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Bound (1996): Dir. Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Feat. Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon; Modern film noir madeover in lesbian chic – Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon pout, titillate and conspire their way through the moral marshlands…
Devil in a Blue Dress (1996): Dir. Carl Franklin
Feat. Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore; The director's follow–up to ONE FALSE MOVE is a black man's noir, some fifty years overdue! We're in 40s LA, where reluctant gumshoe Denzel…
Hard Eight (Sydney) (1996): Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Feat. Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow…; Cucumber–cool first feature set in the thick of Reno's casino culture, boasts four superb character–based performances and extended…
Wild Side (1995): Dir. Donald Cammell
Feat. Anne Heche, Christopher Walken, Joan Chen…; Bank exec Anne Heche moonlights as a hooker to service a debt and initiates a twisted game of role–playing with miscreants Christopher Walken…
China Moon (1994): Dir. John Bailey
Feat. Ed Harris, Madeleine Stowe; Contemporary film noir, replete with lust–struck fall–guy (Ed Harris), shadowy femme fatale (Madeleine Stowe), a murdered husband, and…
Equinox (1993): Dir. Alan Rudolph
Feat. Matthew Modine, Lara Flynn Boyle, Marisa Tomei…; Matthew Modine plays good and evil identical twins whose parallel lives intersect. The eclectic mix of styles may strike one's fancy in the right…
Last Seduction, The (1993): Dir. John Dahl
Feat. Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, J.T. Walsh…; Magnificent modern noir in which Linda Fiorentino offers the most brazen female performance in years, power–driving her way through a script…
Red Rock West (1993): Dir. John Dahl
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Dennis Hopper, Lara Flynn Boyle; Throw a hapless hero, a femme fatale and a greedy bastard into a desert town seething with infidelity, guns, stolen loot, and set it to a bluesy…
Light Sleeper (1992): Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Susan Sarandon, Dana Delany…; Writer of TAXI DRIVER delivers a complex, understated character study of an ex–junkie drug–courier (Willem Dafoe) unable to escape the…
Public Eye, The (1992): Dir. Howard Franklin
Feat. Joe Pesci, Barbara Hershey, Richard Riehle; Fascinating 40s film noir homage with Joe Pesci in a taylor–made role as a tabloid photographer whose seedy contacts enable him to be first on…

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