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	Film Noir - Films
		Film noir was also derived from the crime/gangster and detective/mystery sagas from the 1930s (i.e., Little Caesar (1930), Public Enemy (1931) and Scarface (1932)), but very different in tone and characterization.
		The criminal, violent, misogynistic, hard-boiled, or greedy perspectives of anti-heroes in film noir were a metaphoric symptom of society's evils, with a strong undercurrent of moral conflict, purposelessness and sense of injustice.
		Film noir films were marked visually by expressionistic lighting, deep-focus or depth of field camera work, disorienting visual schemes, jarring editing or juxtaposition of elements, ominous shadows, skewed camera angles (usually vertical or diagonal rather than horizontal), circling cigarette smoke, existential sensibilities, and unbalanced or moody compositions.
	www.filmsite.org /filmnoir.html (2169 words)

	NeoNoir
		The sense that 'noir' created in the 70s and 80s was a 'retro' and nostalgic avoidance of contemporary experience has been encouraged by the often-cited essay, 'Postmodernism and Consumer Society', in which Frederic Jameson assigns to film noir a central role in the vocabulary of commercialized postmodernism.
		The contemporary refashioning of noir themes is a manifestation of the flexibility and responsiveness to social change that have characterised noir from its inception and of the continued vitality of the form.
		The transformations of the genre in neo-noir have helped to clarify some of the constant, recognisable elements of 'the noir vision', most importantly the moral ambivalence of the protagonist and his (or in neo-noir often her) ill-fated relationship with a wider society that itself is guilty of corruption and criminality.
	www.crimeculture.com /Contents/NeoNoir.html (1081 words)

	Conversation with Nathaniel Rich, p. 3 of 5
		These are films that are often shot in color but try to stylistically approximate the same kind of effect that was achieved in fl and white but using color, and this takes on many different forms, often using lots of shadow or often using strange colors, things like that.
		Many books on film noir don't actually give any kind of clear definition of the genre but simply list all the films that they consider to be film noir, and that's their definition.
		Noir came along to say, "Maybe everything isn't quite so great as we all think it is, maybe not everyone's doing so well, maybe there's something more sinister going on, at least underneath the surface." Noir is very much about what's underneath the surface, the underground, the underbelly.
	globetrotter.berkeley.edu /people5/Rich/rich-con3.html (1390 words)

	GreenCine \| Film Noir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Those are films that set the era's artistic agenda for cinematic crime - the "B" pictures from the majors, and the stuff from Monogram and PRC and Eagle-Lion studios, mainly copied what the "A" films did successfully.
		Alfred Hitchcock was not a straight-up noir director, but it'd be a shame not to explore the overlap between the genre-slash-style and his work, particularly in the 40s and 50s.
		Ida Lupino's The Hitch-Hiker (1953) has been called the only true noir directed by a woman, but those who make that claim probably also mean to include the provision "during the classic noir period." Regardless, the heroine of American independent cinema proclaimed it her best film and few would argue.
	www.greencine.com /static/primers/noir.jsp (2804 words)

	PANBELLO WebNoir 6 - LIST OF FILMS NOIR
		Film Noir is principally derived from the Hard-boiled style of crime fiction literature of the Great Depression era, (many Films Noir were adaptations of such novels written by Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and James M. Cain).
		Film Noir was defined in retrospect by film critics and movie historians; many of the creators of Film Noir later said they were unaware at the time that they were creating a distinctive film genre.
		Film Noir is also a combination of styles with origins in painting and literature in addition to film.
	www.panbello.com /WebNoir6_List_of_Films_Noir.html (1383 words)

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		A bibliography is in the works too, which includes books with MUCH longer lists of films...
		First draft version of a list of _films noirs_, important or influential according to admittedly subjective criteria.
		Films are listed chronologically, then divided into a primary and secondary categories, with (sometimes) distributor info and price.
	filmtv.eserver.org /film-noir.txt (154 words)

	Film noir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key fl-and-white visual style that has roots in German Expressionist cinematography, while many of the prototypical stories and much of the attitude of classic noir derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the Depression.
		Film noirs embrace a variety of genres, from the gangster film to the police procedural to the so-called social problem picture, and evidence a variety of visual approaches, from meat-and-potatoes Hollywood mainstream to outré.
		The makers of film noir turned all this on its head, creating sophisticated, sometimes bleak dramas tinged with mistrust, cynicism, and a sense of the absurd, in settings that were frequently either real-life urban or budget-saving minimalist, with often strikingly expressionist lighting and unsettling techniques such as wildly skewed camera angles and convoluted flashbacks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Film_noir (8705 words)

	CrAiGeR's TEN BEST FILMS of 2005
		More than any year, I found this list to be the most difficult to trim down to a workable TOP TEN that sat well with me. This year alone I gave over a dozen films 4 stars and even more three and a half and three stars respectively.
		The film demonstrates how deceptively easy it is for a family to implode under the weight of its own cyclical pattern of destructive behavior.
		WALLACE AND GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT
	www.craigerscinemacorner.com /2005bestfilms.htm (4294 words)

