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You filmed it almost a decade later, and it seems like your directing also referenced earlier moments in film history — the '50s-style title sequence Saul Bass was famous for and echoes of Film Noir and Hitchcock.

When its cinematic influences aren’t so obvious and its story particulars aren’t distractingly fuzzy, this earnestly moody film serves notice that indie urban noir can still be a potent calling card for up-and-coming talents.

Sal and Quinn war to get their pictures made; the gang goes to the Golden Globes; casting the Kool-Aid movie raises the question of not wanting to be or, at any rate, “seem” racist; the mystery of a missing reel of film is presented as film noir, with Rogen in a fedora and trench coat, “narrating” into a tape recorder.

When Krysten Ritter signed on as the titular character in Netflix’s noir drama “Marvel’s Jessica Jones,” she was drawn to the idea of the series as a psychological character study.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme, he said the "list of imagined assassination methods" on his life "reads like a film noir".