(D.O.A -1950)

 (Sin City - 2005)

I haven't seen the film Sin City in a long time but it immediately came to mind when thinking about film Noir. Based on a series of comics by Frank Miller, its comprised of many of the same characteristics of the genre, including voice over and flashback, high contrast lighting, emphasis on anxiety, death, and psychology, and not to mention is a crime drama wrapped in sexual and emotional chaos. As stated, film noir movies depict "a morally ambigious world, cynical private eyes, gangster and female fatales." Sin City has all of those and more.  What is most unusual about the film is the visual effects. While its mostly shot in black and white, some bright colors are retained during certain scenes to highlight different emotions or expressions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01oMivD4o3E

Blade Runner, though premiered in 1982, is another neo-noir film that depicts a pessimistic world of the future, full of over-consumption, crime, and corruption. I think the fact that a lot of these works (Blade Runner, Sin City) depict futuristic worlds, but borrow the characteristics and styles of an old film genre, shows the extent to which we are constantly trying to reinvent styles yet also, simultaneously, revisit the past. I remember seeing this editorial in Vanity Fair back in 2007 and now can actually give it some context.   Living in remix culture, we are definitely used to seeing hybrid genres (of everything), and these are definite examples of how film noir has spread beyond the 40s and 50s and leaked into our current media landscape.