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.
The debut feature from filmmaker Jonathan Glazer is a fierce yet refreshingly understated British gangster film with a ferocious performance by Kinglsey.
This slow burn crime thriller favors mood and atmosphere over plot and momentum, creating a sense of desperation over a humid, overheated summer night.
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.
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.
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.
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.