	DVDBeaver.com - Article - Ten Overlooked Noirs by Jonathan Rosenbaum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Preminger was one of the great noir specialists when he was working at Fox, and the recently released Laura (1944), Whirlpool (1949), and Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) are three key examples.
		But my favorite Preminger pictures are the 1959 Anatomy of a Murder (not really a noir) and his RKO loan-out Angel Face, sleek and shocking, costarring Jean Simmons in the title role and Robert Mitchum.
		She’s a spoiled and murderous heiress with a father fixation (in some ways this is Preminger’s first draft of his 1958 Bonjour Tristesse) and he’s an ambulance driver who becomes the family chauffeur and her lover.
	dvdbeaver.com /film/articles/noir.htm (1888 words)

	Neologism Mineticnoir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		French for "fl film", and is pronounced accordingly ("film nwahr"): the plural is films noirs.
		Film noir tends to feature characters trapped in situations (often not of their own making) and making choices out of desperation.
		Noir turned all this on its head, creating bleak but intelligent dramas tinged with nihilism and cynicism, in real-life urban settings, and using unsettling techniques such as the confessional voice-over or hero's-eye-view camerawork.
	dks.thing.net /Neologism-Mineticnoir.html (5451 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		In all Mann's films, the risk of fracture between parents and children is a continuing line.
		At the time of the Film Foundation-hosted restoration of Mann's El Cid in 1993, the group's member Martin Scorsese was claiming that Fall was high on his wish list.
		Eastwood's film is a celebrated crowd-pleaser, whereas the Mann film has become a largely unfamiliar one.
	lycoszone.lycos.com /info/anthony-mann--films.html (433 words)

	English, Film and Theatre - Useful Websites \| The Library \| Victoria University of Wellington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		University of Waikato Film Index - an index to film reviews published in journals held by the University of Waikato library (most of which are also held by the VUW library) - from 1992 onwards.
		Film noir - Explores the characteristics of the film noir style and includes information on the first films noirs and examples of various sub-genres of noir.
		Folkstreams - Find rare films by independent filmmakers on diverse topics such as music (blues, roots, klezmer, gospel, playground songs, and more), outsider art, folk crafts (such as quilting and basketmaking), folk dance, religious experience, storytelling, and more.
	www.vuw.ac.nz /library/subjectguides/eft/websites/film.aspx (465 words)

	Watch these movies, then we can talk (kottke.org)
		A list like this, presented as "you need to see all these in order to talk about film properly", is pretty useless without some kind of context for the films.
		I assume the list is referring to the '54 version of A Star is Born, which is definitely worth watching.
		Of the movies you listed that you haven't seen and I have; there are three that stand out as films, not that you have to see, but films that you should see.
	www.kottke.org /06/04/movie-literate (6532 words)

	Date Wed, 10 Feb 1993 095606 CST Sender Discussions on all forms of Cinema +lt;CINEMA-L@AU
		Subject: Film Noir list--long Lines: 557 As promised, I'm posting an on-going list of films noirs.
		--------------------------- First draft version of a list of _films noirs_, important or influential according to admittedly subjective criteria.
		"Often referred to as the first true or total film noir" Item # THE 6225 Order # 6302182948 $19.98 Bluebeard (44) dir Edgar G. Ulmer UAV 4133 630176787X $6.98 [Price above is one of several versions listed in Baker & Taylor, though it's unclear which is the 1944 version.
	www.skepticfiles.org /en001/movfnoir.htm (216 words)

	List of film noir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Especially outside of the 1940s and 1950s, inclusion on the list does not necessarily mean there is even a critical consensus on a given film's noir status.
		The original titles are given for French-, German-, Spanish-, and Italian-language films; for such films that are well known in the United States under a translated or alternative title, that is given as well.
		Films in other languages are listed under their English titles exclusively.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_films_noir (509 words)

	FILM NOIR GUIDE
		During noir’s classic era (1940 to 1959), no director, screenwriter, producer, actor or actress had even heard of film noir.
		Jail Bait, Ed gave us a film that years later would be identified as a film noir by many of his fans, but perhaps not by stodgy college professors or rigid film students.
		B-movie veteran Lyle Talbot and film newcomer, muscleman Steve Reeves portray LAPD detectives Inspector Johns and Lt. Lawrence, who are searching for the small-time hoods who robbed a theater of the day’s receipts, killing a security guard and wounding a female employee.
	members.cox.net /mike_keaney (2021 words)

	Film Forum Screens Film Noir's B-List - Cinematical (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Which, mind you, is in no way a complaint: From a quick glance at the selections, the series promises wheelchair-bound contract killers, amnesia victims on the run from nameless crime syndicates, little girls used as human shields, and skeletons washing up on the beach.
		There's also Robert Siodmak's Phantom Lady, starring Alan Curtis as a man whose only hope of slipping the noose for the murder of his wife is to track down his alibi -- the dizzy dame he was romancing at a local dive at the time of the crime.
		There are some titles I'm not familiar with, while some of the films by Siegel, Karlson, Lewis and Fuller have either been seen on TV or in 16mm versions.
	www.cinematical.com /2006/05/11/film-forum-screens-film-noirs-b-list (554 words)

