Now keep reading for a look at the individual films in Imprint’s new After Dark: Neo Noir Cinema – Collection One!Ī Los Angeles suburb is rocked by the home invasion-style, drug-related murders of multiple people, and it’s not long before the police catch a lead. It’s a broad collection with both obvious and unexpected titles, but they’re all worth a watch and welcome additions in this set. They’re great essays (for reading after you’ve watched the movies) and add to the set’s clear love for the films, the genre, and cinema itself. Each film gets its own snap-case inside, and the set also includes a booklet with new writing on the films by Walter Chaw and Peter Galvin. The After Dark: Neo Noir Cinema box comes in a slick hardbox with a die-cut top. Imprint presents them in chronological order, but I’ll be covering them in order from the best to the least best. The films include After Dark My Sweet, Mortal Thoughts, Rush, One False Move, Flesh and Bone, and Twilight. After Dark: Neo-Noir Cinema collects six films from the nineties - something of a high point for Hollywood neo-noirs - each with new and old special features, and some of them are making their worldwide debut here on Blu-ray.
The fine folks at Australia’s Imprint Films (a ViaVision label) recognize the draw of the neo-noir, and to celebrate that they’ve put together a box-set that’s hopefully the first of a series.
Mood, style, and atmosphere remain, though, leaving this neo-noir sub-genre with just as many classics as noir itself. Later entries retained the criminal acts and glimpses into the dark recesses of human nature while moving beyond the traditional plot and character conventions. The noir genre has a long history going back decades to American cinema of the 1940s, but as the times and standards changed, so did noir.
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