"Chinatown" directed by Roman Polanski

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" One of the most potent and influential film styles has been labeled the film noir by certain French critics who noticed a stylistic shift in American films in the 1940s. As Paul Schrader notes with reference to a statement by Raymond Durgnat, film noir is not a genre and is not defined in terms of conventions of setting and conflict. Instead, it is defined by the subtler qualities of tone and mood and is also defined by its time period:

In general, film noir refers to those Hollywood films of the forties and early fifties that portrayed the world of dark, slick city streets, crime and corruption (Schrader 170).
Of course, there is more to the mood of the film noir than the external evidence of wet city streets and crime, and film noir.."

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