Joel Coen names his favourite film noirs: “I like the sort of skanky kind”
They’ve had a massive influence on his career.
Film noir
“I love an ambiguous ending because it makes you pick a side”: Jeffrey Reiner, Shea Whigham, and Carrie Coon on crime story ‘Lake George’
The filmmaker and his two stars dig deep.
The Nicolas Cage performance inspired by Humphrey Bogart: “A certain style”
Cage took heavy inspiration from Bogey.
The three film noirs that inspired Martin Scorsese movie ‘Shutter Island’
Three landmarks in the genre.
The stone-cold thrills of ‘The Hitch-Hiker’, the first film noir directed by a woman
A masterpiece disguised as a B-movie
The movies that influenced Leonardo DiCaprio on ‘Shutter Island’
Leo went on a Scorsese-curated film noir crash course like no other.
The film noir movies Scarlett Johansson considers personal favourites
“There were so many wonderful movies about that time.”
Samuel L Jackson, ‘Secret Invasion’ and deep-rooted film-noir inspiration
“Mistrust, and paranoia and suspicion.”