Do you like his face?

It's just Lynch being Lynch. And that's a good thing.

Detour (1945) has one of the more convoluted plots in noir, packing a flashback structure, an extended voiceover, a cross-country trek, a mysterious death, an "accidental" murder, an identity exchange, an unforgettable femme fatale, and one of the most pathetic, masochistic antiheroes ever into its 67-minute running time.

The roots of noir go back to German Expressionism, and there's no movie that's more German, Expressionist, or noir than Fritz Lang's masterful M (1931).

Jacques Tourneur's riveting 1947 film noir, usually ranked as one of the best of the genre

Fritz Lang brings the terrors of noir into the bright kitchens of America. Watch that coffee pot!

A review of Foster Hirsch's book on neo-noir

The only things not taken from Chinatown are a post-plastic-surgery makeup job from The Long Goodbye and that gag from "The Lucy Show" where Lucy meets Orson Welles but doesn't believe it's really him: "Why, these fake whiskers wouldn't fool a child!"