	Film Talk -> Films to Talk About: 1970 and beyond
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		We discuss new ideas and explore the world of films in a cordial and respectful manner.
	www.film-talk.com /forums/index.php?showforum=29 (339 words)

	Eleven FIlms by Robert Wise
		Wise's film is a visual feast, at once a prime example of noir stylistics – the defining shadows and tortured compositions are all there, yet remarkably fresh – and a sly undercutting of its conventions.
		As with so many Hollywood genres, the GLBT characters which populate film noir are there, just waiting to be outed (and, more importantly, put into a historical and social context as a reflection of their audiences' fears and loathings).
		He didn't have the budget of his later "A list" pictures, but the results are breathtaking, from the brilliantly expressive noir shots both in the crowd and behind the scenes (even the shadows have shadows) to maybe the best boxing footage ever seen.
	jclarkmedia.com /film/wise10films.html (10274 words)

	Max and Mike On the Movies - Max Weiss & Mike Mayo
		First, a few caveats: You’ll notice the majority of these films were made after 1970.
		Of course, there are many foreign films that I treasure (Murmur of the Heart, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, and My Life as a Dog come immediately to mind), but my knowledge of international film is not exhaustive enough to qualify me as an expert.
		Lovely and Amazing - Film about female body image is a slightly less successful sophomore effort from Nicole Holofcener, the woman who brought us Walking and Talking (and my lifelong hero); still 10 times better than most of the “estro-centric” stuff that comes to theaters.
	www.maxandmike.com /maxlist.html (1009 words)

	How Perfectly Goddamn Delightful It All Was: Movies in the 1990s (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		If it seems premature for a best-films-of-the-90s list, don’t worry, it’s not: I phoned Hollywood and they assured me there would be no good films released in 1999.
		I don’t have any great theories about the course of film history over the past 10 years—no theories of any kind—but I am fairly certain it was a better time for movies than the ‘80s, at least in terms of a Top 10.
		Boogie Nights near the top of this list, but where it gets better and deeper on subsequent viewings is how much goodwill is invested in the characters, how they continually surprise you and how attached you become to them.
	www.rockcritics.com /popped/90smovies.html (1574 words)

	Westerns, Noirs, and Sci-Fi, Oh My! \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Also, some of the films listed, including "The Narrow Margin," "Force of Evil," and "Scarlet Street," are hardly "overlooked," but are widely considered masterpieces and templates of the genre.
		The only list of neglected films Zardoz belongs on is a list of films that didn't get MST3K treatment but should have.
		I think Rosenbaum loves AI (he put it on his list of the top 100 films of all time), because he likes the uneasy fusion between Kubrick and Spielberg's respective directorial visions, but that this is also the reason why a lot of people react as violently to the film as they do.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/54626 (2771 words)

	Reel Classics: Recommendations - Action/Adventure Films
		Star-studded with the likes of John Wayne, Richard Burton, Henry Fonda and many more, this documentary-style film about the D-Day landing at Normandy looks at the history-making event from German, American, French and English points of view and really should be seen in wide-screen to get the full impact of the battle footage.
		The special effects are a little dated, and it's not really a film that will "keep you on the edge of your seat," but you'd be surprised what good acting can do.
		Which of Lauren Bacall's five films with Humphrey Bogart was delayed due to the disappointing box-office performance of the first film she made without him?
	www.reelclassics.com /Commentary/Recommend/recommend-action.htm (380 words)

	African Studies: Films & Videos
		Information on films, musical performances, and panel discussions in North America; plus links to news and the AFF Archive of Screenings (since 1993).
		In English or French: "Created in 1969 in Ouagadougou, on the initiative of a few film enthusiasts, it became an institution on January 7th 1972 by decree in Burkina Faso, because of the enthusiasm and the hope it created among the public and filmmakers in Africa.
		Benin, Nigeria, Rwanda, Morocco, Mozambique, and South Africa are the focus of this chronicle of "pro-democracy movements" on the continent.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/video.html (2594 words)

	Robert Siodmak: A Biography, With Critical Analyses of His Films Noirs and a Filmography of All His ...
		Robert Siodmak: A Biography, With Critical Analyses of His Films Noirs and a Filmography of All His Works:0786404892:Alpi, Deborah Lazaroff:eCampus.com
		BIRTH OF A FILM NOIR ARCHETYPE Sturme der Leidenschaft/Tumultes, 1932
		The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry, 1945 (film noir)
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0786404892 (144 words)

	ABC-Directory - IMDb: Bottom 100 films
		): Lists of films which have won "Best Picture" awards at major film festivals and award shows.
		): Greatest 100 films of all time, 25 best film noirs, and top ten films from 2000, 2001 and 2002.
		): All of the lists since 1969, presented in one table.
	www.abc-directory.com /site/37369 (170 words)

	List of films — Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal — film festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		List of films — Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal — film festival
		Pas les flics, pas les noirs, pas les blancs / Ursula Meier /
		The Place [ Mesto ] / Arkadi Kogan /
	www.ridm.qc.ca /ridm5.e/films.html (542 words)

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