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.
oh, gun crazy is on filmstruck. here we go!
― ian, Monday, 12 March 2018 01:27 (six years ago) link
best movie ever.
― scott seward, Monday, 12 March 2018 01:28 (six years ago) link
i mean i'm not even french and i kinda think it's perfect.
― scott seward, Monday, 12 March 2018 01:29 (six years ago) link
Kiss Kiss Bang BangThe Spanish Prisoner
― valorous wokelord (silby), Monday, 12 March 2018 01:33 (six years ago) link
Perfect Blue
― valorous wokelord (silby), Monday, 12 March 2018 01:34 (six years ago) link
Yojimbo?
― valorous wokelord (silby), Monday, 12 March 2018 01:35 (six years ago) link
What nails me in this neck of the woods is the struggle with a sense of guilt, however inchoate/bone deep, your own and someone else's, probably several somebodies, who are a lotta trouble (not like you got time to crawl off and get your head straight/penance on). Which includes the two I just mentioned, and also Clash By Night---no gangsters etc., but so much torture of self and others---b-but they can't help it! Or can they? Senses of personal motherfucking responsibility (except for cute little old uncle who goes on a demented glee spree of tongue-wagging)xpost Blade Runner goes even deeper: don't tell me what you did, what are you, man? Can you tell me that?
― dow, Monday, 12 March 2018 01:36 (six years ago) link
BrickHard Candy
― valorous wokelord (silby), Monday, 12 March 2018 01:46 (six years ago) link
In No Country For Old Men and Get Carter, it's all somebody else's fault, but visionary vengeance quests take personal responsibility so far that body parts could end up scuttling across the road to the next reckoning, if the movies went on a little longer. Bardem's character has tracked his shit down, killed the guilty etc. parties, why the wife too, she asks him. He promised her husband he would, he explains dutifully, quietly-sadly? Maybe deferentially, for she is part of the price that must be paid. Carter is HS-HAAAA, he'd never say anything like this, but he's payin' it forward too.
― dow, Monday, 12 March 2018 02:12 (six years ago) link
So anyway here's my ballot so far, just in the order they come to mind:Nightmare AlleyBlade RunnerNo Country For Old MenGet CarterChinatownClash By NightThe Postman Always Rings Twice (all three versions prob, although been a while since I've seen the Italian)DetourAct of ViolenceIn A Lonely PlaceVertigoTaxi Driver
― dow, Monday, 12 March 2018 02:21 (six years ago) link
HA-HAAAA, that should be.
― dow, Monday, 12 March 2018 02:23 (six years ago) link
Homicide (the Mamet film from 1991)Red Rock WestThe American FriendBring Me the Head of Alfredo GarciaThe Getaway (1972)
― omar little, Monday, 12 March 2018 02:25 (six years ago) link
Has anybody else seen Hit Man, the Blaxploitation version of Get Carter released the next year w/Bernie Casey & Pam Grier?
https://www.grindhousedatabase.com/images/Hit_man_insert.jpg
― ...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 March 2018 02:26 (six years ago) link
Thieves' Highway
― cwkiii, Monday, 12 March 2018 02:26 (six years ago) link
CasinoAcross 110th StreetStraight TimeThe Seven-UpsPrime CutThe OutfitThe DriverBlue CollarKluteThe Onion FieldThe Laughing PolicemanThe Yakuza
― omar little, Monday, 12 March 2018 02:31 (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