Sentences with phrase «preminger noir film»

On July 14, Kent Westmoreland, head mixologist at Windsor Court's Cocktail Bar, will partner with celebrity guest bartender and host of The Proper Pour Charlotte Voisey of William Grant and Sons to serve special cocktails inspired by classic noir films and fiction.

The writing is pretty darn lacking, the character models look awful and the tone tries to compel the noir film style, failing terribly to the point that seems a farce.

While Anon doesn't boast a superior story, it's engaging in the way many B - grade noir films from the «40s and «50s were — pulpy excursions into the dark side of human nature with hard - bitten heroes and duplicitous femmes fatale.

Her first American film was WILLOW for George Lucas and directed by Ron Howard, followed by the noir film KILL ME AGAIN for John Dahl, NAVY SEALS with Charlie Sheen, SHATTERED with Tom Berenger, THE GUILTY with Bill Pullman, THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO LITTLE with Bill Murray, and A TEXAS FUNERAL with Martin Sheen.

Intercut in the fantastical story of Martin's character are scenes from classic mystery and noir films.

I too love and respect Paul Thomas Anderson's work but it seems that he was trying to make some sort of «stoner noir film» here, but maybe he was inhaling too much wacky tobaccy himself while making it!

The Oscar - winning screenplay is actually based on several titles in James Ellroy's series of chronological thriller novels (including the title volume, The Big Nowhere, and White Jazz)-- a compelling blend of L.A. history and pulp fiction that has earned it comparisons to the greatest of all Technicolor noir films, Chinatown.

The music throughout the film has the air of a classic noir film, which is one of the elements that works to subtly bring the two genres together without feeling forced.

China Moon by Robert Weston This example of a contemporary noir film stars Ed Harris, Madeleine Stowe, and Benicio Del Toro.

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.

A noir film that strips the genre to its diamond core, the film is also infused with its protagonist's quiet, contemplative, yearning romanticism.

I think the critical reaction to it is largely because of nostalgia for the noir films it tries to recreate.

Antonio Campos: It's a faithful noir film about a contract killer, from a time when not many films were made like that.

Those features, all in HD, begin with an audio commentary by Alain Silver and James Ursini, historians who have recorded tracks for nearly twenty noir films of the 1940s and»50s.

Adapted by Tim Krabbé from his 1984 Dutch novel The Golden Egg, it is reminiscent of the few Scandinavian noir films I've seen, but has a distinct identity of its own that reflects the time and place it was made.

It also makes good use of shadows that would be common for a noir film.

A suave and sophisticated noir film moved from the shadowy backstreets to the broad daylight of a public high school, Brick is as spellbinding as it is original.

10:15 pm — TCM — Double Indemnity Quite probably the most definitive film noir film in existence (vying only with The Big Sleep in my head, anyway) has insurance salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) being seduced by bored housewife Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) and convinced by her to help murder her husband for the insurance money.

12:00 M — TCM — The Big Heat Director Fritz Lang came out of the German Expressionist movement of the 1920s, so it's not surprising that he ended up making some of the better noir films, given film noir's borrowing of Expressionist style.

Not mention setting the early benchmark for noir films.

Not mention setting the early benchmark for noirs films.

9:00 am — Fox Movie — Nightmare Alley Fox didn't make too many noir films, and this one just barely sneaks in by virtue of... some high contrast lighting here and there?

7:30 am — TCM — The Big Heat Director Fritz Lang came out of the German Expressionist movement of the 1920s, so it's not surprising that he ended up making some of the better noir films, given film noir's borrowing of Expressionist style.

11:30 pm / 10:30 pm — TCM — Kiss Me Deadly I actually didn't love this well - respected hard - boiled noir film as much as I wanted to when I saw it last year, but I'm throwing it in here because it is reasonably solid, and one of those films you have to see to count yourself a competent film noir fan.

Australian cinema might not normally be a home for noir films, but Craig Lahiff's newest film «Swerve» takes us right up that alley.

«Inherent Vice,» Dec. 12 Five - time Oscar - nominated director Paul Thomas Anderson has adapted Thomas Pynchon's novel about a Los Angeles detective during the drug - addled era of the»70s and his search for his missing, former girlfriend for this part crime comedy, part noir film.

