Subgenre Sampler
Film Noir: 238 Films to Buy & Rent
- Metropolis (2000)
- Dir. Rinataro
- Visually splendid ‘future–noir’ set in a teeming, multi–leveled city, inhabited by several storylines: a detective quest, the…
- Trixie (2000)
- Dir. Alan Rudolph
Feat. Emily Watson, Nick Nolte, Dermot Mulroney…
- Uneven attempt at a film–noir spoof by cult dir. Rudolph (who did it better in LOVE AT LARGE) with Emily Watson as a low–wattage…
- A Slight Case of Murder (1999)
- Dir. Steven Schachter
Feat. William H. Macy
- A light case of noir pastiche, but an engaging one, especially for the film savvy. With confessional asides to the camera, a sly–winking…
- Limey, The (1999)
- Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. Terence Stamp, Lesley Ann Warren, Luis Guzman…
- A muscular revenge picture steered by a gifted director not afraid to experiment, Terrence Stamp plays an aging Cockney career criminal who, fresh…
- Where's Marlowe? (1999)
- Dir. Daniel Pyne
Feat. Miguel Ferrar
- A sly if uneven low–budget comedy that blends (and parodies) two genres – the film noir detective film and the mockumentary. Shooting a…
- Dark City (1998)
- Dir. Alex Proyas
Feat. Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Jennifer Connelly…
- Advancing on earlier efforts like THE CROW, director Alex Proyas, fabricates a shadowy urban jungle, replete with echoes of earlier sci–fi…
- Interview, The (1998)
- Dir. Craig Monahan
Feat. Hugo Weaving
- Sleek, edgy Aussie drama works a detailed script and a sharp cast to pile layers of ambiguity and guilt into a standard interrogation premise. Winner…
- L.A. Confidential (1997)
- Dir. Curtis Hanson
Feat. Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey…
- Slam–bang adaptation preserves the lacerating edge of James Ellroy's crime novel while polishing up the sheen of 50s Hollywood. Antipodean boys…
- Lost Highway (1997)
- Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty…
- Welcome to Lynchland. Where picket fences surround troubled, violent, sexual twisted souls who converse in awkwardly measured rhythms.
David Lynch…
- Twilight (1997)
- Dir. Robert Benton
Feat. Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman…
- Star wattage brightens this old–fashioned, autumnal mystery–drama, reuniting NOBODY'S FOOL director Benton with Paul Newman as a…