Best Ever Neo-Noir Films/Modern Film Noir [Poll] - Games

PurpleHazel

StreetSpirit wrote:

Blow Out is totally a Neo-Noir in my book. I simply forgot about it when I did my list and badseed reminded me of it.

I rewatched Dressed to Kill last night and it made me think, you know, Blow Out's more noir than I thought (in relation to Dressed to Kill)! Very Happy

bobbyb5 wrote:

Yeah, the thing with the scream is one of the most awesome touches that anyone ever put at the end of a movie. Whoever thought of that was really really smart.

De Palma wrote and directed, so presumably it was him. It's an cynical, coldblooded touch, but the circumstances of that scream are what cinches the movie as noir. Probably De Palma's best film IMO, though it has some rivals.

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PurpleHazel wrote:

I rewatched Dressed to Kill last night and it made me think, you know, Blow Out's more noir than I thought (in relation to Dressed to Kill)! Very Happy

De Palma wrote and directed, so presumably it was him. It's an cynical, coldblooded touch, but the circumstances of that scream are what cinches the movie as noir. Probably De Palma's best film IMO, though it has some rivals.

I couldn't remember if he wrote it or co-wrote it with someone else or what.
Yeah, I think it's probably his best one too, although there's a lot of others I like just as much.

AfterHours

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Final submission:

1. Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese (1976)
2. Chinatown - Roman Polanski (1974)
3. Blow Up - Michelangelo Antonioni (1966)
4. Lost Highway - David Lynch (1997)
5. Inland Empire - David Lynch (2006)
6. Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino (1994)
7. Memento - Christopher Nolan (2001)
8. Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock (1960)
9. Old Boy - Chan-wook Park (2003)
10. Marnie - Alfred Hitchcock (1964)
11. Cache - Michael Haneke (2005)
12. The Trial - Orson Welles (1962)
13. Point Blank - John Boorman (1967)
14. Mulholland Drive - David Lynch (2001)
15. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia - Sam Peckinpah (1974)
16. Blade Runner - Ridley Scott (1982) [The Final Cut, 117 minutes]
17. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover - Peter Greenaway (1989)
18. The Killer - John Woo (1989)
19. Blue Velvet - David Lynch (1986)
20. Face/Off - John Woo (1997)
21. LA Confidential - Curtis Hanson (1998)
22. Europa - Lars Von Trier (1991)
23. The Conversation - Francis Ford Coppola (1974)
24. Dirty Harry - Don Siegel (1971)
25. Reservoir Dogs - Quentin Tarantino (1992)
26. King of New York - Abel Ferrara (1990)
27. Dressed to Kill - Brian De Palma (1980)
28. Shock Corridor - Sam Fuller (1963)
29. Pi - Darren Aronofsky (1998)
30. Hard Boiled - John Woo (1992)
31. Bonnie & Clyde - Arthur Penn (1967)
32. Fargo - Joel Coen (1996)
33. After Hours - Martin Scorsese (1985)
34. Natural Born Killers - Oliver Stone (1994) [Director's Cut, 123 minutes]
35. Body Double - Brian De Palma (1984)
36. Wild at Heart - David Lynch (1990)
37. The Lives of Others - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (2007)
38. Batman Returns - Tim Burton (1992)
39. Badlands - Terrence Malick (1973)
40. Exotica - Atom Egoyan (1994)
41. Damnation - Bela Tarr (1989)
42. World on a Wire - Rainer Fassbinder (1973)
43. The Game - David Fincher (1998)
44. Shallow Grave - Danny Boyle (1994)
45. Something Wild - Jonathan Demme (1986)
46. Soylent Green - Richard Fleischer (1973)
47. Peeping Tom - Michael Powell (1960)
48. Silence of the Lambs - Jonathan Demme (1991)
49. Miller's Crossing - Joel Coen (1990)
50. Blow Out - Brian De Palma (1981)
51. The Conformist - Bernardo Bertolucci (1971)
52. Leon: The Professional - Luc Besson (1994)
53. The Big Lebowski - Joel & Ethan Coen (1998)
54. The Getaway - Sam Peckinpah (1972)
55. Breathless - Jean-Luc Godard (1960)
56. To Die For - Gus Van Sant (1995)
57. Videodrome - David Cronenberg (1983)
58. Barton Fink - Joel & Ethan Coen (1991)
59. Chungking Express - Wong Kar-wai (1994)
60. Drugstore Cowboy - Gus Van Sant (1989)
61. The Beat That My Heart Skipped - Jacques Audiard (2005)
62. The Usual Suspects - Bryan Singer (1995)
63. Fatal Attraction - Adrian Lyne (1987)
64. The Long Goodbye - Robert Altman (1973)
65. Minority Report - Steven Spielberg (2002)
66. Fight Club - David Fincher (1999)
67. The French Connection - William Freidkin (1971)
68. Pierrot le Fou - Jean-Luc Godard (1965)
69. Children of Men - Alfonso Cuaron (2006)
70. Le Samourai - Jean-Pierre Melville (1967)
71. Se7en - David Fincher (1995)
72. Heat - Michael Mann (1995)
73. Blood Simple - Joel & Ethan Coen (1984)
74. The Dark Knight - Christopher Nolan (2008)
75. Body Heat - Lawrence Kasdan (1981)
76. The Following - Christopher Nolan (1998)
77. City of God - Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund (2002)
78. Dog Day Afternoon - Sidney Lumet (1975)
79. Brick - Rian Johnson (2005)
80. Frantic - Roman Polanski (1988)
81. Sonatine - Takeshi Kitano (1993)
82. Dead Again - Kenneth Branagh (1991)
83. Basic Instinct - Paul Verhoeven (1992)
84. The Departed - Martin Scorsese (2006)
85. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? - Robert Zemeckis (1988)
86. Zodiac - David Fincher (2007)
87. Blade Runner 2049 - Denis Villeneuve (2017)
88. No Country for Old Men - Joel & Ethan Coen (2007)
89. Inside Man - Spike Lee (2006)
90. Madigan - Don Siegel (1968)
91. Dark City - Alex Proyas (1998)
92. The Dark Knight Rises - Christopher Nolan (2012)
93. Gone Baby Gone - Ben Affleck (2007)
94. Charley Varrick - Donald Siegel (1973)
95. Lethal Weapon - Richard Donner (1987)
96. Jackie Brown - Quentin Tarantino (1997)
97. Sin City - Frank Miller & Robert Rodriguez (2005)
98. Devil in a Blue Dress - Carl Franklin (1995)
99. Gattaca - Andrew Niccol (1997)
100. Collateral - Michael Mann (2004)
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PurpleHazel

