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Noir |
Though a definite oxymoron, color film noir do exist. We've assembled some of the best,
from color noir of the 50s and 60s, historical pictures, and remakes of classics, to films
that have extended the themes and ideas of the classic films into modern times.
The Films |
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| The Actors |
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| Rear Window | Alfred Hitchcock | James Stewart | Grace Kelly | |
| North by Northwest | Alfred Hitchcock | Cary Grant | Eva Marie Saint | |
| Harper | Jack Smight | Paul Newman | Lauren Bacall | |
| Bonnie and Clyde | Arthur Penn | Warren Beatty | Faye Dunaway | |
| In Heat of the Night | Norman Jewison | Sidney Poitier | Rod Steiger | |
| Point Blank | John Boorman | Lee Marvin | Angie Dickinson | |
| Wait Until Dark | Terence Young | Audrey Hepburn | Alan Arkin | |
| The French Connection | William Friedkin | Gene Hackman | Roy Scheider | |
| The Godfather | F.F. Coppola | Marlin Brando | Al Pacino | |
| The Long Goodbye | Robert Altman | Elliott Gould | Nina Van Pallandt | |
| Chinatown | Roman Polanski | Jack Nicholson | Faye Dunaway | |
| Taxi Driver | Martin Scorsese | Robert DeNiro | Cybill Shepherd | |
| Body Heat | Lawrence Kasdan | William Hurt | Kathleen Turner | |
| Postman Rings Twice | Bob Rafelson | Jack Nicholson | Jessica Lange | |
| Blood Simple | Joel Coen | John Getz | Frances McDormand | |
| To Live & Die in L.A. | William Friedkin | William L. Petersen | Willem Dafoe | |
| Blue Velvet | David Lynch | Kyle MacLachlan | Laura Dern | |
| 52 Pick-Up | John Frankenheimer | Roy Scheider | Ann-Margret | |
| The Untouchables | Brian DePalma | Kevin Costner | Sean Connery | |
| Miller's Crossing | Joel Coen | Gabriel Byrne | Marcia Gay Harden | |
| Pulp Fiction | Quentin Tarantino | John Travolta | Uma Thurman | |
| Devil in a Blue Dress | Carl Franklin | Denzel Washington | Lisa Nicole Carson | |
| L.A. Confidential | Curtis Hanson | Kevin Spacey | Kim Bassinger | |
| A Simple Plan | Sam Raimi | Bill Paxton | Billy Bob Thornton | |
| Don't Say A Word | Gary Fleder | Michael Douglas | Brittany Murphy | |
| Road to Perdition | Sam Mendes | Tom Hanks | Tyler Hoechlin | |
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