Kat Zabecka talks to Dr Pasquale Iannone, Senior Teaching Fellow in Film Studies, about film noir. If you want to know how to recognise one or you are simply looking for watchlist inspiration, this episode, packed with examples, is for you. 

Some of the films we discuss are:

• Army of Shadows (L'armée des ombres, Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969)
• Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
• Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan, 1981)
• Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
• Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
• Le jour se lève (Marcel Carné, 1939)
• Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967)
• Ossessione (Luchino Visconti, 1943)
• Pépé le Moko (Julien Duvivier, 1937)
• Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
• The Conformist (Il conformista, Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970) [There is an interesting video essay on this film by James Mooney here].
• The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Peter Yates, 1973)
• The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino,  1953)
• The Port of Shadows (Le quai des brumes, Marcel Carné, 1938)
• The Wild Goose Lake (Nanfang chezhan de juhui, Yi'nan Diao)

Nicolas Miller's neo-noir photographs of New York are on Instagram.