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Stuart Cooper recommended The Killers (1964) in Movies (curated)

The Killers (1964)

1964 | Crime, Drama, Mystery

6.0

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". . . because it’s Don Siegel and film noir at its best. And because Lee Marvin is outstanding in it. Marvin became a friend after The Dirty Dozen [in which Cooper was one of the dozen]. Sadly, I failed to make a political thriller that Lee and I wanted to do, which had been coscripted by Christopher Hudson, with whom I co-wrote Overlord."

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Joe Dante recommended The Black Book (1929) in Movies (curated)

The Black Book (1929)

1929 | Action, Drama

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"Originally issued as Reign of Terror, Anthony Mann’s Classics-Illustrated-meets-film-noir treatment of the French revolution is one of the most striking low budget period pieces to come from Hollywood, abetted by graphic b/w imagery from the great d.p. John Alton and striking production design from the always reliable William Cameron Menzies. Plus it’s witty moves like lightning."

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Mogwai recommended Kiss Me Deadly (1955) in Movies (curated)

Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

1955 | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

7.0

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"One of many great films noirs in the collection. There are a few things that make this movie unique, including a MacGuffin that introduces an unexpected element of science fiction into a hard-boiled detective story, and Ralph Meeker's great portrayal of private eye Mike Hammer (best name ever). Even by film noir antihero standards, the guy is a monster."

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Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film

Michael Boyce Gillespie

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In Film Blackness Michael Boyce Gillespie shifts the ways we think about black film, treating it not...

Roman Polanski

David Ehrenstein

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Roman Polanski (born 1933) is a French - Polish film director, producer, writer and actor, who...

Olivier Assayas recommended The Damned (These Are the Damned) (1963) in Movies (curated)

The Damned (These Are the Damned) (1963)

1963 | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

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"Luchino Visconti never made a mediocre film and his masterpieces reach the heights of cinema. The Damned, at once illustrious and a little forgotten, is definitely one of his greatest and most misunderstood. This strange mash-up of Buddenbrooks and Macbeth is a film noir, deranged and of a profound audacity in its treatment of what burned at the heart of Weimar Germany and the era’s capitalist system. Of an incredible originality and daring for the industry of the time, it paved the way for the entirety of Fassbinder's work and without it Pasolini's Salò (which was heavily inspired by this film) would have been impossible."

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Megan Abbott recommended Kiss Me Deadly (1955) in Movies (curated)

Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

1955 | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

7.0

(1 Ratings)

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"The smartest and meanest in the noir cycle, with Ralph Meeker at his sexiest and nastiest as Mike Hammer and a constellation of complicated females, from Maxine Cooper as the hot-to-the-touch Velda to Cloris Leachman and Gaby Rodgers as two dangerously lost women. Praising it for its “thoroughgoing seediness,” Paul Schrader calls it film noir’s masterpiece, and it’s easy to see why."

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