViceLong GoodbyeGaslight (1944)
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 March 2018 20:06 (six years ago) link
Who'll Stop The Rain?Cutter's WayHouse of Bamboo52 Pick-UpCharley VarrickThe Taking of Pelham One Two Three
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 11 March 2018 20:15 (six years ago) link
no need to specify a year for that last one
― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 11 March 2018 20:18 (six years ago) link
Running Scared (1986)
― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 11 March 2018 20:20 (six years ago) link
the french connectionse7en manhunter
― piscesx, Sunday, 11 March 2018 20:22 (six years ago) link
the untouchables
Memories of a MurderLock, Stock and Two Smoking BarrelsTo Die ForGun CrazyTell No OneLift to the ScaffoldKiss of DeathDriveDetourThe LimeySexy BeastOdd Man OutThe KillersThe Woman in the Window
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 11 March 2018 20:29 (six years ago) link
OK I can already see that we need to agree on a title for Ascenseur pour l'échafaud before everyone votes
― scotti pruitti (wins), Sunday, 11 March 2018 20:32 (six years ago) link
House of GamesThiefJohnny HandsomeThe HitThe Long Good FridayThe Good ThiefThe Cotton ClubAtlantic City
― omar little, Sunday, 11 March 2018 20:45 (six years ago) link
Out of the Past = Build My Gallows High, in the UK
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 11 March 2018 20:45 (six years ago) link
― scotti pruitti (wins), Sunday, March 11, 2018 1:32 PM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Rise Up to the Noose
― omar little, Sunday, 11 March 2018 20:46 (six years ago) link
The Killing
― calzino, Sunday, 11 March 2018 20:59 (six years ago) link
Le Deuxième souffle
― calzino, Sunday, 11 March 2018 21:01 (six years ago) link
I'm sure that all the usual suspects will be nominated--pun half-intended--so I'll wait till the end to see if anything I'd vote for is missing. I'll nominate one thing I think will be overlooked, primarily because it exists at the edge of noir: Rounders. To me, gambling-related films belong.
― clemenza, Sunday, 11 March 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link
Mesrine: Public Enemy#1/Killer Instinct
probably trash, but I loved it at the time.
― calzino, Sunday, 11 March 2018 21:13 (six years ago) link
Your thread title was so familiar: "Is that in something I've seen in the past week or so?" Had to look it up, and yes, it is.
― clemenza, Sunday, 11 March 2018 21:15 (six years ago) link
Stray DogHigh and LowNight of the HunterNotoriousElleThe Killing of a Chinese BookieBranded to KillElectionGood TimeBlue VelvetCriss Cross
― devvvine, Sunday, 11 March 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link
While I remember, another one that may be missed: Raw Deal from 1948. Some of the best noir cinematography ever.
― clemenza, Sunday, 11 March 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link
asphalt jungle
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Sunday, 11 March 2018 21:45 (six years ago) link
man this is gonna be a tougggghhhhh ballot
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 11 March 2018 21:50 (six years ago) link
While I remember, another one that may be missed: Raw Deal from 1948. Some of the best noir cinematography ever.― clemenza, Sunday, March 11, 2018 5:22 PM (thirty-seven minutes ago)
― clemenza, Sunday, March 11, 2018 5:22 PM (thirty-seven minutes ago)
― Whiney On The Moog (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 11 March 2018 22:01 (six years ago) link
Drunken Angel
a little bit of early Kurasawa/Mifune.
― calzino, Sunday, 11 March 2018 22:01 (six years ago) link
(xpost) Yes--a whole section on him in Visions of Light, as I recall (or maybe it was Scorsese's documentary on American film).
― clemenza, Sunday, 11 March 2018 22:47 (six years ago) link
i think pretty much all my faves are listed.hmm.
add,Payday (really a character study more than a crime film, but the climax imo is the comission of a murder.Night Moves (1975)
and say what u will about tarantino, but no one has bothered to nominate jackie brown or reservoir dogs?
― ian, Sunday, 11 March 2018 22:56 (six years ago) link
oh, THE HOT ROCK!
― ian, Sunday, 11 March 2018 22:57 (six years ago) link
Straw Dogs.
― ian, Sunday, 11 March 2018 22:58 (six years ago) link
blade runnertotal recall
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Sunday, 11 March 2018 23:00 (six years ago) link
^^ Thinking outside the box! I like it!
