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Film noir is of course the dark, mysterious genre made popular in the 1940s and '50s and full of long shadows, shady characters, gloomy streets, inky nights and dimly lit rooms.
Film noir is not a clearly defined genre (see here for details on the characteristics). Therefore, the composition of this list may be controversial. To minimize dispute the films included here should preferably feature a footnote linking to a reliable, published source which states that the mentioned film is considered to be a film noir by an expert in this field, e.g.
Hoodlum Empire (1952) – film noir crime film inspired by the Kefauver Committee hearings dealing with organized crime [80] I Dream of Jeanie (1952) – historical musical film based on the songs and life of Stephen Foster who wrote the 1854 song "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" [81]
Among the first major neo-noir films—the term often applied to films that consciously refer back to the classic noir tradition—was the French Tirez sur le pianiste (1960), directed by François Truffaut from a novel by one of the gloomiest of American noir fiction writers, David Goodis. [96]
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Most of the time, the ambiguity works; Lady in the Lake thrives in liminal spaces.But as the season goes on, the eerie stuff threatens to crowd out the grounded mystery. Har’el starts to make ...
Since the premiere of NBC Saturday Night at the Movies in September 1961, post-1948 major studio feature films gained a dominant foothold in primetime American TV and, by the mid-1960s, feature films were being broadcast by all three networks in prime time on a nearly-daily basis. Although many of those films were in black-and-white, the ones ...
[60] Eyes of Laura Mars: Irvin Kershner: 1978 United States [60] Farewell, My Lovely: Dick Richards: 1975 United States [8] Fat City: John Huston: 1972 United States [60] Fingers: James Toback: 1978 United States [60] The First Great Train Robbery: Michael Crichton: 1978 United Kingdom [8] F.I.S.T: Norman Jewison 1978 United States [8] Foxy ...