Updated my list on page 2 (I do realize I'm the one doing the tallying Smile

).

New additions:

Le Deuxieme Souffle
Blow Out
Le Trou
The Outfit
The Silent Partner
Phoenix
Looper
Inherent Vice
The Nickel Ride

PurpleHazel

HokeMoseley wrote:

For the most part tried to weight how much I like the film vs. how noir-ish I consider it...

1. Heat (1995)
2. Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
3. Thief (1981)
4. Taxi Driver (1976)
5. Homicide (1991)
6. Serie noire (1979)
7. Blue Velvet (1986)
8. The Big Lebowski (1998)
9. Carlito’s Way (1993)
10. Collateral (2004)
11. Femme Fatale (2002)
12. The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
13. Straight Time (1978)
14. Le deuxième souffle (1966)
15. Night Moves (1975)
16. Blow Out (1981)
17. Classe tous risques (1960)
18. Out of Sight (1998)
19. High and Low (1963)
20. The Driver (1978)

Terrific list! (all of it -- just conserving space)

PurpleHazel

Started tallying, but since I haven't done this before, I'm not sure how long it'll take. Possibly I'll be done late tonight, but it might be closer to late Wednesday.

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Hayden

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Let's see how this goes Mr. Green

Best of luck PurpleHazel.

PurpleHazel

Thanks! And thanks again for all the spreadsheet help!

HokeMoseley

PurpleHazel wrote:

HokeMoseley wrote:

For the most part tried to weight how much I like the film vs. how noir-ish I consider it...

1. Heat (1995)
2. Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
3. Thief (1981)
4. Taxi Driver (1976)
5. Homicide (1991)
6. Serie noire (1979)
7. Blue Velvet (1986)
8. The Big Lebowski (1998)
9. Carlito’s Way (1993)
10. Collateral (2004)
11. Femme Fatale (2002)
12. The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
13. Straight Time (1978)
14. Le deuxième souffle (1966)
15. Night Moves (1975)
16. Blow Out (1981)
17. Classe tous risques (1960)
18. Out of Sight (1998)
19. High and Low (1963)
20. The Driver (1978)

Terrific list! (all of it -- just conserving space)

Thanks! Can't wait to see the results...

RoundTheBend
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PurpleHazel wrote:

Thanks! And thanks again for all the spreadsheet help!

There's a 90% chance I need spreadsheet tips to make this shit easier as well. Currently I just copy and paste then assign point values, then sort by name to find any duplicates (highlight duplicates sometimes doesn't work because votes often don't have the same format).

Also looking forward to final list.