― ian, Sunday, 11 March 2018 23:01 (six years ago) link
make it a trilogy ill rep for minority report all day
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Sunday, 11 March 2018 23:02 (six years ago) link
rewatched last year, enjoyed.
― ian, Sunday, 11 March 2018 23:03 (six years ago) link
the 39 steps
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Sunday, 11 March 2018 23:06 (six years ago) link
Night and the CityLaura
― burzum buddies (brownie), Sunday, 11 March 2018 23:23 (six years ago) link
Ace in the HoleThe Big ClockThe Breaking PointDouble IndemnityI ConfessJackie BrownKey LargoSweet Smell of SuccessSunset Blvd. Taxi Driver
― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Sunday, 11 March 2018 23:38 (six years ago) link
My idea of a true '70s noir, as much or even more than The Long Goodbye or Chinatown or Night Moves: The Conversation.
― clemenza, Monday, 12 March 2018 00:07 (six years ago) link
The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)Underworld (1927)The Docks of New York (1928)Thunderbolt (1929)Asphalt (1929)The Informer (1929)Private Detective 62 (1933)Woman in the Dark (1934)Fury (1936)They Drive by Night (UK, 1938)Le Jour Se Leve (1938)Panama Lady (1939)Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Monday, 12 March 2018 00:13 (six years ago) link
Family Plot
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 12 March 2018 00:53 (six years ago) link
control F Frenzy, nope.
Frenzy
― calzino, Monday, 12 March 2018 00:58 (six years ago) link
A lot of the (often deservedly) better-known choices already made here, but don't sleep on this:
Act of Violence---1948, dir. Fred Zinneman, starring Robert Ryan, Van Heflin, Janet Leigh, Phyllis Thaxter, and Mary Astor. (In her autobiography, A Life on Film, Astor recalled filming her scenes for Act of Violence while simultaneously shooting Little Women: "For two weeks or so I was with the Zinnemann company playing a sleazy, aging whore, with Van Heflin and Robert Ryan. It was such a contrast that it was stimulating---and reviving...." Thanks, TCM.com!). Shit you can't take back, no matter how much you pay, in a star-spangled postwar suburban way or otherwise---crisis of the intractable, locked gears, friction grips, film fucking noir. (I got a bit tired of the earnest running around that Leigh, Astor, and Thaxter have to do, but the guys do it too, in a grimmer way, all in the maze.)
― dow, Thursday, July 6, 2017
― dow, Monday, 12 March 2018 01:04 (six years ago) link
That's from Last (X) Movies You Saw, which I think is also where forks and I got into a discussion of Nightmare Alley, go watch it now.
― dow, Monday, 12 March 2018 01:12 (six years ago) link
man, ONE FALSE MOVE! i haven't thought of that movie in so long and now i really need to see it. wow. and THE LAST SEDUCTION too. just the first post in this thread has me scrambling.
― scott seward, Monday, 12 March 2018 01:15 (six years ago) link
Cynda Williams!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 March 2018 01:16 (six years ago) link
i watched GUN CRAZY three times last year.
yes, Cynda! man. so great.
― scott seward, Monday, 12 March 2018 01:17 (six years ago) link
All the President's Men, because of the garage-freak--minus him, maybe not.
― clemenza, Monday, 12 March 2018 01:18 (six years ago) link
there are really too many good movies mentioned on this thread. would be too hard to make a definitive list.
― scott seward, Monday, 12 March 2018 01:18 (six years ago) link
So many things to watch. So little time.
― ian, Monday, 12 March 2018 01:21 (six years ago) link
so many sterling hayden movies...
― scott seward, Monday, 12 March 2018 01:24 (six years ago) link
kinda feel like film noir should have its own poll. so many amazing movies.
The Black Hand
^^^
apparently this is the very first mafia movie
― calzino, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 18:54 (six years ago) link
Ichi the KillerDeath of Honor (both Fukasaku + Miike versions)Gonin (T. Ishii, feat. Kitano)A Better Tomorrow (and sequels)Dangerous Encouters First Kind (incredible Tsui Hark thriller w/mercenaries, Triad members and teen anarchists)Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead (starring Victoria Abril)Black Caesar
― gjoon1, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 01:12 (six years ago) link
the good the bad the weird
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 01:18 (six years ago) link
Thrillers that didn't more comfortably fit into either the action or horror poll would be a fair way to interpret that.― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.)
