| josephmramirez@netzero.com wrote in news:25c1f068-de8c-47b5-b0bd-da9cc5884e35@e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com: 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. :] Disregarding "recent" for the sake of discussion, Box Office Mojo list 56 films since 1980 in its Neo Noir category. The newest are "Sin City" (no. 1 in non-inflation-adjusted box office in the category), "The Black Dahlia," "Hollywoodland," "Brick" (kiddie neo noir?), and "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang." http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=neonoir.htm I wouldn't call Sin City noir, because I feel that its status as a comic book adaptation exclusively dominates all ancillary categories into which it might fall. However the graphic novels definitely are. |