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DVDBeavers LOVE Neo-Noir. Gregory and I have compiled a listing of the OUR  FAVORITE Neo-Noirs... available on Blu-ray. First, we independently created a list of 100 each. We found that 70 of those were duplicated on both our separate lists. Now we are choosing more to fill this catalog. There are purchase, review and comparisons links, as well as a Ten Recommended Neo-Noirs presently on DVD list, Neo-Noir TV series, and Recommended Neo-Noir Reading.

 

Our Neo-Noir selection is, obviously, far more mainstream, and broad, than our Essential Noir on Blu-ray choices. In the context of this webpage, 'Neo-noir' (English: New-black; from the Greek neo, 'new', and the French noir, interpreted as 'black') is a cinematic form of modern movies that prominently utilize elements and plot devices found in the cycle of films recognized as film noir. Some of these include career criminals and/or recent ex-convict characters (Reindeer Games, The Crossing Guard), flash-back (remembered) narratives (Memento), seductive femme fatale (Basic Instinct) lovers and mistresses (Fatal Attraction, Body Heat), unrequited love interests defused by money, desire or power (Against All Odds, Bound), there can be guilt (The Conversation, The Machinist, Insomnia), pathos (Gone Baby, Gone), and complete or partial redemption (A History of Violence) - as a foci of the plots. The Neo-noir will have updated themes, content, period and visual elements that were absent in the film noir style of the 1940s and 1950s. These narratives can even include science-fiction (Blade Runner, Dark City), humor (Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid), the occult (Angel Heart), western (Blood Simple, No Country for Old Men), super-hero (the Nolan Batman films) or other genres that often contain sympathetic or amoral protagonists involved in criminal activity (Heat, Thief), or forced, coerced or seduced by circumstance into illegal behavior (Death Wish, The Lookout, Prisoners, Shallow Grave). Their, and our, often ambiguous, moral response (Nightcrawler) becomes the impactful underlying device evoking noirs that were made over a 1/2 century ago.

 

NOTE: These are the OUR FAVORITE Neo-noirs on Blu-ray listed in Alphabetical order! This page will be maintained and updated as necessary.

-Gary Tooze

 

Recent ADDITIONS

 
Red Rock West 13 West Street One False Move After Hours Heat (1986) Serpico Breakdown Running Time The Underneath

Dead Again

 

 The List  (alphabetical order)

 

13  West Street 25th Hour After Hours

Against All Odds

Albino Alligator Alphaville

The American

Angel Heart

Badge 373

 

Basic Instinct

Bellman and True

(1987)

Black Widow

Blade Runner

Blood Simple Blow Out

Blue Velvet

Body Heat

Bound

 

Breakdown Brick Cape Fear (1991) Carlito's Way Charley Varrick

China Moon (1994)

Chinatown

Collateral

 

The Conversation

The Cooler

(2003)

The Crossing Guard

Cruising

Dark Blue

Dark City

Dead Again

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Deadfall

(1968)

 

Death Wish

The Deep End

Devil in a Blue Dress

Dressed to Kill

Drive

The Driver (1978)

The Drowning Pool (1975)

Fargo

Farewell Friend

 

Farewell My Lovely (1975)

Fatal Attraction

Un Flic

Frantic

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

The Game

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

The Ghost Writer

The Gingerbread Man

 

 

Gone Baby Gone

Gone Girl

The Grifters

Gumshoe

(1971)

Hard Eight

Hardcore

Harper (1966)

Heat

Heat (1986)

Hell or High Water

 

 

Hickey & Boggs

A History of Violence

The Hit

House of Games In the Electric Mist In the Heat of the Night

The Indian Runner

Inside Man

 

Insomnia

Jackie Brown

Jagged Edge

Jesse Stone

John Wick The Killing of a Chinese Bookie Klute L. A. Confidential

 

 

The Last Seduction

Light Sleeper

(1992)

The Limey The Long Goodbye The Lookout Looper Lost Highway The Machinist Madigan

 

Malice The Man Who Wasn't There Manhunter Match Point Memento Miami Blues Midnight Lace The Midnight Man Mikey and Nicky

 

Mirage Mulholland Drive Mystic River Night Moves Nightcrawler No Country for Old Men No Way Out One False Move Out of Time

 

Play Misty for Me Point Blank The Postman Always Rings Twice Pretty Poison Prisoners The Professional aka Léon Pulp Fiction Quarry

 

Red Rock West Reindeer Games Reservoir Dogs Ronin Running Time Sea of Love Serpico Seven aka Se7en

 

The Seven-Ups

Sexy Beast Shallow Grave Shutter Island Side Effects The Silent Partner A Simple Plan Sin City

 

 

 

The Spanish Prisoner Straight Time Suture The Talented Mr. Ripley Taxi Driver Thief Thunderbolt and Lightfoot To Live and Die In L.A. True Romance

 

Twelve Monkeys

U-Turn The Underneath The Usual Suspects White of the Eye Winter's Bone Witness Zodiac

 


Recommended Neo Noir on DVD (that would be nice to have on Blu-ray):

All the Jesse Stone films Eye of the Beholder

 


'Neo-Noir' TV Series on Blu-ray (in chronological order):

Coronet Blue The Rockford Files Miami Vice Twin Peaks X-Files

 

Wild Palms The Sopranos The Wire Dexter Breaking Bad


Recommended Reading for Neo-Noir fans (CLICK COVERS or TITLES for more information)

 

 

 

TV Noir

 

 

International Noir

 

East Asian Film Noir: Transnational Encounters and Intercultural Dialogue (Tauris World Cinema Series)
by Chi-Yun Shin and Mark Gallagher
Euro Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to European Crime Fiction, Film and TV (Pocket Essential series)
by Barry Forshaw

European Film Noir
by Andrew Spicer

Hong Kong Neo-Noir (Edinburgh Studies in East Asian Film) 1st Edition
by Esther Yau and Tony Williams

 

International Noir (Traditions in World Cinema EUP) Reprint Edition
by Homer B. Pettey and R. Barton Palmer

Nordic Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction, Film & TV
by Barry Forshaw 

The Worldwide Film Noir Tradition: The Complete Reference to Classic Dark Cinema from America, Britain, France and Other Countries Across the Globe
by Spencer Selby


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