This seems like a reasonable test; The Silent Partner, the Canadian film from the late '70s, passes.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 02:38 (six years ago) link
I nominated Vertigo, second North By Northwest, Rope, Rear Window, Strangers On A Train, which was based on young Patricia Highsmith's first hit, and reminds me of The Talented Mr. Riply (the only Ripley movie I've seen, hoping for more to be made dammit! Incl. The Boy Who Followed Ripley).Amen also of course to Bande à part, Breathless, and add Cruel Story of Youth, from 1960, when Oshima was a punk following Godard.
― dow, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 03:49 (six years ago) link
ooh I have a nomThe Interview (1998)I actually want to specifically lobby for this & encourage ppl to check it out. It’s on Netflix right now - australian movie starring Hugo Weaving & Tony Martin. It’s SO good, maybe my favorite Weaving performance ever. Please to watch!!!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 04:57 (six years ago) link
the list is updated!
my only request henceforth is to please try to nominate separately from discussions, as VG did above. I think I've caught everything but I don't want to miss anything. I think that's why I missed Rounders the first time around.
another dozen nominations from me:
Mean StreetsThe DepartedPrince of the CitySerpicoFreshNew Jack CityKing of New YorkMiami BluesState of GraceWe Own the NightAmerican MeDeep Cover
― omar little, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 05:39 (six years ago) link
omar otm:how did we miss Serps until now?gotta have Serp.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 05:48 (six years ago) link
Departed is otm for this genre but it is also so much in my rearview that idk if i care to even rewatch it ever again.Something about 00’s movies often has that quality for me
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 05:50 (six years ago) link
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)Ripper of a movie.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 06:50 (six years ago) link
Purple Moon is nominated, should be Purple Noon.
― WilliamC, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 12:37 (six years ago) link
No Johnnie To/Milkyway yet (aside from Election)?:Too Many Ways To Be No. 1 (solo Wai Ka Fai)The Longest Night (Patrick Yau)A Hero Never Dies (To/Wai)The Mission Exiled
― gjoon1, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 22:43 (six years ago) link
More Hong Kong:The Killer (John Woo)My Heart is that Eternal Rose (despite title, def. gangsters - directed by Wong Kar-wai mentor Patrick Tam)Final Victory (more Tam, co-scripted by Wong this time -- supposedly intended as part of a trilogy with As Tears Go By-- also features Tsui Hark as a crime boss!)On The Run (Alfred Cheung, starring Yuen Biao as cop and Pat Ha as hitwoman)Taiwan:Goodbye South Goodbye (Hou Hsiao-hsien - basically a remake of Mean Streets, except with pig smuggling)
― gjoon1, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 22:49 (six years ago) link
more noms:
Drug War (Johnnie To)Cape FearThe Night of the HunterBad LieutenantElection 2 aka Triad Election
a pair of outstandingly great Korean crime films:
Nameless GangsterNew World
― omar little, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 20:29 (six years ago) link
updated nominations list! keep 'em coming. I'll leave this open for awhile yet.
please let me know if I missed something you nominated, too.
12 Angry Men25th Hour52 Pick-UpA Better TomorrowA Better Tomorrow IIA Better Tomorrow IIIA Colt Is My PassportA Fish Called WandaA Hero Never DiesA ProphetA Short Film About KillingA Simple PlanAccident (2009)Ace in the HoleAct of ViolenceAll the President's MenAlphavilleAmerican MeAngel FaceAnimal KingdomArmy of ShadowsAsphalt (1929)Atlantic CityBad Day at Black RockBad LieutenantBad Lieutenant: Port of Call New OrleansBadlandsBande à partBasic InstinctBatman ReturnsBattles Without Honour and HumanityBig Deal on Madonna StreetBig Guns/Tony ArzentaBitter MoonBlack CaesarBlade RunnerBlast of SilenceBlood SimpleBlue RuinBlue VelvetBob le FlambeurBoiling PointBonnie and