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Neo-Noir

12 Neo-Noir Authors Too Good Not to Be Crazy Famous

By Greg Levin

September 9, 2020

Some of the best fiction I’ve ever read—and I’m not just talking crime fiction—are noir and neo-noir stories that, for whatever reason, not enough people know about. And no, I’m not one of those people who, in an attempt to be cool, intentionally seeks out relatively obscure yet brilliant authors and books just so I…

Point Blank (1967): The Only Neo-Noir that Matters

By Peter Foy

December 8, 2016

I’ve been a consumer of countless crime fiction novels, films, and television for most of my life now—from eras ranging from Raymond Chandler to Elmore Leonard to Dennis Lehane—yet still I find myself pausing to ask this bleeding question: what the hell does neo-noir ever mean? Most commonly, people refer to neo-noir as anything that…

Page-to-Screen: Wim Wenders’s The American Friend and Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley Novels

By Brian Greene

January 15, 2016

When writing about a film adaptation of a work of fiction, it can get a little tricky when the movie in question is actually based on two different novels. But in the case of the 1977 neo-noir title, The American Friend by Wim Wenders, it’s really not all that complicated. The movie’s characters and plot…

Reviewing the Queue: Following (1998)

By Adam Wagner

December 7, 2015

With the digital libraries of online streaming services expanding more and more, choosing which movie to watch has become difficult. I will be digging through these online queues in hope of bringing you a movie worth watching. This time we're taking a look at one of my favorite director's debut project. Christopher Nolan has become…

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