Quincy M.E. the CSI shows and Criminal Minds, Can Film Noir happen in this time. These shows and those like them,depend upon the science of crime,not some police officer or some county MD"s opinion.Who was appointed as coroner.
shareit can work any time because it's only a style.
then again -- as in any filmmaking style -- there has to be a good story told through great characters.
I think it's possible, but significantly trickier to do it these days for a variety of reasons affecting both style and plots. None of the obstacles are insurmountable, but there are enough to put off most film makers.
I remember a reasonable number of Film Noirs that invoked the scientific knowledge and technological innovations of the time. "The Naked city" was almost a procedural and I recall Mike Hammer in "Kiss Me Deadly" owning an answering machine, which until I saw that I didn't even realise existed back in 1955. Also IIRC they had a sound activated recorder in "Sudden Fear". Science in itself isn't a huge obstacle, though I do think mobile phones and the internet will complicate things somewhat (and "out of signal" is always a winner there).
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The age of the classic film noir period is usually stated as beginning with "The Maltese Falcon" filmed in 1941 and ending with the Orson Welles masterpiece "Touch of Evil" in 1958. However, since the noir style is more representative than any other style regarding what life is really all about, as well as what meaning our lives have on this earth, it never goes out of style, the movies just become neo-noirs. Tarantino and the Coen brothers are especially good at making neo-noirs. Wiki has almost a complete listing of neo-noir titles.
shareI don't consider Tarantino movies to be Neo-Noir (except possibly Reservoir Dogs), but Cohen Brothers are definitely the modern masters of the genre.
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