Watch the drunks and the lovers appear to take turns as the stars of the Sovereign Light Café

[sovay]

theseatheseatheopensea invited me to make one, so here is a list of a hundred films noirs. It is non-completist. It is non-proscriptive. I had intended it to start with proto-noir and end with neo-noir, but it turned out I had far more than a hundred noirs of the classically defined period to winnow down from and any number of solid citizens and weird little ornaments had already been left by the side of the meme. Like all of the other lists, it will be different tomorrow. Anything on this one that I haven't written about, rest assured that I want to. I would, however, need to sleep more than an hour, which is how the last couple of nights have been going.

Comments

[sovay]

Cool list!

Thank you! Its criteria were how much I like the noirs in question and whether there's something in them which I don't usually see.

Quite interesting to see all the movie posters, with aesthetics much more colorful and busy than, say, than the black, white, with a dash of red that Criteron Channel uses.

In fairness, some of their home release covers are terrific.

Of course, their overall style is to prominently feature a frame from the film, so in most cases they'd be at least committed to something greyscale, if not starkly black and white.

Agreed. It can get a little bit Sin City, though.