Sentences with phrase «bad noir film»

Not exact matches

The late Gloria Grahame, the bad girl of film noir, blazed up the screen as the local temptress in It's a Wonderful Life, the girl who couldn't say no -LRB-...)

You may remember from the last column, US # 77, I wrote about the 1947 film noir Desperate and mentioned that the leading character got his wife out of town before the bad guys could do her any harm.

Muller is particularly illuminating when discussing Otto Preminger's formal inventiveness — his long, subtle takes, his ability to create compositions that essentially edit the film within the camera — and the various noir «types» that inhabit the narrative, such as the «bad cop» or the sickly neighbor who, in Muller's words, is often «waiting around to be a plot point in a crime story.»

In the hotel that Colleoni calls home, the furniture is too kitsch and gaudy; the messy marital home of Pinkie looks like a badly put together and unauthentic theatre stage; and the incorporation of bikers doesn't work because Joffe is unable to escape the fact that the source material lends itself to film noir.

Along with longtime producing and writing partner Grant Heslov, Clooney took the Coen Brothers» post-Blood Simple, proto - Fargo script and married a classic Coen Brothers» plot involving greedy, inept criminals, cosmic comeuppance, and film noir homage to a woefully misguided, badly underwritten, running racial subplot that could have been safely deleted altogether or rewritten as a standalone film.

Bening, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Grahame, gives a stunning, mature performance as the famous actress who won an Academy Award for the 1952 The Bad and the Beautiful, that title an apt description for Grahame's film noir roles, my favorite The Big Heat.

Directed by Paul McGuigan (in a decisive change of pace after «Victor Frankenstein»), the film offers a «My Week With Marilyn» - style gloss on the life of the great, oft - neglected stage and screen actress Gloria Grahame (Bening), who won an Academy Award for «The Bad and the Beautiful» and who is perhaps best remembered now for her heartbreaking performance opposite Humphrey Bogart in Nicholas Ray's 1950 noir masterpiece, «In a Lonely Place.»

Ryan, one of the great film noir heavies, could play sociopathic bad guys like few other actors on screen.

Although this subject matter never could have been made decades ago, Bad Education is, at its heart, a throwback crime thriller, very similar in themes to the classic film noir days.

Deadfall shares this cold climate with Sam Raimi's A Simple Plan but avoids that film's ironic glee at the sight of greedy rubes going from bad to worse as they follow noir's typically downhill trajectory.

Honing its craft the company largely focused on crime thrillers and films noir such as Man Bait, Bad Blonde, and Terror Street.

THE HOT SPOT Experience film noir like never before when a lowlife drifter (Don Johnson, Django Unchained), who sells used cars in a Texas burg, robs the local bank and gets involved with two sultry women: one bad, one innocent.

The Square could easily be an Australian cousin to Blood Simple, only the new film's downward spiral of bad choices, worse reactions and overall subterfuge goes much deeper and affects more people than the early Coen brothers» noir.

The very suggestion of making a sequel to Ridley Scott's seminal sci - fi noir Blade Runner was a bad enough idea to send most self - respecting film aficionados into a conniption fit, as Harrison Ford seemed determined to resurrect all of his most beloved characters and do his best to destroy their legacy one by one.

As in a typical film noir, Getty falls for the bad girl, conspires with her to commit some crime (including a murder or two) and comes to a bad end.