on 8/5/2021, 2:10 pm
Theirs was a Facebook poll (yeesh!) with the ballot being only a Top Ten list.
https://artsfuse.org/234175/film-feature-best-of-american-film-noir-1940-1959-an-international-poll/
The results:
Double Indemnity (3)
Out of the Past (1)
Touch of Evil (8)
Kiss Me Deadly (15)
Detour (17)
In a Lonely Place (12)
The Big Heat (20)
The Big Sleep (11)
Gun Crazy (6)
The Killing (10)
The Maltese Falcon (7)
The Asphalt Jungle (4)
Pickup on South Street (35)
The Killers (5)
Scarlet Street (21)
Force of Evil (60)
Sunset Boulevard (25)
Criss Cross (2)
Shadow of a Doubt (59)
Lady From Shanghai (65)
The only exact match: THE KILLERS.
Five of their top ten were also in our top ten.
All of their top ten were in our top twenty.
Six of their #11-20 were outside our top twenty.
The films in the rest of our Top 20 that they missed:
D.O.A. (9)
Nightmare Alley (13)
Night and the City (14)
Raw Deal (16)
The Narrow Margin (18)
The Set-Up (19)
Dan Hodges will experience a sense of deja vu when he reads the comments, which address ArtsFuse editor Bill Marx's lament as to the absence of NOTORIOUS on the list. The responses from several participants indicate that a lot of people still don't consider it to be a "noir." Apparently the same is the case for VERTIGO, though the ArtsFuse folks didn't come across with the sub-Top 20 list for us (party poopers!).
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