lydecker Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 How many can you name? I'll start with (of course): Laura Lydecker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Kimble Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 As we discussed a few weeks ago, The Locket has flashbacks within flashbacks within flashbacks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lydecker Posted July 5, 2015 Author Share Posted July 5, 2015 As we discussed a few weeks ago, The Locket has flashbacks within flashbacks within flashbacks One of my all time favorites. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyM108 Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Where to begin? But if you also include movies where a midpoint or the ending of the movie serves as the first scene, you've got High Wall The Killers Out of the Past Detour The Killing I Wake Up Screaming Vicki Dead Reckoning Mildred Pierce Possessed Blue Gardenia Casablanca (if you can call that a noir) Nightfall D.O.A. Etc., etc. It's almost harder to name noirs without flashbacks than it is to name noirs that have them. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
film lover 293 Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Three more: "The Lady in the Lake"--(1947) "They Won't Believe Me"--(1947) "Act of Violence"--(1948) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tolly devlin Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Richard Kimble thanks for mentioning The Locket. I do not have cable so I haven't been able to watch the Summer of Darkness film series but looking over the schedule I was surprised to see that The Locket was not on the list of films being shown. Here are a few more with flashbacks: The Mask of Dimitrios The Chase Criss Cross The Black Angel The Woman in the Window Pursued (western noir) Christmas Holiday Brute Force The Big Clock Point Blank The Night Has A Thousand Eyes Mr. Arkadin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EugeniaH Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Double Indemnity (Walter Neff recounting his story as he records it on the dictaphone) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Double Indemnity (1944) Walter Neff: Yes, I killed him. I killed him for money - and a woman - and I didn't get the money and I didn't get the woman. Pretty, isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 "Airplane!" (1980) took a comical view to flashbacks in which Ted Striker's recollections of his past drove the ones he told it, to suicide. "Interstellar" (2014) took a unique take on flashbacks. After falling into a Black Hole astronaut Joseph Cooper entered the Tesseract - 5th dimension where he literally see flashbacks to every event in his life as easy as going from one room into another. It made the somewhat boring film worth while. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak_zxWyCclI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Murder My Sweet Sorry Wrong Number Sunset Blvd The Damned Don't Cry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 If the whole movie is a flashback after the opening intro, should that be considered a flashback? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
film lover 293 Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 DownGoesFrazier--If the movie has firmly established itself in one setting (say, a courtroom) & then 5 minutes later goes back in time to tell the story of the movie, yes (IMHO). A Long flashback, but a flashback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lydecker Posted July 6, 2015 Author Share Posted July 6, 2015 DownGoesFrazier--If the movie has firmly established itself in one setting (say, a courtroom) & then 5 minutes later goes back in time to tell the story of the movie, yes (IMHO). A Long flashback, but a flashback. I'd agree. Seems as though a flashback should occur only after a decent amount of time in the present happens but, the minute you see that dreamy dissolve coming on, no matter how early or late you are into a noir, you know you are about to flashback. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 DownGoesFrazier--If the movie has firmly established itself in one setting (say, a courtroom) & then 5 minutes later goes back in time to tell the story of the movie, yes (IMHO). A Long flashback, but a flashback. Dead Reckoning has one very long flashback. It starts with about 5 minutes in the church, has the long flashback and goes back to the church for the ending which last about 25 minutes or so. As you said, a long flashback, but a flashback. I'm only guessing the time but I would say about 50% of the movie is this flashback. Narration is used during the flashback (e.g. Bogie talks to the padre as a way of speaking to us). This does assist the viewer that we are still in this long flashback. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 I don't think it has a flashback, but DEAD RECKONING, which is infrequently seen on TCM, is on "Movies" tonight at 8 EDT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 I don't think it has a flashback, but DEAD RECKONING, which is infrequently seen on TCM, is on "Movies" tonight at 8 EDT. Well what would you define what was done in Dead Reckoning? The film starts in the present time, has the main character talking to someone and telling them how he got into his current state. Then we go back in time 4 or 5 days. Does a flashback have go back more than 4 or 5 days for you to call it a flashback?????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Well what would you define what was done in Dead Reckoning? The film starts in the present time, has the main character talking to someone and telling them how he got into his current state. Then we go back in time 4 or 5 days. Does a flashback have go back more than 4 or 5 days for you to call it a flashback?????? I stand corrected. Most of the film could be considered a flashback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dabb Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 Very early in Red Light (1949), Raymond Burr's character flashes back to the moment he was busted for embezzlement at his workplace. This is his motivation for having John Torno's brother, Jess Torno, killed - to get back at John Torno, whom he believed turned him in for his crime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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