Also ranks #17 on The Greatest Classic Noir Movies, Ranked 23 Kiss Me Deadly Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart 385 votes Released: 1955 One evening, private detective Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) picks up a strange woman, Christina (Cloris Leachman), who's standing on the highway wea...
This week’s new releases are mixed efforts offering minor pleasures – worth seeing, but perhaps after the week’s catalogue titles, which include a Chaplin classic, an ‘80s masterpiece, a film noir essential, and more. Let’s dive in: Film | By Jason Bailey Rare, Valuable 'Batman' Pr...
Film noir was a genre that, like the Western, used to be the most popular style of film for the early movie studios but fell out of favor by the 60s. Like Westerns, film noir was frequently considered a lower class of cinema in comparison to the sweeping adaptations of epic popular fict...
We offer five greats from the U.S., one per year from 1944–1948, four enrolled in the National Film Registry. And a bonus: two screenings of 1949’s great British noir, The Third Man (moved from its original Saturday night slot to accommodate our revised February 7 opening for in-per...
Film Noir: Directed by Srdja Penezic, Risto Topaloski. With Mark Keller, Bettina Devin, Roger Jackson, Jeff Atik. Private detective Sam Ruben's clever plan falls apart with the onset of amnesia. Everyone is trying to kill him and he doesn't know why. The
Still he managed some vital work, including a peculiar take on the film noir style, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), a low-budget but intelligent and quasi-expressionist take on Les Misérables (1952), and Pork Chop Hill. The Rat Pack comedy heist film Ocean’s 11 (1960), ...
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Critics Consensus: David Lynch's dreamlike and mysterious Mulholland Drive is a twisty neo-noir with an unconventional structure that features a mesmerizing performance from Naomi Watts as a woman on the dark fringes of Hollywood. Synopsis: A dark-haired woman (Laura Elena Harring) is left amnes...
Top 100 Films #62 Scott’s Review #343 Reviewed January 9, 2016 Grade: A Taken from a 1963 Bobby Vinton tune of the same name, Blue Velvet (1986) is an independent thriller noir film directed by the master of the weird and the unusual, David Lynch. ...
1980s, Film Noir, Thriller Hammett (1982) February 28, 2024filmfreedoniaauthor, creative inspiration, Dashiell Hammett, Francis Ford Coppola, Frederic Forrest, Marilu Henner, Metafiction, Peter Boyle, private eye, pulp fiction, underworld, Wim Wenders Leave a comment . Director: Wim WendersScreen...