| On Dec 11, 4:43�pm, Harkness wrote: Quote:On Dec 11, 4:26 pm, Agent Smith wrote: I wonder if film noir may be experiencing a recent resurgence, and the movies that make me think so are No Country for Old Men, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, LA Confidential, Get Shorty, its sequel & it's titular rip-off Get Carter, The Lookout. �What other such films have I forgotten, since, say, LA Confidential won the Oscar? Hell, I think even Memento was film noir. �:] recent? -- at least two of those films are �ten years old. anyway, they don't make film noirs any more because film noir is period. This might be a dumb question but when noirs were being made during the post-war period, was it a recognized genre, or did it only become one in retrospect? When people went to the movies and went to see something like Out of the Past or whatever, did they have the same awareness of what they were going to see and all the same preconceived genre expectations as, oh, teenage slasher fans or gross-out stoner comedy fans would today? |