Why I Love Film Noir

20:55 like yacht rock!

I feel that LA Noir, the video game, nailed it well.

Downing a drink in a bar is about more than the whiskey. It's the chit-chat, the buzz of stories from the epic to the mundane, the old, haunting smells, the sweat and perfume, the bartender who's seen it all, but still offers you a grin and knows your usual order, the constant mystery of what might happen next, the tentative comradery of misfits, a temple for agnostics, a place for loners to spy what they're missing, the shadows to soften the pain, a place to meditate while the chants of everything heard outside yourself, in the ever-changing ambiance, becomes your personal mantra of escape. That's what I like about noir. It's not only about where the plot is going, toward the sad finish line of life, but a place to get cozy while the rest of the world rushes by. For a normal movie you're all alone in the theater or on the couch, but in a noir, your on the barstool or in the booth, enjoying the respite before oblivion.

The mash up of Star Wars and Maltese Falcon is priceless

Bro didn’t speak about Batman the animated series

Hopefully i am not the only one but hopefully James gives us. noirvember one day i know it will be a lot of work cause he will do monster madness to. He even said it in this video he always wanted to talk bout film noir movies. Well this is an opportunity to talk bout them give us cinemassacre noirvember. I want to thank James again for showing me film noir movies cause since last November since this video came out i honestly been obsessed with film noir movies. If not in November you can start a new show series of the reviewing film noir movies just review one every now and then. Even if we get a small monster madness to give us a full film noir i am up for it. You don’t even have to write a script just talk bout each film noir movie you like and just say how much that movie means to you. I think it’s a good idea.

This is why my first short films were noir….and silent, because then I could change the words later rather than being stuck with bad footage.

17:06 in the same way that James says that those noir movies iwth a lot of light don't feel like they count because of the lack of style, Casablanca, for as much as it has style, is thematically so far from noir that it doesn't really feel like it counts. He said it himself, noirs never have a happy ending, and although Casablanca's ending isn't "happy" so to speak, it does fill the audience with a goal, a mission, a drive to be better, and to fight for something bigger than yourself against a force of pure evil that wishes to wipe out the light of goodness. It leaves with a fundamental feeling of hope and a belief in the best of humanity. That's the total opposite of noir.

It's the thematic equivalent of the bright well lit rooms.

Great video essay! Love this series.

I always felt Blade Runner was noir-ish. Also, The Batman seemed to follow that style. I personally loved it for that reason.

There's a reason that people have been trying to make "neo-noir" films for like 50 years now.

I understand the obsession. I saw Body Heat when it first came out and it was the combination in watching that film of dread, helplessness and feeling trapped that got me hooked on Film Noir. I spent 30 years after that tracking down every noir ever made (and this was back in the video tape era) to watch and own a copy. I either rented or borrowed versions of these films (some just bad TV copies) from everywhere from NYC to Dallas to LA..I then sold homemade tapes and DVDs to folks and supplied many of the research writers of Film Noir encyclopedias with copies in exchange for their books on the subject.
Nothing beats the feeling of doom you get from watching a noir, be it original or neo.
As for the best noir? OUT OF THE PAST, hands down

Everybody smoked because the producers got paid. Cigarette mfgs paid for the "ash continuity" person.

I was raised by my grandparents, so every weekend, instead of watching cartoons I would listen to the radio shows with them. My favorite one was Little House on the Prairie, and I absolutely LOVED Guy Noir, Private Eye. It was a comedic parody of noir, but it was still a good introduction to the style imo. Now here I am years later working on a Noir detective novel.

A quintessential film noir is Out of the Past, but my favorite is Kiss Me Deadly, with The Big Combo, a close second.

hot diamonds, cold hard cash clean getaways, dirty coppers stand up guys, low down rats two – timing dames, only one way out This is film noir. What's your angle, pal ?

This was a fantastic documentary on the Film Noir genre. My personal favorite Film Noir movie is " Dead Reckoning" 👍🏾❤️

My ideal world would emulate the aesthetics of film noir
Darkness, cold nights, fog, desolation and melancholy jazz
Beautiful 🖤

Rewatching this after finishing Spider-Noir.

Definitely going to check out more films like these.

It's always night in noir 🙂

Why I love Film Noir: I’m a guy with an attention span.