This slow burn crime thriller favors mood and atmosphere over plot and momentum, creating a sense of desperation over a humid, overheated summer night.
Diao Yinan’s dark crime drama, set in China’s northern coal country in the depths of winter, takes an atmospheric approach to the shadowy murder mystery.
Lynch transformed the pilot of a TV show into a neo-noir with a weird, mystical logic that, in its unique Lynchian way, makes a twisted emotional sense.
Robert Mitchum stars in this smart neo-noir drama set in the Boston underworld, one of the best and least heralded crime movie classic of the seventies.
The film is named for Donald Sutherland’s character but Alan Pakula’s stark, alienated neo-noir, is remembered for Jane Fonda’s Oscar-winning performance.
Director Steven Soderbergh followed his sexy and stylish ‘Out of Sight’ with this cool, hard-edged revenge thriller that straddles the sixties and the nineties.
