Sentences with phrase «black dahlia»

In 1947, this house was made famous because of the Black Dahlia murder.

With a title which references the infamous Black Dahlia murder in 1940s Hollywood, Last Seen Entering The Biltmore is a group exhibition which considers the idea of artifice and theatricality and particularly draws attention to the idea of the theatrical «backstage» as a threshold where transformation takes place.

The title is actually taken from a collection of short stories and plays by Gary Indiana, and refers to the events surrounding the case of Elisabeth Short, who was last seen entering the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles in 1947 before she was found murdered and became known as the Black Dahlia.

BLACK DAHLIA.

The title refers to the events surrounding the case of Elisabeth Short, who was last seen entering the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles in 1947 before she was found murdered and became known as the Black Dahlia, elevated to iconic status by media frenzy in a city devoted to the production of artifice.

The game not only contains a lot of references to films like L.A Confidential, Chinatown, The Untouchables, and The Black Dahlia, but it uses some real crime incidents based upon real life cases reported in 1947.

The Headbanger graphic was created by James Callahan, known for his work with Municipal Waste, and the Razorgirl graphic by Daniel Mumford, known for his work with Black Dahlia Murder.

James Ellroy's «The Black Dahlia» comes to comics, «Big Trouble in Little China» and «The Baker Street Peculiars» say farewell, plus more!

To take the approach of a pitch for a Hollywood movie: Midnight in Peking is The Black Dahlia meets Inspector Morse, with a little Empire of the Sun thrown in.

Runners up: The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma), The Bridesmaid (Claude Chabrol), Bubble (Steven Soderbergh), The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu), Fearless (Ronny Yu), Happy Feet (George Miller), Inside Man (Spike Lee), The Intruder (Claire Denis), Lady Vengeance (Park Chan - wook), A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater)

The two fictional gumshoes in Brian De Palma's hotly - anticipated adaptation of James Ellroy's brilliant L.A. noir The Black Dahlia (and who better to join in holy matrimony than the insane Ellroy and the almost - as - insane De Palma?)

The Black Dahlia is a lot more like his The Untouchables than the Chinatown to which it aspires — a technically - marvellous picture (its use of sound is astonishing) overburdened by a couple of actors simply incapable of saying the words.

There are too many talented people involved with «The Black Dahlia» for it to end up this bad.

Frank the Bastard looks like a thoroughly tense thriller with a great cast including the always watchable William Sadler (The Shawshank Redemption, The Mist, Demon Knight), along with Rachel Miner (The Black Dahlia, Penny... Read More

Two weeks back Bloody exclusively reports that Mia Kirshner («The L Word,» 388 Arletta Avenue, The Black Dahlia) Erik Knudsen (Scream...

The film casts Scarlett Johansson (The Prestige, The Black Dahlia) as Annie Braddock, out of college, out of a job, and so desperate for money that she accepts a gig as a nanny for a well - to - do family in ritzy Manhattan.

HOLLYWOODLAND * / **** starring Adrien Brody, Diane Lane, Ben Affleck, Bob Hoskins screenplay by Paul Bernbaum directed by Allen Coulter THE BLACK DAHLIA ** 1/2 / **** starring Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank screenplay by Josh Friedman, based on the novel by James Ellroy directed by Brian De Palma FACTOTUM ** 1/2 / **** starring Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, Marisa Tomei, Didier Flamand screenplay by Bent Hamer and Jim Stark, based on the novel by Charles Bukowski directed by Bent Hamer

I keep meaning to watch The Black Dahlia, because I've read the book and love it.

This is the first ASC Award for Lubezki, who was nominated along with Dick Pope, for The Illusionist; Dean Semler, for Apocalypto; Robert Richardson, for The Good Shepherd; and Vilmos Zsigmond, for The Black Dahlia.

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Josh Hartnett (The Black Dahlia, Lucky Number Slevin) gets the most screen time, playing Erik Keman Jr., a sports reporter (and neglected son of a famous sportscaster himself) for the Denver Post who is fighting to keep his job now that cutbacks are rumored due to people getting their news from the internet and other sources.

View image Look back in Angora: An Ed Wood moment between Josh Hartnett and Scarlett Johansson in Brian De Palma's «The Black Dahlia.»

