Hi do you know about any other scifi film noir films? i found only these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_noir_titles#Sci-fi_noir thanks
I'm not even so certain that everything on that list really qualifies as sci-fi noir. I mean, Alien Nation is more of a mis-matched buddy cop movie; more Lethal Weapon than Maltese Falcon. And does emo despressing sci-fi like Stargate Universe really qualify as noir?
Those seem all to be western-made live-action. I'd guess that anime has many films and series to offer, Ghost in the Shell for example. The two movies are much closer to blade runner estethically than the series, especially the second one which even has 1950ies "retro" cars.
Their definition of scifi noir seems a little broad. Alphaville and Blade Runner, sure, but I'm not sure about some of those others. Invasion of the Body Snatchers is great, but I would have never linked it to film noir.
Kiss Me Deadly for a true Film-Noir with a scifi touch. None of the films on the list are true Noirs, in the strict sense. I'd say Bladerunner and The Terminator come close in spirit but they're in color.
Dark City was great. Blade runner... so-so... nice but nothing more. why there are so few scifi noir films?
From the list, these are the movies that I would actually consider noir BUT I haven't seen them all (some I am including just based on what I know about them) and some I saw so long ago that my memory is blurry: Alphaville (1965) Blade Runner (1982) Johnny Mnemonic (1995) Strange Days (1995) 12 Monkeys (1995) Dark City (1998) eXistenZ (1998) The Thirteenth Floor (1999) The Matrix (1999) Equilibrium (2002) Looper (2012)
Yes, I'm certain Adam West and George Clooney would describe their respective turns as Batman as "noir."
i'm serious it's dark... the dark knight. & about a world gone mad. sex. crime. btw, why the walking dead is considered as noir? it's not that dark regarding the light. there is not much sex there. crime? i don't think there is crime there. it's survival.
I don't know if anyone has read it but Alastair Reynolds' Century Rain would make a very good sci-fi noir film.
A film's being "dark" in subject, on it's own, does not make it noir. Traditionally, there's an amount of melodrama (clear good/bad), a femme fatale (a woman who brings about the doom of the man), a distinct visual style, etc. Or so I was told in a couple of film classes.
There's this weird artsy sort of sci-fi noir called Yesterday Was a Lie. It has to do with looping around on your own timeline (which, I think, is a metaphor for getting over the emotional scars of your own past). It's in black & white and certainly tries to adhere to the usual P.I. tropes. Chase Masterson plays the femme fatale. Peter Mayhew plays the guy that gets killed at the beginning.
I would add a general attitude of cynicalism, certainly on the part of the lead character. I don't know if strictly speaking the film would have to be in black and white, but visually it should be "dark" and muted. Raining the whole time (Blade Runner) helps.
Not sure lots of those would be film noir on that list but some that I think are: A Scanner Darkly, Naked Lunch, 1984, New Rose Hotel