Sentences with phrase «almost film noir»

Keeper Of The Flame — Tonally misfit Tracy - Hepburn film, directed by George Cukor as almost a film noir.

It features dark, almost film noir - style lighting and bullet - time effects reminiscent of the Max Payne series.

Not exact matches

The film is split down the middle, with many elegant symmetries and curling plotlines bridging the two halves: one part is a bracing, funny, almost Keaton-esque comedy starring Harry as a deadpan center of disaster; the other is a brooding, brutal film noir, starring Sondra Locke as a vengeful femme fatale.

The Lady From Shanghai — Orson Welles's craziest film appropriately ends in a funhouse Hall Of Mirrors, as that's exactly what it does to the film noir genre: twist and distort and exaggerate it almost to the point of parody at the very peak of its popularity.

Based on a poem, it contains classic film noir imagery and a fight shown almost in real - time.

It's pretty hard to believe that Roman Polanski's «Chinatown» almost went home empty - handed at the 1975 Academy Awards (it ended up winning Best Original Screenplay), because it's not only one of the best film noirs ever made, but it's an American classic.

and diversions from the truth it soon becomes almost a parody of film noir.

Returning to the A.V. Club office after almost two weeks in the trenches of Cannes, film editor A.A. Dowd sits down with staff writer Ignatiy Vishnevetsky to talk about the best (and, as luck would have it, last) film he saw at the world's most important film festival: You Were Never Really Here, a nightmarish noir...

Unfortunately, even though this film possesses a wonderful example of retroactive narrative structure in noir, it is almost completely ignored in Tyrer's text.