Film noir is more of a visual style that crosses genres (drama, westerns, crime, horror, etc.) than a separate genre. The creative us of dramatic shadows in Son of Dracula (1943), for example, is a brilliant example of noir art design.
Thank you for watching and commenting! Film Noir is so interesting and I’m always glad to hear when others love it. I’m currently working on a video for Neo-noir from the 60s and 70s. Hope you check that out when it’s live.
If I was more ambitious and talented, I'd write an essay or a book about the connections between Film Noir and Blaxploitation. How they echoed similar cultural changes in the country, were made on the periphery of the industry & on the cheap because the studio system was broke, how they pushed at the edges of cultural tastes, how they were fertile ground for a new generation of filmmakers and actors, and how, though they were often "problematic," they put women, this time Black women, front & center in ways the were not being portrayed in big-budget Hollywood films. I am a sucker for Film Noir. I think my introduction was also The Maltese Falcon, along with Key Largo. My mom & I got a VCR when I was about 10, and those movies were on one of the first cassettes I borrowed from my dad. I didn't see In a Lonely Place until maybe 15 or 20 years ago, but it totally blew me away. I often say Casablanca is my favorite movie with Bogart (also probably my favorite movie, because I'm basic like that), but In a Lonely Place is my favorite "Bogart movie." Two of my favorite absolute shoestring budget movies are Ida Lupino's early skewering of "toxic masculinity," The Hitch-Hiker and Edgar Ulmer's mean little road trip, Detour. I tend not to get too strict on genre/subgenre/style classifications. Few things fit so neatly into a box, especially where art is concerned. Certainly with Noir, where I don't think anyone was consciously trying to keep strictly within genre borders while making, it seems like rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic.
This was pretty good. Perhaps sometime you can do a follow up on Neo Film Noirs. Along with House of Games, I'd recommend The Long Goodbye (1973), Night Moves (1975), Thief (1981), Body Heat (1981) Blood Simple (1984), Black Widow (1987), Red Rock West (1993), Dark City - Scifi meets film noir(1998) and maybe Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) to name a few. There are more famous movies like Chinatown, Taxi Driver, Drive and Mulholland Drive, but I thought I'd mention some more obscure movies that deserve some love. Even if it isn't exactly Neo film noir, The Big Lebowski's plot is directly taken from film noir movies of the 40's. The Cohen Brothers took the hard boiled 1940's detective and made him into a bowling loving, stoner.
well, you have two of my 8 all time favorite noirs. Out of the Past and White Heat. My others are Vertigo, Touch of Evil, Kiss Me Deadly, The Lineup, Shoot the Piano Player and if it is a noir, Night of the Hunter. I do not really care for In a Lonely Place but I know it is Eddie Muller's all time favorite noir. And i have reservations about The Third Man. Will post my review if you like.
I age with you about LONELY PLACE. At best it's a miserable romantic melodrama with a possible murder subplot thrown in. I have watched it 4 times over 25 years, and nothing about it stands out except a very good Bogart performance playing a massively unappealing character.
Leaned something; I thought it was called film noir at the time. Interesting on the economics. Sort of the same thinking behind the creation of the horror franchise. It must have been difficult to get it down to a list of 10.
Film noir is more of a visual style that crosses genres (drama, westerns, crime, horror, etc.) than a separate genre. The creative us of dramatic shadows in Son of Dracula (1943), for example, is a brilliant example of noir art design.
Great video! Noir films are incredibly addictive; you watch one and you just want to keep exploring them.
Thank you for watching and commenting! Film Noir is so interesting and I’m always glad to hear when others love it. I’m currently working on a video for Neo-noir from the 60s and 70s. Hope you check that out when it’s live.
@ I can’t wait!
If I was more ambitious and talented, I'd write an essay or a book about the connections between Film Noir and Blaxploitation. How they echoed similar cultural changes in the country, were made on the periphery of the industry & on the cheap because the studio system was broke, how they pushed at the edges of cultural tastes, how they were fertile ground for a new generation of filmmakers and actors, and how, though they were often "problematic," they put women, this time Black women, front & center in ways the were not being portrayed in big-budget Hollywood films.
I am a sucker for Film Noir. I think my introduction was also The Maltese Falcon, along with Key Largo. My mom & I got a VCR when I was about 10, and those movies were on one of the first cassettes I borrowed from my dad. I didn't see In a Lonely Place until maybe 15 or 20 years ago, but it totally blew me away. I often say Casablanca is my favorite movie with Bogart (also probably my favorite movie, because I'm basic like that), but In a Lonely Place is my favorite "Bogart movie."
Two of my favorite absolute shoestring budget movies are Ida Lupino's early skewering of "toxic masculinity," The Hitch-Hiker and Edgar Ulmer's mean little road trip, Detour.
I tend not to get too strict on genre/subgenre/style classifications. Few things fit so neatly into a box, especially where art is concerned. Certainly with Noir, where I don't think anyone was consciously trying to keep strictly within genre borders while making, it seems like rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic.
This was pretty good. Perhaps sometime you can do a follow up on Neo Film Noirs. Along with House of Games, I'd recommend The Long Goodbye (1973), Night Moves (1975), Thief (1981), Body Heat (1981) Blood Simple (1984), Black Widow (1987), Red Rock West (1993), Dark City - Scifi meets film noir(1998) and maybe Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) to name a few. There are more famous movies like Chinatown, Taxi Driver, Drive and Mulholland Drive, but I thought I'd mention some more obscure movies that deserve some love.
Even if it isn't exactly Neo film noir, The Big Lebowski's plot is directly taken from film noir movies of the 40's. The Cohen Brothers took the hard boiled 1940's detective and made him into a bowling loving, stoner.
Neo noir blows
well, you have two of my 8 all time favorite noirs. Out of the Past and White Heat. My others are Vertigo, Touch of Evil, Kiss Me Deadly, The Lineup, Shoot the Piano Player and if it is a noir, Night of the Hunter.
I do not really care for In a Lonely Place but I know it is Eddie Muller's all time favorite noir. And i have reservations about The Third Man. Will post my review if you like.
I age with you about LONELY PLACE. At best it's a miserable romantic melodrama with a possible murder subplot thrown in. I have watched it 4 times over 25 years, and nothing about it stands out except a very good Bogart performance playing a massively unappealing character.
Leaned something; I thought it was called film noir at the time. Interesting on the economics. Sort of the same thinking behind the creation of the horror franchise. It must have been difficult to get it down to a list of 10.
Not easy. I’ll have to make more.
Mamet's House Of Games is probably an example of a Film Noir. Might look more so, with the colour turned off :-)
Thank you for the recommendation. I’ll have to check that out.
@@TheQuietRiotProductions There's also The Spanish Prisoner and Heist :-)
NOIR has just one syllable ! Not Noo-ar
You’re funny 😆
Shat up