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Forum: Movie Reviews 6 hours ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
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The Yakuza was a very last second cut, and while...

The Yakuza was a very last second cut, and while I’ve seen it a couple times, it’s been years. I really should have found room for it.
Forum: Movie Reviews 10 hours ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
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I had Le Samouraï at #15. Stylish and enthralling, it looks great and oozes cool. And the bit of redemption at the end is perfect.

My List:
3. Miller's Crossing (#15)
4. Memories of Murder...
Forum: Movie Reviews 11 hours ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
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I had Out of the Past at #5, one of the noirish of all the noirs, and in all the right places.

My List:
5.Out of the Past (#7)
6. Pickup on South Street (#21)
7. Stray Dog (#32)
8. The...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 day ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
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It was a classic film noir I had to include. The Big Sleep was my #16. I'm rather surprised Altman's version of Chandler's The Long Goodbye will end up placing higher on the neo-noir countadown than...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 day ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By Kaplan
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Back when I thought more highly of Nolan. I had Memento at #17.

My List:
3. Miller's Crossing (#15)
4. Memories of Murder (#25)
5. True Romance (#60)
7. Drive (#14)
8. Blood Simple (#9)
9....
Forum: Movie Reviews 2 days ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By Kaplan
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My bottom three films won't be making it. As my 1-pointer I had The Man from London, Bela Tarr's arthouse adaptation of Georges Simenon's classic book. It's by no means a perfect movie, but what it...
Forum: Movie Reviews 2 days ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By Kaplan
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While I ended up placing Miller's Crossing higher, Blood Simple was the first Coen brothers movie I knew would be on my list, the grittiest, most noir movie of their career. I had it at #8.

My...
Forum: Movie Reviews 2 days ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
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The Sweet Smell of Success starts with a fantastic script with dialogue as good as you'll find in any movie from that decade, and then you get two perfect performances by Tony Curtis and Burt...
Forum: Movie Reviews 4 days ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By Kaplan
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I absolutely love both of those Coen brothers films, but neither made my list. I just do not see No Country as neo-noir. Fargo, sure, but I already had three of their films, so I had to stop at some...
Forum: Movie Reviews 4 days ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
Posted By Kaplan
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Shadow of a Doubt is easily among my three favorite Hitchcock films and I had it at #10, and The Killing is my favorite heist film, which strangely is a sub-genre I often have trouble engaging with....
Forum: Movie Reviews 5 days ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By Kaplan
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Drive is awesome. I haven't seen it in a while at this point, but I watched it a bunch of times when it first came out and I have it at #7. Blue Velvet is great, too, but it missed my list.

My...
Forum: Movie Reviews 5 days ago
Replies: 1,626
The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
Posted By Kaplan
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I'd decided to include Kiss Me Deadly, but forgot when I submitted my list. It didn't exactly need my help anyway. Night of the Hunter is great and all, but it had no chance.
Forum: Movie Reviews 6 days ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By Kaplan
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Jesus, Tom, I had Miller's Crossing all the way up at #3. If you ever read the book The Glass Key, you'll see that, while it is only a loose adaptation, it nails the overall tone of the book and its...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 week ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By Kaplan
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I only had Jackie Brown at #20, but that says nothing about my love for it. While I've long ago burned out on Pulp Fiction, I can still watch Jackie Brown any time and still happily dive into this...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 week ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
Posted By Kaplan
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I watched The Big Heat for the countdown and was impressed enough to put it at #13. Strangers on a Train was Patricia Highsmith's debut novel, and when Hitchcock was interested in securing the rights...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 week ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By Kaplan
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High and Low might be my favorite Kurosawa film, but I don't think of it as noir, no matter how gritty it gets at times, but it never has that noir grittiness to it, I guess. I'm completely...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 week ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
Posted By Kaplan
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I had Ace in the Hole at #17. It is not the only Billy Wilder film on my list, let's just say. I have two Hitchcock films, one yet to be revealed, but I left off Notorious, maybe because I don't...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 week ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By Kaplan
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Nightcrawler was my #9.

My List:
4. Memories of Murder (#25)
5. True Romance (#60)
9. Nightcrawler (#21)
11. The Friends of Eddie Coyle (#100)
12. Branded to Kill (#71)
13. The Man Who...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 week ago
Replies: 1,626
The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
Posted By Kaplan
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Pickup on South Street was my #6. The Killers is excellent, but for whatever reason I didn't think of it.

My List:
6. Pickup on South Street (#21)
7. Stray Dog (#32)
11. Where the Sidewalk...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 week ago
Replies: 1,626
The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
Posted By Kaplan
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I had The Postman Always Rings Twice at #21, but it certainly could have been higher. An excellent noir, where sexuality is a dangerous weapon to be used to manipulate others and always leads to...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 week ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By Kaplan
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Two for me. Sin City is a blast of pure comic book style pulp and I had it at #16. Memories of Murder is definitely the film that made me initially notice Bong Joon Ho, and I put it at #4. As a side...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 week ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By Kaplan
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The Conversation is fantastic, but it never crossed my mind when compiling my list. Had it, I doubt I would have considered it noirish enough. The Man Who Wasn't There, a sort of Camus meets noir...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 week ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By Kaplan
If I may say so, you're responding to a silly...

If I may say so, you're responding to a silly argument. A healthy society will have scandalous art, and it has nothing to do with morals. At least not in the sense of claiming a prudish, more...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 week ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
Posted By Kaplan
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I squeezed Scarlet Street on at #24, and if I'd seen it more recently, maybe it would have been higher.

My List:
7. Stray Dog (#32)
11. Where the Sidewalk Ends (#66)
15. Elevator to the...
Forum: Movie Reviews 2 weeks ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
Posted By Kaplan
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My first top 10 made it, Stray Dog at #7. The movie oozes with heat and desperation. When I saw The Lady from Shanghai show up, my first thought was I didn't care for it, except the ending, and then...

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