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Film Director Year Country Ref(s). 13 West Street: Philip Leacock: 1962 United States [1] The 3rd Voice: Hubert Cornfield: 1960 United States [2] Afraid to Die: Yasuzo Masumura: 1960 Japan [3] All Night Long: Basil Dearden: 1962 United Kingdom [4] Alphaville: Jean-Luc Godard: 1965 France [5] Any Number Can Win: Henri Verneuil: 1963 France [6 ...
Neo-noir is a film genre that adapts the visual style and themes of 1940s and 1950s American film noir for contemporary audiences, often with more graphic depictions of violence and sexuality. [1] During the late 1970s and the early 1980s, the term "neo-noir" surged in popularity, fueled by movies such as Sydney Pollack 's Absence of Malice ...
American neo-noir films. Neo-noir film directors refer to 'classic noir' in the use of tilted camera angles, interplay of light and shadows, unbalanced framing; blurring of the lines between good and bad and right and wrong, and thematic motifs including revenge, paranoia, and alienation.
Night Moves is a 1975 American neo-noir film [3] [4] directed by Arthur Penn, and starring Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark, with supporting performances from Melanie Griffith and James Woods. Its plot follows a Los Angeles private investigator who uncovers a series of sinister events while searching for the missing teenage daughter ...
Red Rock West is a 1993 American post-Western neo-noir [1] thriller film directed by John Dahl and starring Nicolas Cage, Lara Flynn Boyle, J. T. Walsh, and Dennis Hopper.It was written by Dahl and his brother Rick, and shot in Montana, Willcox, Arizona, Sonoita, Arizona and Elgin, Arizona.
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.
The neo-noir subgenre refers to crime dramas and mysteries produced from the mid-1960s to the present that, while they are generally shot in color and do not always emulate the visual style of classic film noir, often borrow the themes, archetypes, and plots made famous by the film noir genre.
Dead Again is a 1991 neo-noir [2] romantic thriller film directed by Kenneth Branagh and written by Scott Frank.It stars Branagh and Emma Thompson, with Andy García, Derek Jacobi, Hanna Schygulla, Wayne Knight and Robin Williams appearing in supporting roles.