She has been linked to many famous men, including Benicio del Toro, Jared Leto, Justin Timberlake, and her Black Dahlia co-star Josh Hartnett, though Johansson denies she had a relationship with del Toro.

«Following The Black Dahlia and Redacted, Passion is a return to form for Brian De Palma, but to compare the film to Femme Fatale's heady and delirious fusion of h...

In anticipation of Brian DePalma's «The Black Dahlia,» which premiered at the Venice Film Festival to bi-polar reviews and opens in the US September 15, a number of sites are celebrating the modern master of the rapturous moving camera.

I'm told they are photoshop manipulations from The Black Dahlia.

It's a comedy hardboiled noir, a plastic Black Dahlia with something of PT Anderson's Boogie Nights, Altman's version of Long Goodbye and even some weird touches of Lynch as characters get up from car wrecks to stagger around the highway for a bit.

Her story spurred a plethora of media coverage as well as non-fiction and fiction books, including James Ellroy's 1987 novel, «The Black Dahlia,» which was the basis for Brian DePalma's film of the same name, made in 2006.

Her search for her birth mother led her to one of the prime suspects in the Black Dahlia Murder — one of Hollywood's most enduring crimes.

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(BTW, as I write this, «Idiocracy» has a 71 % rating on RottenTomatoes.com, compared to 43 % for last week's box - office topper, «Gridiron Gang»; 31 % for Brian De Palma's «The Black Dahlia»; and 17 % for «All the King's Men,» opening Friday.)

After the experimental political polemic Redacted and the gun - for - hire mess The Black Dahlia, Brian De Palma has returned to what should be his comfort zone; a violent, erotic thriller which he actually wrote himself.

The Black Dahlia has occasional hiccups of interest, but never really strings them together sufficiently to gain any momentum.

Those who are interested in grisly crime mysteries will already recognize the subject of Ellroy's book as the infamous «Black Dahlia» murder, where a young female drifter named Elizabeth Short (Kirshner, According to Spencer) was murdered, her torso cut in half, and her body drained of blood.

Brian De Palma (Mission to Mars, Snake Eyes) takes on James Ellroy's 1987 neo-noir novel, «The Black Dahlia», but this one's no L.A. Confidential.

Josh Hartnett (The Black Dahlia, Pearl Harbor) crosses over to the dark side in this bone - chilling adaptation of the cult - hit graphic novel, brought to the screen in all its demonic glory.

With indie - film admirers Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow at the helm, De Palma holds forth with bracing candour on his hits (Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Mission: Impossible, The Untouchables), his misses (The Bonfire of the Vanities, Casualties of War, The Black Dahlia) and his excursions in excess (Scarface, Body Double, Murder à la Mod and much more).

In 2006 another James Ellroy novel «The Black Dahlia» was made into a movie directed by Brian DePalma.

While investigating the murder of her father by her blind younger brother, a young woman disturbs the vengeful spirit of Elizabeth Short, known in legend as «The Black Dahlia».

If you haven't seen The Black Dahlia do it just to get off.

Brian De Palma returns with a new crime thriller drawn from James Ellroy's fictional account of the notorious Los Angeles murder of a would - be Hollywood starlet dubbed the Black Dahlia.

He also starred in LUCKY NUMBER SLEVIN with Morgan Freeman and Bruce Willis, and THE BLACK DAHLIA for director Brian De Palma, opposite Scarlett Johansson.

There are moments when The Black Dahlia projects a spectral world, but its ghosts in broad daylight are elusive at best.

An over indulgent and often confusing stab at film noir, The Black Dahlia leaves little to be desired as director Brian De Palma continues to prove that his best days are behind him.

Two ex-pugilist cops, Lee Blanchard and Bucky Bleichert, are called to investigate the homicide of ambitious silver - screen B - lister Betty Ann Short — aka «The Black Dahlia» — an attack so grisly that images of the killing were kept from the public.

The Black Dahlia is a boring, dull film and if you're looking for an excellent murder thriller, this film definitely isn't it.

Who killed the Black Dahlia?

The Black Dahlia was a film that I was really looking forward to seeing.

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Elizabeth Short (July 29, 1924 — January 14 or 15, 1947), known posthumously as the Black Dahlia, was an American woman who was found murdered in the Ratings agency Moody's Investor Services has taken the knife to the massive China developer Dalian Wanda's credit rating.