Introduction
Film noir has come a long way since it first emerged in the early 1940s with hard-boiled detective stories such as The Maltese Falcon, morphed into the darker neo-noirs of the '70s such as Chinatown, and seeped its way into a variety of other genres to create Modern Noir. In this series, we showcase three distinctive examples of modern noir, ranging from the grim comedy of the Coen brothers, to the offbeat melancholy of Jim Jarmusch and the noir sci-fi world of Alex Proyas.
Many more prime examples of modern noir abound; Lawrence Kasdan's Body Heat, John Dahl's The Last Seduction, Sam Raimi's A Simple Plan and Robert Rodriguez's Sin City are excellent starting points.