ClydeBoundBranded to KillBreathlessBrickBrighton RockBring Me the Head of Alfredo GarciaBrute ForceCall Northside 777Cape Fear (1962)Carlito’s WayCash on DemandCasinoCatch Me If You CanCharley VarrickChina MoonChinatownCity On FireClash By NightClasses Tous RisquesClueCollateralCopCrime Wave (1954)Crime Wave (1985, John Paizs)Criss CrossCroupierCruel Story of YouthCutter's WayDamnationDangerous Encouters First KindDark CityDas BootDead CalmDead HeatDead Man's ShoesDeath of Honor (Fukasaku)Death of Honor (Miike)Deep CoverDeep RedDetourDevil in a Blue DressDial M For MurderDirty HarryDivaDog Day AfternoonDouble IndemnityDr. Mabuse the GamblerDriveDrug WarDrunken AngelEastern PromisesElectionElection 2, aka Triad ElectionElevator to the GallowsElleEmergency SquadEnd of WatchEnemy of the StateEuropaExiledFamily PlotFantomasFargoFinal VictoryForce of EvilFrenzyFreshFury (1936)Gaslight (1940)Gaslight (1944)Get Carter (1971)Ghost Dog: The Way of the SamuraiGildaGone Baby GoneGone GirlGoninGood TimeGoodbye South GoodbyeGoodfellasGreen For DangerGun CrazyHana-biHangover SquareHard CandyHeatHell is a CityHell or High WaterHigh and LowHitmanHomicideHouse of BambooHouse of GamesI ConfessIchi the KillerIl DivoIn a Lonely PlaceIn BrugesInfernal AffairsInfernal Affairs IIInherent ViceInsomnia (1997)Into The NightInvestigation of a Citizen Above SuspicionIt Always Rains on SundayJackie BrownJohnny DangerouslyJohnny HandsomeJumping Jack FlashKansas CityKansas City ConfidentialKey LargoKiller JoeKing of New YorkKiss Kiss Bang BangKiss Me DeadlyKiss of DeathL.A. ConfidentialL'argentLa BalanceLa CeremonieLauraLe BoucherLe Cercle RougeLe CorbeauLe Deuxième souffleLe DoulosLe Jour Se Leve (1938)Le SamouraiLe TrouLeave Her to HeavenLeon / The ProfessionalLes DiaboliquesLes Vampires (1915-16)Light SleeperLittle CaesarLittle MurdersLock, Stock and Two Smoking BarrelsMManhunterMean StreetsMementoMemories of MurderMesrine: Public Enemy#1/Killer InstinctMiami BluesMichael ClaytonMilano Calibro 9Miller's CrossingMona LisaMulholland DriveMurder By ContractMurder, My SweetMy Heart is that Eternal RoseNameless GangsterNew Jack CityNew WorldNight and the CityNight MovesNight of the HunterNight Train to MunichNightcrawlerNightmare AlleyNo Country For Old MenNo Orchids for Miss BlandishNobody Will Speak of Us When We're DeadNon-StopNorth By NorthwestNotoriousOdd Man OutOldboyOn Dangerous GroundOn The RunOn the WaterfrontOne False MoveOut of SightOut of the PastPanama Lady (1939)Panic RoomPaniquePaper MoonPaydayPeeping TomPepe le MokoPerfect BluePetrified ForestPickpocketPickup on South StreetPierrot le fouPigs & BattleshipsPitfallPoint BlankPolice (1985)Pool Of LondonPort of ShadowsPrince of the CityPrivate Detective 62 (1933)Pulp FictionPurple NoonPusherPusher II: With Blood On My HandsPusher III: I'm the Angel of DeathQuai des OrfèvresRaw Deal (1948)Rear WindowRed Riding 1980Red Rock WestReservoir DogsRevolverRififiRiver's EdgeRobberyRoninRopeRoundersRun Lola RunRunning Scared (1986)SalesmanSalvatore GiulianoSatan Met a LadyScarface (1932)Scarface (1983)Scarlet StreetSe7enSerie NoireSerpicoSexy BeastShadow of a DoubtShaft (1971)Shoot the Piano PlayerSide StreetSnake EyesSonatineSpellboundState of GraceStranger on the Third Floor (1940)Strangers on a TrainStraw DogsStray DogSubwaySunset Blvd.Sweet Smell of SuccessTaxi DriverTell No OneTenebraeThe 1951 version of MThe 39 StepsThe American FriendThe Anderson TapesThe Asphalt JungleThe Big ClockThe Big ComboThe Big EasyThe Big HeatThe Big LebowskiThe Big SleepThe Bird With the Crystal PlumageThe Black Hand (1906)The Breaking PointThe ConversationThe Cotton ClubThe CriminalThe DepartedThe Docks of New York (1928)The French ConnectionThe Friends of Eddie CoyleThe FugitiveThe General (1998)The Getaway (1972)The GodfatherThe Godfather Pt. IIThe Godfather Pt. IIIThe Good ThiefThe Good, the Bad, and the WeirdThe GriftersThe Grissom GangThe HandmaidenThe HiddenThe High Sign (1921)The HitThe Hitch HikerThe Honeymoon KillersThe Hot RockThe Human BeastThe Hunt For Red OctoberThe In-LawsThe Informer (1929)The InterviewThe Italian ConnectionThe KillerThe Killers (1946)The Killers (1964)The KillingThe Killing of a Chinese BookieThe Lady