Film Noir, any suggestions.

[Phil]

Yet again school has brought me to another interest point. We're studying Noir films and I was wondering if there are any suggestions of some really good Noir films for me and some of my buddies to watch. I love these movies, so befitting of our lounge.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

I got these out from the library:
Phantom lady
Too late for tears
The glass key
Black angel
Born to kill

 

[The Reno Kid]

Out of the Past
Another vote for Born to Kill

 

[happyfilmluvguy]

Double Indemnity (1944)

The Bogie/Bacall (Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall) films, like Dark Passage or Key Largo, etc


Here's a man you should really look into. John Alton.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Alton
He was the definition of the noir style. He was a cinematographer in Hollywood and created many of the film noir styles with the low lighting and surreal shadows. Just go to his filmography on IMDB.com and you'll find tons of films with his sense of light

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0023003/

 

[Citizen Ed]

Touch of Evil
Mildred Pierce
The Postman Always Rings Twice (John Garfield version please)

 

[VivianRegan]

Scarlet Street with Edward G. Robinson.

Another vote for Double Indemnity.

 

[herringbonekid]

laura
sunset boulevard
this gun for hire
fallen angel
the big sleep
cat people

 

[Lana]

Check out The Third Man with Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten.


Some other suggestions:
The Naked City
The Asphalt Jungle
Gilda
The Lady From Shanghai
He Walked By Night (which I believe was the basis for Dragnet)

 

[Feraud]

All of the above! ^^

Out of the Past
Laura
The Third Man
Double Indemnity
The Maltese Falcon
The Killers
The Killing
Murder My Sweet
Maltese Falcon

 

[Doctor Strange]

There's a nice list here:

http://brightlightsfilm.blogspot.com/2006/09/brief-history-of-noir.html

Note that it includes a wider range than the traditional, classic film noirs, such as films made after the style essentially petered out by 1960 that reflect its influence or explicitly copy it. For the most important classics, start with the 1940s films directed by Wilder, Huston, Lang, Welles...

 

[Quigley Brown]

Renoir's 'Swamp Water' (1941)

Renoir even has 'noir' in his name.....

 

[Jack Scorpion]

You need to hit some key directors. See at least one movie of each of the main biggies and you will not only get a quick, good grasp of the genre, but you'll discover which is your favorite. That's what matters most, because in film noir, it is all about the directors. The following are musts:

Siodmak (Phantom Lady, The Killers, Criss Cross)
Tourneur (Out of the Past, Cat People)
Lang (Scarlet Street, The Blue Gardenia, The Big Heat)
Preminger (Where the Sidewalk Ends, Laura, Anatomy of a Murder)
Wilder (Sunset Blvd, Double Indemnity)
Ray (In a Lonely Place, Johnny Guitar, On Dangerous Ground)
Hitchcock (Vertigo, Shadow of a Doubt, Suspicion)
Welles (Touch of Evil, The Lady from Shanghai)
Dmytryk (Murder My Sweet, Crossfire)
Fuller (Shockproof, The Naked Kiss)

And see Ulmer's Detour for posterity.

Did I miss somebody?

 

[Jack Scorpion]

Touch of Evil
Mildred Pierce
The Postman Always Rings Twice (John Garfield version please)

Not that I disagree with you, but I really liked the Jack Nicholson version (except for the ending).

 

[Jack Scorpion]

Check out The Third Man with Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten.


Some other suggestions:
The Naked City
The Asphalt Jungle
Gilda
The Lady From Shanghai
He Walked By Night (which I believe was the basis for Dragnet)

No Postman recommendation from you, Lana?

He Walked By Night was a weird one -- I remember liking it so-so at the time, but I've never forgotten it and I still think back to it every once in awhile. I think really was the start of some new threads in American movies and television.

 

[Girl Friday]

Definately the Third Man.

 

[The Captain]

Bogart as "Mad Dog Roy Earl" in HIGH SIERRA was always one of my favorites. My compliments on everyone's lists. I now want to see them all again!

 

[Hondo]

Every one has a great film, tough as are to choose when it comes to Film Noir, might we choose the original “Fallen Angel” directed by Otto Preminger, staring Dana Andrews, Alice Faye, we could also include “Laura” :eusa_clap doesn't make them the best but they do stick out in my mind, I always liked Otto Preminger.

 

[The Wolf]

Woman in the Window
Dark Corner
Somewhere in the Night

 

[Benny Holiday]

Bogart as "Mad Dog Roy Earl" in HIGH SIERRA was always one of my favorites. My compliments on everyone's lists. I now want to see them all again!

Great lists everyone. Captain, that's my favourite Bogart film. The scene where Roy tells the young would-be heisters about the stool pigeon, and taps his finger on the tommy gun's case to imitate the sound of the gun firing, is classic.

 

[Matt Crunk]

My all time favorite has to be the often overlooked Dead End.

Some don't even consider it noir, as I guess it actually pre-dates the classic noir period. But to me it has all the earmarks of the genre - and it has Bogey for God's sake. What more could you want?

-MC