Word: noir
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...teenage angst bullshit has a body count!" And so, Veronica Sawyer, god-daughter of teenage troubles, instigated the rebirth of the noir movement. People in Black (PIBs), Veronica and J.D. do battle with the forces of popularity and color coordination amidst the perils of keggers, footballers, and homophobic cow-tippers. And the winner is: black and blue angst and no "dark horse" date to the prom...
Best Screenplay: There's nothing like sitting around with your friends trying to figure out the twists of a great film noir. L.A. Confidential was awfully sunny for the genre, but it had the omnipresent sense of uneasiness necessary to give you the shivers. Plus, it had more surprises than any movie since The Usual Suspects...
SHOULD WINL.A. Confidential. A smart, taut throwback to the best tradition of noir, it far outranks its competitors in subtlety and style...
...plays Harry Ross, an alcoholic former detective in Los Angeles dependent on his employers, retired actors Jack and Catherine Ames (Gene Hackman and Susan Sarandon). Harry becomes involved in a murder investigation after Hackman sends him to deliver a package to a mysterious woman. The essential features of film noir are in place in Twilight, which dutifully follows nearly every single convention of the genre. The inconsistencies in the film could be forgivable if the film had any dramatic urgency. Fortunately, nothing in Twilight fails prominently enough to completely doom the film. --Jeremy J. Ross...
Since the mental calendar of filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen is often turned back to the 1940s, Dude is a shambling version of Philip Marlowe, the incomprehensible plot and the all-too-comprehensible visual references homages to the film-noir tradition--as if we needed more. Happily, however, the Coens have established a tradition of their own: deeply weird characters (let John Goodman's great portrait of one of those paranoid know-it-alls who actually know nothing stand for the mad multitude this movie contains) embedded in profoundly banal settings (much of the film is set in a bowling...