Film List for "The Detective Film/Film as Detection"

  • The Maltese Falcon

  • Out of the Past
Comment by Russell:
Jeff hated this one, and I didn't like it either. He swears he's going to kill me for naming Series 2 after it.

  • Touch of Evil

  • Vertigo

  • The Long Goodbye

  • Chinatown

  • Angel Heart

  • Cracker: To Be a Somebody

  • The Bad Lieutenant
Comment by Russell:
Good movie, and a great character study, but really not a detective movie. I mean, it's about a detective, and there's a couple of times where he detects stuff, but genre elements are nearly nonpresent. Really, it's more of a deconstruction of the police procedural.

  • L.A. Confidential

  • Seven

  • Memento