| moviePig 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. :] THE LOOKOUT and L.A. CONFIDENTIAL maybe... but surely not NO COUNTRY, KISS KISS, or SHORTY. Afaik, noir takes more than a wry plot with a less-than-ebullient outcome. E.g., you need fatalism... and underexposed film... Well, Roeper and Friend pronounced both No Country and Kiss Kiss to be noir, and Shorty was written by Elmore Leonard. I think that's enough to make them noir. |