Sentences with phrase «classic noir»

It begs to mention that each act contains documents to collect that flesh out the story — especially the back story — of Dawn, and seeking out each collectable is worth the time, as Contrast is kind of a tragedy in the classic noir sense.

A point and click adventure game with a classic noir storyline and a jazzy soundtrack to set the mood.

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.

A Gay Mystery Novelist Who Chronicles the Aftermath of AIDS — A compelling profile of Michael Nava and his mystery series featuring Henry Rios, a gay Latino defense attorney from Los Angeles who both represents and subverts the hardboiled detective of classic Noir mysteries.

«Skillman and Soriano weave a twisted tale of classic noir.

Glenister's resonant voice and fluid narration ably depict class and region, gender and age, while maintaining the grit and suspense of classic noir.

Selznick's upcoming picture book is a fun and campy take on those classic noir detective stories that's expertly crafted around his classic black - and - white illustrations.

Pierre Lemaitre's American debut novel, Alex, is a dark and arresting crime thriller with a classic noir edge.

Sara Flannery Murphy's debut novel, The Possessions, is an addictive, slow - burning mystery that fuses classic noir with the intrigue of speculative fiction.

The concluding volume of the late Izzo's Marseilles trilogy remains utterly uncompromising in its allegiance to the classic noir worldview.

Sara Flannery Murphy's debut novel, The Possessions, is an addictive, slow - burning mystery that fuses classic noir...

Whether or not you've read Hammett's classic noir detective novel or seen the 1941 movie, you will be entranced by this magnificent adaptation, which is a solid reminder of the power of audio.

Hear from students, leaders, teachers and others speak heartfelt words about their charter public schools, what it means to them on a human level, in this classic noir - style video.

Pilot Theatre and York Theatre Royal present a brand new adaptation of Graham Greene's classic noir thriller Brighton Rock, written by Bryony Laver...

Pilot Theatre and York Theatre Royal present a brand new adaptation of Graham Greene's classic noir thriller Brighton Rock, written by Bryony Lavery, directed by Esther Richardson, with new music by the composer Hannah Peel.

The uncomplicated yet ingeniously knotted plot takes a classic noir murder — a man killing his lover's husband so they can be together — strips away the genre clichés and infuses the film with the introspective moodiness, dynamic camerawork, unadorned location shots, and stylized but emotionally naked performances that would become a hallmark of the New Wave pictures that followed by Francois Truffaut, Jean - Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer and Malle himself.

The restoration teams at Warner Bros. and Criterion explain how they captured the silken texture of the nitrate print of Michael Curtiz's classic noir melodrama.

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.

First on the fave moments list is Marilyn looking up at Louis Calhern in the classic noir «The Asphalt Jungle» from 1950 directed by John Huston.

Outside the studio walls, Deakins bathes the film in classic noir, as Mannix drives the streets of LA, streetlights casting amber waves of light onto Brolin's leathery face through rain flecked windshields.

Lest you think classic noir is limited to private - eye offices, police stations and penthouse apartments, director Edmund Goulding's flick transports us to the seedy world of traveling carnivals.

Until Rossen directed another classic noir in 1961 (the gritty black - and - white pool - hall saga «The Hustler,» with Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason and George C. Scott) «All the King's Men» remained his best film.

Written into a wheelchair in the classic noir / Gothic tradition, Milland is basically doing Lionel Barrymore as Henry Potter.

In classic noir fashion, the audience sees only through the eyes of the protagonist, therefore we only gather the strands of the narrative and clues of the case as Doc obtains them.

All the classic noir staples are there in 1946 ′ s The Killers: Shadowy black - and - white cinematography, the sexy femme fatale (Ava Gardner), the doomed protagonist (Burt Lancaster), and the dogged investigator (Edmond O'Brien).

Subsequently, Proyas tries hard to capture the mood of a classic noir, with the shadows and whispering.

The movie is very definitely inspired by classic noir, with the «automat» and the old - fashioned movie theater, all the way down to William Hurt's classic detective costume (has anyone determined the significance of the untied shoelaces yet?)

The subject matter of this classic noir seethes with evil and frenzy, but Bellocchio's treatment is cool and brilliantly controlled.

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.

Damnation «s Sarah Jones is set as a female lead in CBS» drama pilot L.A. CONFIDENTIAL, based on James Ellroy's classic noir novel.

In «The Third Man,» he is our POV, a classic noir everyman caught in a chaotic post-war Europe.

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.

A master of classic noir and neo noir, Melville was a cool, sure - fingered expert and an immaculate artist.

Unrepentant and casual about killing for a living, Ladd's performance is classic noir; it influenced Jean - Pierre Melville's «Le Samourai» from 1967.

The young brothers made a knowing homage to classic noir, updated for»80s audiences and heavily injected with dark, often perverse, humor.

But in many ways, «Martha Ivers» is classic noir — a cynical, pessimistic mood; sharp visuals; characters trapped by secrets of the past and burdened with the weight of wrongdoing; love warped by a thirst for money and power.

In 1941, the same year he played Sam Spade, private eye, one of the greatest of all movie detectives, in John Huston's classic film noir «The Maltese Falcon,» Humphrey Bogart also played one of the greatest of all movie gangsters, Roy Earle, in Raoul Walsh «s classic noir, «High Sierra.»

A classic noir helmer, Edward Dmytryk, puts a classic noir ham, Robert Newton, through the agonies of mad marital jealousy in this lesser known, but gripping thriller.

The Maltese Falcon was the first of a long line of classic noir crime thrillers.

Indeed, I would define Criss Cross as a classic noir reeking of metaphysical doom and murky spiritual disorientation, and the original Kiss of Death as a relatively crisp and prosaic documentary - style thriller shot in natural locations like Hathaway's The House on 92nd St. (1945) and Call Northside 777 (1948), Elia Kazan's Boomerang!

Striking black and white centric cinematography and inventive editing give the film both a classic noir and arthouse vibe.

Tom's a classic noir antihero but funnier, more charming and a far bigger mess than Marlow ever was.

Directed by Henry Hathaway, this film is a bit hard to classify — the flashy Technicolor screams neo-noir while its 1953 release date puts it firmly in the classic noir camp.

Even though his adaptation sticks to the James M. Cain novel with a loving fidelity, he was surprised by how much spectre of Joan Crawford in the title role of Michael Curtiz's classic noir still looms.

12:15 am (14th)-- TCM — Sunset Boulevard Billy Wilder's classic noir explores the dark side of the rich and formerly famous, as a struggling screenwriter (William Holden) gets involved with a silent screen star seeking to make a comeback in the sound era.

M. Cain novel with a loving fidelity, he was surprised by how much spectre of Joan Crawford in the title role of Michael Curtiz's classic noir still looms.

Classic Noir script with evil villain, check.

Not unlike Sidney Lumet's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, the film is built out of classic noir conventions but keeps the circle of characters contained with in the family, to form a knotty plot that results in a domestic hell.

For all its faults and insane overreaching — seldom has a sleazy melodrama announced its aspirations to art so boldly and insistently — The Counselor is compelling as a wild and audacious take on neo-noir, though it replaces the dark shadows and intimacy of classic noir for bright lighting and an epic scope in keeping with the rest of director Ridley Scott's filmography.

These visual motifs match the sensibility of classic noir, itself channelled from a script written by author Patrick Neate.