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[rar]

Oh hello. I usually don't complain about shit on here, but maybe that's because there's usually not much to complain about. Lately there's been a lot of work-related dumb shit, so let me fill you in:

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[goodebar]

Yeah, noir's great. You've still got a lot of stuff to look forward to. Here's a suggested list...not all of them are hardboiled detective stories, but the style and moods are generally considered to be noir:

- M (Fritz Lang)
- Out Of The Past (Jacques Tourneur)
- The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
- Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
- Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan)
- Rififi (Jules Dassin)
- Detour (Edward G. Ulmer)
- Point Blank (John Boorman)
- The Last Seduction (John Dahl)
- The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
- Touch Of Evil (Orson Welles)
- Blood Simple (Coen Bros.)
- House of Games (David Mamet)
- L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
- The Third Man (Carol Reed)
- Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville)
- Croupier (Mike Hodges)

If you have any questions, recomendations or other movies, just let me know.

[rar]

thanks! i was waiting to talk to you about noir.

did you see Brick??

[goodebar]

I did see Brick at the Fleur last year, and liked it quite a bit. Joseph Gordon Levitt's been in some good movies....that one, The Lookout and Mysterious Skin especially come to mind.

I'm up for talking about noir or any other movie stuff! I should see the new Ang Lee movie, even though everyone says it's really boring. I thought the new Wes Anderson was just ok.

[makeyou_lush]

so i just finished seeing mysterious skin. i was not expecting it to be as good as it was. and i didn't even realize levitt was in it til i started watching.

then i wiki'd "film noir" and started seeing names of films i knew or films you mentioned. i think i seriously need to get up on this. i didn't even think the stuff i watched was really noir at all, but then i saw that there were many different subgenres?
renting seems to be out of the question in my area. woe is me.

[bignastyted]

honestly, i'm happier when i'm busy at work. otherwise i'm just sitting and reading books, playing pokemon in the bathroom or sleeping somewhere for like 6 hours a day....wait, i guess i'm not happier when i'm busy.

recommendations? have you seen hayate no gotoku??? oh wait...noir, right?

[bignastyted]

you meant this right?
http://www.jvcmusic.co.jp/m-serve/tv/noir/

[makeyou_lush]

I've no idea who goodebar is, but i thank him for the list.
Stop smoking, if that's even possible to do while living in Japan.

[bignastyted]

he's a bad, bad man

[makeyou_lush]

he's even seen mysterious skin! i'm about to watch that right effin now by coincidence!

surfed on any desks lately?

[liukeshi]

"the big sleep" is the nines... raymond chandler has a great collection of short stories called "the simple art of murder"...its a good train read.