Antonio Campos: It's
a faithful noir film about a contract killer, from a time when not many films were made like that.
Not exact matches
Two examples that come to mind — Stephen Frears's 1990 The Grifters and James Foley's 1990 After Dark, My Sweet — have in common that they're too -
faithful adaptations of the books they're based on, both of them novels by Jim Thompson, one of the great sources for
film noir.
THE MAN WHO WAS N'T THERE A
faithful resurrection of the
film noir genre, The Coen Brothers» The Man Who Wasn't There is a shoo - in for Roger Deakins's fifth Oscar nomination as best cinematographer.
Murder My Sweet (Warner Archive, Blu - ray) is not just the most
faithful screen version of Raymond Chandler's hard - boiled hero Philip Marlowe from the classic era of
film noir, it's also one of the best.