Sentences with phrase «french noir film»

When 19 - year - old aspirant drummer Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller) goes to the movies with his Pennington High School writer / teacher father (Paul Reiser) there's Rififi on the hoarding, the 1955 French noir film directed by blacklisted émigré filmmaker Jules Dassin.

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Perched broodingly on a satin strewn bed, clutching the new CATHERINE bag in luxurious black softbox leather and leopard print pony, Zimmerman channels French film noir heroines, wearing vixen - like FLORA a buttery soft suede, black open - toe lattice - style boot.

Combine the two and voila: Films policiers, otherwise known as French film noir.

French cinema and filmmakers are famed for innovating styles like avant garde, film noir, art nouveau, and cinéma vérité.

As well as the murkier corners of classic film noir, Boorman drew inspiration from art photography and the French New Wave, including Jean - Luc Godard's Breathless, which was itself «speaking back» to American crime movies.

The two Melvilles are essential viewing for lovers of film noir, or of French cinema in general.

This riveting chronicle proves that Wise, a great favorite of French noir expert and Hollywood film aficionado Jean - Pierre Melville, was an absolute master of crime movies.

Brothers in arms The most dementedly elegiac thriller you've ever seen, distilling a lifetime's enthusiasm for American and French film noir, with little Chinese about it apart from the soundtrack and the looks of the three beautiful leads.

I've long been in love with film noir — those sumptuous, cynical tales of the darker side of life, an American cinematic phenomenon that started in the 1940s and was greatly influenced by German Expressionism and French Poetic Realism.

Part of the Critics Week, Our Heroes Died Tonight is a French film noir following the rise and fall of two wrestlers in the 60's.

(Peurs du Noir) Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: French Animated Feature Explores Everyday Phobias Last year, a French film named Paris, je T'aime proved that 20 directors could successfully collaborate on one movie.

In 1948, a year before they made the nonpareil thriller «The Third Man,» director Carol Reed and screenwriter Graham Greene collaborated on another tilted - camera film - noir classic: this mesmerizing story of a French diplomat's son (Bobby Henrey), who hero - worships the embassy butler (Ralph Richardson).

Here is one of the great, underrated film noirs — a movie whose reputation and stature was recognized early on by French critics and has continued to grow over the past half century.

French film noir survival horror White Night (# 13.49) is a game that may be showing its age, first hitting Xbox One in 2015.

«Rogue Cop: The Noir Connection» (13:47, HD) film historians Alain Silver and James Ursini provide critical analysis comparing The French Connection to the «rogue cop» genre within the noir traditNoir Connection» (13:47, HD) film historians Alain Silver and James Ursini provide critical analysis comparing The French Connection to the «rogue cop» genre within the noir traditnoir tradition.

Here is one of the great, underrated film noirs — a movie whose stature was recognized early on by French critics and has continued to grow over the past half century.

Jean - Pierre Melville (October 20, 1917 - August 2, 1973) was a truly moody master of French film noir classics.

The work of French poetic realist / film noir specialist Julien Duvivier gets a double feature — «Flesh and Fantasy» (1943) and «Destiny» (1944).

Why, the film noir, one of the richest veins in our movie mines, bears a French moniker; and French cinéastes have emulated that particular tradition time and again, from the commercial likes of Borsalino to the more personal genre work of the recently deceased Jean - Pierre Melville to the radically stylized, self - aware poetry of Godard's Breathless, Band of Outsiders, Alphaville, and Pierrot le fou.

If you're interested in French film, crime film, film noir, or the New Wave, these are all three must - see's.

French critics coined the term «film noir» («black film») for these movies in 1946, although the phrase wasn't used in the United States until 1968, with the publication of Hollywood in the Forties, by Charles Higham and Joel Greenberg.

As good luck may have it, acting would bring him his first achievement; first - time representative Alexandre Arcady ran an advertising seeking a young man with a French - Algerian (or «pied - noir» in France slang) accent for his film Le Coup dom Sirocco.

From the intricate recreations of the French imperial furniture to film noir stills of Hollywood stars — Grace Kelly, James Stewart, Humphrey Bogart, the artist captures a unique fragment in a time long gone and allows us to contemplate it for a little while longer.

Referencing the cinematic work of French film - noir director Jean - Luc Godard through the title of one of his most famous movies, Le Mépris (Contempt), Mr. Tuymans reflects on the filmmaker's themes of isolation, melancholy and nostalgia in these paintings of murky waters and floats in a flower parade.

The same can be said of Robert Longo and David Salle's obsession with film noir and French New Wave cinema.