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13. dubna 2010

Top 10 podle autorů Rough Guide to Film Noir

Následující žebříček deseti nejlepších noirů sestavili Alexander Ballinger a Danny Graydon pro knížečku The Rough Guide to Film Noir.

1. Chinatown (1974)
It might be a Technicolor neo-noir and have arrived a few decades later, but Robert Towne's magnificent screenplay and Roman Polanski's tight direction propel noir to the top of its game.

2. Criss Cross (1948)
Siodmak's finest film stars Burt Lancaster as a weak-willed protagonist in thrall to his past, Yvonne De Carlo as a money-grubbing femme fatale and Dan Dureya as the reptilian hoodlum caught in between them.

3. Double Indemnity (1944)
Thanks to the combined talents of Raymond Chandler and Billy Wilder, James M. Cain's tale of a dilligent insurance salesman derailed by Barbara Stanwyck's seductive femme fatale reaches the level of classical tragedy.

4. Touch of Evil (1958)
Orson Welles both stars in and directs the tragic tale of lawless policeman Hank Quinlan as he manipulates Charlton Heston's Hispanic official in a shady border town. A tour de force that belies its B-movie status.

5. Out of the Past (1947)
Robert Mitchum's world-weary gumshoe Jeff Bailey lacks the cultural resonance of a Sam Spade or a Philip Marlowe, but he gives both a run for their money when he's rehired to track down dog-eyed Jane Greer.

6. L.A. Confidential (1997)
Three mismatched LAPD officers join forces to investigate a spate of gruesome massacres. Based on James Ellroy's seemingly unadaptable novel, Curtis Hanson's masterpiece is the standout neo-noir of the 1990s.

7. The Big Combo (1955)
A police lieutenant's obsessive pursuit of a charismatic crime lord clouds his judgement in this darkest of noirs, courtesy of cinematographer John Alton and the king of the Bs, Joseph H. Lewis.

8. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Marvel at how Robert Aldrich turns Mickey Spillane's fascistic pulp into Cold War allegory, or simply revel as private eye Mike Hammer slugs his way round a gleaming Los Angeles in a naive search for the "great whatsit".


9. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
In Huston's dazzling adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's novel, Bogart's unrivalled Sam Spade is up against noir's first femme fatale and a gallery of grotesques - all desperately questing for a priceless antique statuette.

10. The Big Sleep (1946)
Howard Hawks's dazzling riff on Chandler's novel is anything but soporific as Bogie and Bacall blister the screen in a convoluted plot that even its sozzled originator couldn't fathom.

BALLINGER, Alexander, GRAYDON, Danny. The Rough Guide to Film Noir. London: Rough Guides Ltd., 2007. s. 56.

12 komentářů:

  1. Big Combo potesilo, Welles taky samozrejme. jinak celkove velmi neprekvapive. :)

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  2. me tedy prekvapuje i to chinatown, ktere mi zas tak super neprijde... vubec ze vsech zminenych filmu mam blizsi vztah jen ke Kiss Me Deadly, Pojistce a Criss crossu

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  3. Od Siodmaka bych treba spis ocekaval Killers, takze Criss Cross potesilo. Naopak bez Sokola bych se obesel.

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  4. ja si treba stale myslim, ze ma nelaska k Sokolovi plyne z toho, ze to byl prvni noir co jsem videla... ale nevim. A ten Touch of Evil je tu take navic, kdyz uz welles, tak... eh... no... Journey Into Fear.

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  5. L.A. Confidential? to je taky noir? :-)
    vitekpe

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  6. tak neo-noir to urcite je.

    Rogue: az ty s Bebcou jednou docenis Wellese... skoda slov radsi :)

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  7. Ano, neonoiry take klidne do noiru pocitam, dokonce jsem chvili premyslela, ze do sve topky dam Body Heat... nakonec nebylo misto... vubec mam s utvorenim jakekoliv topky cim dal tim vetsi problemy.

    eda: az ja jednou... co?... ale prosimte, to je jak "az ty jednou dostanes rozum" - to se tak rika, ale stejne vsichni vedi, ze sance je ciste hypoteticka :o)

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  8. no, ja se o top10 noiru uz ani nepokousim.
    vzdycky mi prijde toho jedenacteho lito...(a tech dalsich mnoha tez...) :-)

    (a to me ani nenapadlo zarazovat tam neo-noiry, ...ale kdyz uz by to muselo byt, vsadil bych asi na muj oblibeny Brick - nebo vytvorit top10 neo-noiru? haha..)
    :-)

    hezky den
    v.

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  9. hm, top10 neonoiru zni zvladnutelne, vic jak 15 jsem jich nevidela... jo, to by mohlo jit :o)

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  10. no nevim cim to je, snad vekem, ale zebricky uz me tolik neberou. :)

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  11. hlavneze jsi tu s nimi sebezroutsky zacal, edo :o)

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  12. jo, to je uz davno. od te doby jsem se posunul. jsem uz jinde. :)))

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