Psycho-noir

Another reworking of the film noir style can be seen in 1980s and 1990s psycho-noir films. The work of David Lynch—particularly Blue Velvet (1986), Lost Highway (1997), Mulholland Drive (2001), and the Twin Peaks cycle, both TV series (1990–91) and movie, Fire Walk with Me (1992)—shows the influence of film noir filtered through a uniquely individualistic vision. Director David Fincher followed the noir science fiction of Alien 3 (1992) and the immensely successful neo-noir Se7en (1995) with a film that earns much greater regard today than it did on original release, the psycho-noir Fight Club (1999). A film noir work which projects its characters psychology on screen is Memento (2000), directed by Christopher Nolan.