from ShanghaiThe Ladykillers (1955)The Last SeductionThe Late ShowThe League of GentlemanThe LimeyThe Line-UpThe LodgerThe Long Good FridayThe Long GoodbyeThe Long Kiss GoodnightThe Longest Night The Maltese Falcon (1931)The Maltese Falcon (1941)The Man UpstairsThe Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)The Manchurian Candidate (1962)The Manchurian Candidate (2004)The MissionThe Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)The Naked CityThe Naked KissThe Night of the HunterThe OffenceThe Outside Man/Un Homme Est MortThe PassengerThe Phenix City StoryThe Poseidon AdventureThe Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)The Public EnemyThe RaidThe Raid 2The Set-UpThe Ship That Died Of ShameThe Silence of the LambsThe Silent PartnerThe Small World Of Sammy LeeThe Spanish PrisonerThe StingThe Story of Temple DrakeThe Strange Love of Martha IversThe StrangerThe Taking of Pelham One Two ThreeThe Thin ManThe Third ManThe TrialThe Two JakesThe UntouchablesThe Vanishing (1988)The Wages of FearThe Woman in the WindowThey Drive by Night (UK, 1938)They Live By NightThiefThieves HighwayThis Gun for HireThree Days of the CondorThunderbolt (1929)Tinker Tailor Soldier SpyTo Die ForTokyo DrifterToo Many Ways To Be No. 1 Total RecallTouch of EvilTouchez pas au GrisbiTraumaTwo Lane BlacktopUnderworld (1927)Underworld USAVengeance is MineVertigoViolent CopWe Own the NightWhile the City SleepsWhite HeatWho Framed Roger Rabbit?Who'll Stop The Rain?Wind RiverWitnessWitness for the ProsecutionWoman in the Dark (1934)YojimboZZodiac
― omar little, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 20:30 (six years ago) link
Angels with Dirty FacesThe Asphalt JungleThe KillingMikey & NickyThe Public Enemy
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link
What happened with this?
― clemenza, Monday, 2 April 2018 02:13 (six years ago) link
Shh! I wanted (re)watch time!
― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Monday, 2 April 2018 02:14 (six years ago) link
Noms still open, what happened is people have slowed their roll a bit.
I'm nominating
Miami Vice
― omar little, Monday, 2 April 2018 02:20 (six years ago) link
(xpost)
Kidding, of course. I could probably put together a nice ballot of 30-40 movies off the top of my head, but there are a good number of key films that I really should watch before voting, plus a handful of things that I haven't seen in years. Ideally, I'd love to spend a good month doing a deep dive into the genre, but dissertation chapter, grading, life, etc would never permit that.
― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Monday, 2 April 2018 02:23 (six years ago) link
sorry guys, I haven't dropped the ball on this, but I've been busy.
are there enough people interested in this thing to make it a viable endeavor?
― omar little, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
I'd drop a ballot, yeah.
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
I missed this but would probably vote. category seems... pretty broad
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 18:32 (five years ago) link
Totally, in favour of a long voting period though
― devvvine, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 18:32 (five years ago) link
Big yes to both participating and a long voting period.
― incel elgort (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 18:33 (five years ago) link
the category can be as broad as anyone wants but i do recommend some self-restraint in some instances.
and the most serious crime would be not voting!
― omar little, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 18:36 (five years ago) link
This prob deserves a nom
You Were Never Really Here
― devvvine, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
What's up with this poll? Is it dead?
― Accattony! Accattoni! Accattoné! (j.lu), Sunday, 9 September 2018 00:38 (five years ago) link
I would chuck a ballot in, sure
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 9 September 2018 01:27 (five years ago) link
I don’t really have time for it these days so if someone else wants to run with it go ahead.
― omar little, Sunday, 9 September 2018 19:10 (five years ago) link