--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Patrick King
<abrasax93@...> wrote:
>
> --- jacquesdebierue <jacquesdebierue@...>
wrote:
> There are
> > plenty of examples of great over the top noir
and
> > also great examples
> > of very spare noir.
>
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> When I keyed my last comment I was just trying
to
> think of examples of subtle noir. It seems to me
noir
> has to verge on melodrama to BE noir. What examples
of
> subtle noir can you think of?
Coppola's _The Conversation_, Antonioni's _Blow Up_,
Hellman's _The Shooting_, Boorman's _Point Blank_, Saura's
_La Caza_ (his best film, too little known outside of Spain),
Leconte's _The Man on the Train_, Polanski's _Knife in the
Water_, Kubrick's _The Killing_, among many others. Some
noirs are very cold, whereas others are superhot (like the
great _White Heat_, which I mentioned jokingly
earlier).
Best,
mrt
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