| On Dec 11, 4:26 pm, Agent Smith wrote: Quote: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. They make neo-noir or they get all retro -- L.A. Confidential is the latter, The Lookout and Brick are the former. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a wildly riffing satire on 80s crime movies. Memento is the one most in the ball park. John Harkness |