Hear is a good example of Noir being a style rather than a genre. The Pottersville sequence in It's A Wonderful Life. Nobody is calling It's A Wonderful Life a Noir but that whole Pottersville sequence sure is.

You sure did, lol.

Noir is a style not a genre so if a film has a dark story and filmed in a Noir Visually Stylistic manner can be a Noir of any genre. So besides the Crime Noir we have Night of the Hunter as a twisted Fantasy Noir, Repeat Performance, Cat People, and Alias Nick Beal, are all Fantasy Noir. Lost Weeken...

Original coinage of "Film Noir" was by French political rightwing and religious publications. The right wing publications because many – but not all – of the film noirs were from the poetic realist movement that was closely associated with the leftist Popular Front. The religious publicati...

Road To Salina aka La Route de Salina (1970) Written & Directed by Georges Lautner ( The Professional (1981). The film is based on Maurice Cury's novel La Route de Salina. The excellent cinematography was by Maurice Fellous, Music by Christophe ( Kill Bill ), Clinic and Bernard G?rard. The film...

Lina Wertmuller's Pasqualino Settebellezze aka Seven Beauties (1975)

I liked it a lot. The Critics are full of it. Different strokes for different folks. The Noirsville (NSFW) review https://noirsville.blogspot.com/2020/08 ... 2-neo.html

My views are here https://noirsville.blogspot.com/2018/10 ... -scene.htm

He's great as the Crime boss in the Neo Noir Romeo Is Bleeding

I have recently read Raymond Chandler's Short Stories "Killer in the Rain, "and "The Curtain" these two stories were "cannibalized" and used in his novel "The Big Sleep."

Deadline at Dawn (1946) with Susan Hayward and Paul Lukas. This was an excellent film noir where Susan Hayward helps a young sailor try to retrace his steps after he wakes up with a crapton of money in his pocket and then discovers that the woman he was with is now dead. The hitch is that the navy ...

Road To Salina aka La Route de Salina (1970) Neo Noir Film Soleil - Written & Directed by Georges Lautner ( The Professional (1981), La maison assassinée ). https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitk-nnp_Um-JIokSqelPWsi7bCuipPioMVOUf3e4QyvOKP9h7FrdPdraa1TDZqFtJiDrbQtV1oiEZ9Z...

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The Brasher Doubloon (1947) Flawed Classic Noir "The other, other, other Classic Noir Marlowe" Directed by John Brahm who directed two period piece Noir The Locket, and The Lodger before this film. Brahm began directing some TV after 1951 and eventually transitioned over. He directed a do...