100 Noir Movies
After I've tried to watch bunch of nowadays movies and I've got sick of it. They are like cartoons now. With that shitty sound, which is not real. People chatting in the night club with sound blasting, or all the sounds during the fight. I've got tired. So I've watched Motherless Brooklyn, and immediately recalled to what extent I like noir films.
So I went to see top 100 best noir movies backwards, starting from 100th.
100
The Desperate Hours (1955 film)
directed by William Wyler
And here are some notes on this movie, what I was thinking during the watch:
First I saw the boyfriend of the girl, the daughter of the main character I wondered about the age of the girl, and her boyfriend. His age, closer to 38. Her age revealed later in the movie being 19
I like that sound is actually makes you feel that you're present in there. You hear all the spatial tones echoes and sound propagation like they are coming from the real room you're inside as well.
What's really weird -- emotional expressions. I wonder if that's exaggeration or folks indeed were so extreme with all that screams, whoopee sounds and alike.
No TV, only radio. Even at home.
And you're a boy, son, kid even if you close to 40.
And surely, everyone is a Mister.
Looks like, one person from this movie is still alive: Richard Eyer, now 81.
99
Crossfire 1947
First I've noticed: the movie produced or distributed by the "radio pictures" company. Interesting shift and reflection of the state of the technology getting into the names of the companies.
Recently I saw a reaction of some american who saw the electric kettle and was surprised because of that piece of kitchen utensil. In this movie there is a kettle on the gas stove. So that would be organic assumption that this equipment converts into electric one.
Almost all the kitchen containers were labeled: coffee, sugar, salt. I remember when I was a child I saw similar ones at kitchen as well. Maybe that was international. Probably that's because they were not made of glass or plastic so no transparency.
What I like about the movies from that period -- people were able to navigate the city only by verbal directions: "cinema about four blocks away from the hotel". And that's enough for understanding. Or, named apartment building: "He is at the Regal Apartments". Lovely.
It's only second movie in a row, and I already wonder if police was indeed more allowing regarding civil people to participate in investigations. Could be that it's only in-movie thing. But but could be that it was real one.
Another phrase I like: it slipped through the machinery. I hear the current version more often, slipped/fell through the cracks, but with machinery I like it better.
98
D.O.A 1949
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