Hey, it's #Noirvember and that provides me the opportunity to pester everyone with the movies I so often pester people about! Let's go!

I've been talking about it and just saw it for #noirvember so how about Soi Cheang's Accident (2009) starring Louis Koo as a hitman who arranges murders that look likes accidents. He becomes understandably paranoid.

Karyn Kusama's Destroyer (2018) is a solid neo-noir starring Nicole Kidman as an effed up police detective who has fucked up her life. It's harrowing, so well-done and Kidman is fantastic.

Stefan Ruzowitzky's Die Hölle / Cold Hell (2017). A Turkish-Austrian cab driver sees a murdered neighbor, then realizes the killer has seen her. The police aren't helpful and she doesn't really expect their help, so she does what she has to. The romance is...ill-conceived.

Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here (2018). Joaquin Phoenix is a disaffected veteran who makes a living as a hitman caring for his mother. He's sent to rescue a politician's daughter. Sad and brutal, Phoenix should have gotten an Oscar for this one.

Diao Yinan's Black Coal Thin Ice (2014) is a stylish working class neo-noir set in 1999 & 2004. Parts of a body have been spread all over Heilongjiang Province in rail shipments. Liao Fan a former cop /current security guard. Gwei Lun-Mei is amazing possible femme fatale.

Yinan followed up BCTI with another swank neo-noir, The Wild Goose Lake (2019), also starring Liao Fan and Gwei Lun-Mei. It's everything you could want in a contemporary neo-noir. Plus, one scene is shot lit with those light-up shoes.

Adam Wingard's A Horrible Way To Die (2010) is classifed on sites as a horror movie, but it's somewhere between horror & crime. Amy Seimetz plays a woman who discovered her devoted boyfriend (AJ Bowen) was a serial killer and tries to put her life back together. Till he escapes.

Bong Joon-ho's Memories of Murder (2003) stars Super Actor and One of the Greatest Living Actors of Our Time Song Kang-ho as a detective way out of his depth investigating serial killings between 1986 and 1991.

And I'ma take a break for now. Maybe I will pester you more later or tomorrow. Maybe I won't. You'll never be sure! It's a slow burn!

So @DriveInMob has demanded some b&w noir films in this list and I will oblige him. Mystery Street (1950)! The world deserved more Pete Morales procedurals! Maybe with a cameo by Frances Lee Glessner. And regularly featuring Elsa Lanchester and her array of beaus.

Masahiro Shinoda's Pale Flower (1964) has some extremely self-destructive people who gamble irresponsibly and some exquisite cinematography.

Akira Kurosawa has a bunch, but lately I'm all about his slanted Hamlet, The Bad Sleep Well (1963).

Similarly, there are so many swank Val Lewton productions, but The Seventh Victim (1943) has passive Satanism, sinister fashion, Dr. Louis Judd, Elizabeth Russell on her way to the party in Cat People (1942) and Perfect Bangs.

There are some movies the Code made seem more vile than they would have been without it. Black Cat (1934), say, or Edgar Ulmer's Detour. The ending makes rage-filled sap Al's narration seem even more self-serving than it would have been without it. Ann Savage's Vera is perfect.

Lizbeth Scott is perfect as the murderous sociopath in Byron Haskin's Too Late For Tears (1949). She cycle through affects she doesn't feel to get what she wants--a briefcase full of money. She is indeed a cookie full of poison. I look forward to a nice restoration.