Film noir was always a cynical and dark (thematically and literally) genre, but 1949 saw the end of the first wave of classic noir films being replaced by the far rawer and more violent wave of B - grade noirs by the likes of directors such as Joseph H Lewis, Robert Aldrich and Samuel Fuller.

6:15 pm — TCM — The Big Heat Director Fritz Lang came out of the German Expressionist movement of the 1920s, so it's not surprising that he ended up making some of the better noir films, given film noir's borrowing of Expressionist style.

7:00 am — TCM — Kiss Me Deadly Fairly iconic noir film, with hard - boiled action, nuclear paranoia, and one of the more memorable non-Hitchcock McGuffins in movie history.

The 69 - year - old director also gets to indulge his love of classic noir films, devoting a large chunk of the series to scripted reenactments and other supposed events, starring actor Peter Sarsgaard as Olson.

Is an introduction really necessary for one of the greatest noir films ever created?

Although it finishes at the bottom, Following gave every indication that Christopher Nolan was a writer / director with a sharp point of view who could weave a complex narrative into a cohesive story — laying the groundwork for a noir film like Memento.

Not since Chinatown has a modern noir film been able to captivate on this level, and while it falls just short of being the artistic masterpiece that Roman Polanski had been able to deliver, it's difficult to imagine improving LA Confidential to make it any more engaging or satisfying.

I'd never heard of this noir film until a friend lent it to me, but hey, Robert Wise usually makes good pictures, right?

The lush black - and - white cinematography hearkens back the those noir films upon which this film draws its inspiration, films like Double Indemnity and The Phantom Lady.

The Man Who Wasn't There is the Coen homage to the great film noir films of the 40s Hollywood, and for the most part plays along those lines much of the way.

The Coen's delve into familiar territory, having done an excellent modern - day noir film Blood Simple as their big screen debut back in 1984.

The Harfords» apartment calls to mind an Otto Preminger noir film of the 40s or 50s, and the costume orgy harks all the way back to silent cinema — not to mention Georges Franju's Judex — in its ceremonial intensity.

Originally starting as a satire built around the plot to the classic noir film, Double Indemnity (the original shooting script was called Triple Indemnity), Fatal Instinct injects a heaping dose of spoofs on modern neo-noir plus the tawdry sex thrillers that have come out over the 1970s to the early 1990s.

18 noir films, all in 35 mm, will screen at Chicago's Music Box Theater from Friday, August 25 through Thursday, August 31.

9:00 am — TCM — Double Indemnity Quite probably the most definitive film noir film in existence (vying only with The Big Sleep in my head, anyway) has insurance salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) being seduced by bored housewife Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) and convinced by her to help murder her husband for the insurance money.

4:15 am (11th)-- TCM — Kiss Me Deadly Fairly iconic noir film, with hard - boiled action, nuclear paranoia, and one of the more memorable non-Hitchcock McGuffins in movie history.

Fans of noir film and fiction will find a lot to enjoy in this loving genre tribute, and those already familiar with Moore's books will simply be in love.»

Take an amble around the resorts many shops in search of that perfect souvenir, or perhaps watch a classic noir film at the open - air cinema.

Now gamers can play in «Noir Mode», giving the game that gritty feel of a noir film.

Bee, a painter, editor, and book artist, has recently worked on a series of oil paintings depicting colorized black - and - white film stills from noir films, such as Pickpocket (1959), Criss Cross (1949) and Trouble Ahead (1935).

In a way, the first movies I really liked were the early L.A. noir films.»

She has described the work as «a seedy noir film that wishes it was an intellectual thriller».

Each of the small scale images is a black and white photograph staged and developed, to look like a still from a noir film of the 50s or 60s.

Tickling my fancy was Drew Heitzler's Night Tide (for Sailors, Mermaids, Mystics), 2007 — a re-edit of the titular 1961 noir film, in which a young Dennis Hopper plays a sailor, on leave in Venice, California, who falls in love with a sideshow performer, Mora the Mermaid.