Sentences with phrase «classic noir crime»

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

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A smart, sharp and outragiously weird crime - thriller that «s loaded with a great sense of classic film noir style, ideas and star - power.

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.

There are a refreshing number of Newly Featured titles this week, from Golden Age musicals to classic noir to Kurosawa masterpieces to modern crime thrillers.

Whether it's modern noir («L.A. Confidential»), an old classic («Chinatown»), a genre - bending head trip («Mulholland Dr.») or even a cartoon («Who Framed Roger Rabbit»), film loves to pull back the curtain of Hollywood's seedy underbelly and expose the world of crime.

For those few that caught his modern noir, THE WAY OF THE GUN (featuring a career - best Ryan Phillippe, as well as Benicio Del Toro, Juliette Lewis and James Caan), most will remember it as a brutal, brilliantly structured and cruelly overlooked crime classic.

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.

Denise Hamilton is an American crime novelist, journalist and editor of the Edgar - award winning anthologies Los Angeles Noir and Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics.

Winner of the Danish Crime Novel of the Decade, S.J. Gazan's debut novel The Dinosaur Feather is a classic of Scandinavian noir, from its richly imagined and deeply flawed characters to its scintillating exploration of one of the most fascinating aspects of contemporary dinosaur and avian research.

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

For beyond - a-reasonable-doubt evidence, see the Library of America's two - volume Women Crime Writers (2015), which collects eight terrific thrillers from the»40s and»50s, including the novels that inspired the classic film noirs Laura, The Reckless Moment, and In a Lonely Place.

Having said that, she was faced with the challenge of producing a cover that conveyed the gritty sinister feel of a classic crime noir novel with a hint the book was a science fiction story as well.

Mysterious, melancholy and menacing, JAZZ NOIR offers a fresh spin on crime jazz, film noir and timeless classNOIR offers a fresh spin on crime jazz, film noir and timeless classnoir and timeless classics.

His latest is Jazz Noir, a fresh spin on crime jazz, film noir movie themes and timeless classNoir, a fresh spin on crime jazz, film noir movie themes and timeless classnoir movie themes and timeless classics.

Selections include classic movie themes from Touch of Evil, Laura, Chinatown, Vertigo, Taxi Driver, Blues In The Night, Twin Peaks, Toute Une Vie, High Wall, The Long Goodbye and Stormy Weather, modern standards Estate, Caravan, Here's Looking At You and Golden Lady, and two originals: Film Noir (from a poem by Dana Gioia) and Crime Scenes, a San Francisco - inspired jazz suite with voiceover narration in the hardboiled style of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.

Put the clues together and you'll unlock two Noir Style Filters, which will give your Story Mode gameplay and Snapmatic photos the feel of a gritty old school crime classic.

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