Film Noir
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ver$hy ver$h
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Westerns, perhaps.
ver$hy ver$h
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You could do Yakuza films.
DLaurent
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I was going to do a thread about what your film milestones in your life were, but decided it's not really worth it to mention how I watched a Lynch film at 18 then got into 'world cinema' in my 20s, where I saw a few Japanese films, but can't remember that many pure Yakuza films, so it's a possibility.
I should rewatch the The Yakuza the Mitchum film.
ver$hy ver$h
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Another Schrader script.
kid charlemagne
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schrader will always have my respect, but he disrespected clint eastwood on a podcast, and has been making weird posts about AI..... just put ur head down and make movies old man
ver$hy ver$h
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Watched a decent British one the other night called The Blue Lamp. It's copaganda as it centers on affable bobbies on the beat in post-war London chasing down a young Dirk Bogarde for shooting one of their own, but worth a look. Brilliant sequence at the end where they get him trapped at a dog track.
DLaurent
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I got this for Christmas, not watched any properly yet as can't get into Brit Noir, with a few exceptions like Hell Drivers, The Upturned Glass, Cash on Demand, and 36 Hours AKA Terror Street but that has Dan Duryea. Highly Dangerous too, but not really a noir. Saw The Blue Lamp years ago before I got into noir. Admittedly never given Brit Noir much of a chance.
It Always Rains On Sunday – Vintage Classics
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This one gets big Iain's thumbs up (I've not seen it)
DLaurent
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That's another one I saw before I got into American film noir, about 15 years ago so don't remember it.It Always Rains On Sunday – Vintage Classics
This one gets big Iain's thumbs up (I've not seen it)
ver$hy ver$h
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This one's streaming on Channel 4 atm. Never seen a noir set in Manchester before.
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Hell Is a City (1960)
Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England's most wanted man. Ruthless villain Starling together with his cronies engineered a robbery that resulted in the violent death of a young girl. Detective Inspector Martineau has been...
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DLaurent
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I could try to think of a list and post it soon but it will be nothing special.
It is kind of true I did most of my watching on YouTube, you just find curiosities that way, as most of them are the same anyway and it became more about the mood of falling asleep watching them.
Some of the ones I've watched get listed as Noir but aren't really, and the actual Noir canon is probably quite small.
Example being I watch Blind Alley a couple of nights ago. It reminded me that a) I'd already seen a remake called The Dark Past and b) it's the kind of cheesy and sometimes overt psychoanalysis I got tired of.
Saying that, even after a few years of watching them obsessively, I don't consider myself to have mastered the genre. There's a few documentaries out there, where they'll pick out scenes from films that have just flew past me.
A shortened list would be stuff like Criss Cross, Out of the Past, The Woman in the Window, I Wake Up Screaming, DOA, Dark Passage, Night Editor, Somewhere in the Night, Kansas City Confidential, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers... I dunno... I'll think of more...
It's probably easier to ask me if I remember a particular film!
I always liked the average kind of half watchable ones like Dial 1119 or Dangerous Crossing, or crusty old ones with scratchy sound and poor picture like Secret Service Investigator that you find on YouTube compared to some classics I can't even recall.
Then there's some I don't like eg Laura or couldn't get into like any directed by Andre De Toth no matter how hard I tried.
It is kind of true I did most of my watching on YouTube, you just find curiosities that way, as most of them are the same anyway and it became more about the mood of falling asleep watching them.
Some of the ones I've watched get listed as Noir but aren't really, and the actual Noir canon is probably quite small.
Example being I watch Blind Alley a couple of nights ago. It reminded me that a) I'd already seen a remake called The Dark Past and b) it's the kind of cheesy and sometimes overt psychoanalysis I got tired of.
Saying that, even after a few years of watching them obsessively, I don't consider myself to have mastered the genre. There's a few documentaries out there, where they'll pick out scenes from films that have just flew past me.
A shortened list would be stuff like Criss Cross, Out of the Past, The Woman in the Window, I Wake Up Screaming, DOA, Dark Passage, Night Editor, Somewhere in the Night, Kansas City Confidential, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers... I dunno... I'll think of more...
It's probably easier to ask me if I remember a particular film!
I always liked the average kind of half watchable ones like Dial 1119 or Dangerous Crossing, or crusty old ones with scratchy sound and poor picture like Secret Service Investigator that you find on YouTube compared to some classics I can't even recall.
Then there's some I don't like eg Laura or couldn't get into like any directed by Andre De Toth no matter how hard I tried.