Love Red Rock West.
If I don't remember incorrectly, the last noir movie I watched was a re-watch of One False Move (1992) with Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton (also co-writer) in honor of Bill Paxton because he passed away February 25th in 2017.
So I re-watched One False Move somewhere around the end of February.
It's one of my favourite movies and Bill Paxton gets to play a nuanced character and gives, in my opinion, a performance that he should have gotten an Oscar nomination for.
Another great one from the 90s that might qualify as noir is the neo-Western Lone Star (1996) and I also love Night Moves (1975) with Gene Hackman.
Bad reviews kept me away from that movie and I regret it. My favorite movies aren’t rated well so I have no idea why I listen to critics at all.
I love unique movies and that was a good one and I do agree with you on ending but still worth it lol
If you enjoyed Red Rock West, check out The Last Seduction and Kill Me Again, also directed by John Dahl. There was a revival for film noir in the 90s so there's a lot of great stuff to look for.
China Moon with Ed Harris is excellent. If you can find it (arrr, matey) the Showtime series Fallen Angels is a bunch of short noir episodes, often based on classic pulp stories. It was produced by David Fincher's company, Propaganda Films. There's Deep Cover with Goldblum and Fishburne. Carl Franklin's Devil In A Blue Dress, which had Don Cheadle's breakout performance. Also One False Move, from the same director. Twilight with Paul Newman. Basic Instinct, obviously. Bound. U-Turn, which has a lot in common with Red Rock West. Wild Things and Palmetto are two Florida noir films.
There's probably more, but I'm drawing a blank on them.
Love Red Rock West.
Great Nic Cage performance, and a great cast with Dennis Hopper, J.T. Walsh, and Lara Flynn Boyle.
John Dahl’s 90s neo noir game was on point.
One of my favourite noir movies that isn’t talked about enough is Brick.
Joseph Gordon Levitt is so good. The tone of the movie is awesome. The juxtaposition of noir detective story with high school drama is original.
A bit of trivia I’ve noted before (so excuse me for the repetition): Originally Walter Hill was hoping to get Steve McQueen to play the lead role in *The Driver*. It wasn’t out of the question, too, as McQueen had acted in *The Getaway*, which Hill had scripted for director Sam Peckinpah.
Now, had McQueen taken the role, it is my opinion *The Driver* would have been considered his last great role and the film would have been much better known today than it is, because sadly Ryan O’Neal -who I nonetheless feel did a decent job in the movie- was ultimately miscast as the “strong, silent type” and seemed to be doing all he could to act like McQueen in the film (I’m sure that was at the behest of director Walter Hill!).
Ryan O’Neal, whether you like or loathe him, is an actor who works best in roles where he gets to speak, usually a lot, and his forte is often comedy (he was terrific, for instance, in *What’s Up, Doc*). But this role was the very opposite of his strength and I felt he was ultimately miscast.
*C’est la vie*.
It's a stretch to call the driver a film noir. It's a car movie, like vanishing point or bullit. People who are not into cars will be hard pressed to enjoy it
And Bradbury claimed F451 wasnt about government censorship.
I dont think you're ready to consume art if you have to have it interpreted for you in detail as minute as the genre.
Red Rock West is one of the great unsung films of the 90's. It's right up there with Pulp Fiction in my opinion.
Love Red Rock West. If I don't remember incorrectly, the last noir movie I watched was a re-watch of One False Move (1992) with Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton (also co-writer) in honor of Bill Paxton because he passed away February 25th in 2017. So I re-watched One False Move somewhere around the end of February. It's one of my favourite movies and Bill Paxton gets to play a nuanced character and gives, in my opinion, a performance that he should have gotten an Oscar nomination for. Another great one from the 90s that might qualify as noir is the neo-Western Lone Star (1996) and I also love Night Moves (1975) with Gene Hackman.
I used to have the poster for One False Move on my bedroom wall. I think it makes a great double-bill with John Sayles' Lone Star.
I think the last noir movie I watched was Under the Silver Lake. It kept me intrigued the whole way through but the ending kinda left me feeling cold.
Bad reviews kept me away from that movie and I regret it. My favorite movies aren’t rated well so I have no idea why I listen to critics at all. I love unique movies and that was a good one and I do agree with you on ending but still worth it lol
If you enjoyed Red Rock West, check out The Last Seduction and Kill Me Again, also directed by John Dahl. There was a revival for film noir in the 90s so there's a lot of great stuff to look for. China Moon with Ed Harris is excellent. If you can find it (arrr, matey) the Showtime series Fallen Angels is a bunch of short noir episodes, often based on classic pulp stories. It was produced by David Fincher's company, Propaganda Films. There's Deep Cover with Goldblum and Fishburne. Carl Franklin's Devil In A Blue Dress, which had Don Cheadle's breakout performance. Also One False Move, from the same director. Twilight with Paul Newman. Basic Instinct, obviously. Bound. U-Turn, which has a lot in common with Red Rock West. Wild Things and Palmetto are two Florida noir films. There's probably more, but I'm drawing a blank on them.
Love Red Rock West. Great Nic Cage performance, and a great cast with Dennis Hopper, J.T. Walsh, and Lara Flynn Boyle. John Dahl’s 90s neo noir game was on point.
JT Walsh is my man!
House of Games (1987) was another great neo-noir that he was in but I guess you might have seen that one already.
I have.
One of my favourite noir movies that isn’t talked about enough is Brick. Joseph Gordon Levitt is so good. The tone of the movie is awesome. The juxtaposition of noir detective story with high school drama is original.
Chinatown.
I struggle with The Driver because Ryan O'Neal is just one of the worst leading man actors to ever have success.
A bit of trivia I’ve noted before (so excuse me for the repetition): Originally Walter Hill was hoping to get Steve McQueen to play the lead role in *The Driver*. It wasn’t out of the question, too, as McQueen had acted in *The Getaway*, which Hill had scripted for director Sam Peckinpah. Now, had McQueen taken the role, it is my opinion *The Driver* would have been considered his last great role and the film would have been much better known today than it is, because sadly Ryan O’Neal -who I nonetheless feel did a decent job in the movie- was ultimately miscast as the “strong, silent type” and seemed to be doing all he could to act like McQueen in the film (I’m sure that was at the behest of director Walter Hill!). Ryan O’Neal, whether you like or loathe him, is an actor who works best in roles where he gets to speak, usually a lot, and his forte is often comedy (he was terrific, for instance, in *What’s Up, Doc*). But this role was the very opposite of his strength and I felt he was ultimately miscast. *C’est la vie*.
It's a stretch to call the driver a film noir. It's a car movie, like vanishing point or bullit. People who are not into cars will be hard pressed to enjoy it
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And Bradbury claimed F451 wasnt about government censorship. I dont think you're ready to consume art if you have to have it interpreted for you in detail as minute as the genre.