Sentences with phrase «classic noir film»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

The elegantly restored space features independent films, film noir, classics and the occasional concerts.

Synopsis: This classic film noir by John Huston stars Humphrey Bogart as World War II vet Frank McCloud.

[A] descendant of film noir, the film resorts to classic motifs of the genre to suggest an inescapable and destructive presence, destiny, which comes hand in hand with errors in the political and social system.

A sordid tale that resembles many noir classic films from the forties and fifties, where its protagonists are police partners based on the duality of buddy movies but without the comedy.

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

Despite its distracting overuse of Dutch angle shots, this is a classic film noir crafted beautifully by Reed and Graham Greene (who worked on it by writing his excellent novella), with a fascinating villain, a fabulous post-war Vienna as its location and a perfect choice for a score.

Uncertainty and fear of the unknown are the hallmarks of this classic film noir by master director Lang, which, until the last revelation, is guaranteed to puzzle and chill the viewer.

Over time The Killing became one of the classics of film noir.

Kelly Lynch (Drugstore Cowboy) and Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill) costar in this gritty and unpredictable tale of redemption in the hard - boiled tradition of classic film noir.

FLIX ® is a celebration of all things cinema, from knee - slapping comedy to face - slapping film noir, get ready to experience the history of Hollywood, one classic at a time.

Eliot disagrees and sets up a classic film noir to prove his point.

I can't get enough of the film noir era and its style, so «Dead Men» has enticed me to see many of the classic films that contributed clips here.

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

Carl Reiner's homage to film noir has Steve Martin as a detective on a case, acting and reacting to selected bits of classic noir.

The film recalls the classic noirs of the 1940s and 1950s, and is stocked with boozy detectives, backstabbing dames and gun - toting baddies.

In this modern era, the Coen Brothers are often credited as the life support system for classic noir, but the Coens appear to have serious competition in the form of Australian filmmaker and stuntman Nash Edgerton, whose feature debut, The Square, is a brilliantly twisty, gritty contemporary film noir.

If Raymond Chandler and Chuck Jones had ever sat down together over a few beers, this is what they might have come up with: a fantastic amalgam of classic private eye mystery and brilliant razzle - dazzle Looney Tunes cartoonery — undoubtedly the greatest animated film noir feature ever made.

Other Kurosawa films with strong noir elements, both playing in the Mifune series, are the multiple - viewpoint period murder mystery masterpiece «Rashomon» (1950) and his great dark samurai classic «Yojimbo» (1961).

The film takes place 30 years after Ridley Scott's original 1982 sci - fi noir classic Blade Runner.

Against All Odds is an interesting but ultimately flawed remake of the film noir classic Out of the Past (which is paid homage to by casting the star of the original (Greer, The Big Steal) as the mother).

Still, «Leave Her to Heaven» does boast a classic film noir plot and one of the supreme movie femme fatales who's not the person you want standing behind you on a high staircase, with no witnesses.

Hall's bleak vision, his gift for working with darkness and rain, rivals classic film noir of the 1940s and»50s in its visual mastery.

Anthony Mann's T - Men (1947) is a significant entry in the classic American film noir cycle and, arguably, the best of the subcycle of «docu - noirs» that was released by Hollywood in the wake of the...

Rita Hayworth is at her most iconic as the forties sex - bomb in Gilda (Criterion, Blu - ray, DVD), a 1946 film noir classic co-starring Glenn Ford as Johnny Farrell, an American tough guy in Buenos Aires, and George Macready as Ballin Mundson, the owner of a nightclub and illegal casino who hires Johnny as his club manager.

As in the 1946 classic film noir, «Gilda,» with Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth, these tales are of the men and women who learn to «make their own luck.»

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.

Every inch of the screen is carefully constructed from classic film noir, from the honking horns and Bernard Herrmann-esque strings of the score, to the deliberately artificial - looking back projection, right down to Ben Kingsley's eccentric bow tie.

The film noir style makes this a classic detective story that'll certainly stand the test of time.

I didn't mean that I hope there's a wave of remakes, just that there might be an interest in classic American genres like film noir and the western once again.

It's based on the jazzy, snazzy Broadway show by songsmiths Kander and Ebb (of «New York, New York») and director Bob Fosse, which in turn was based on the classic 1942 film noir «Roxie Hart» by writer - producer Nunnally Johnson and director William Wellman.

The film noir classic «Laura» is part of this roster.

Starting with Carlito's assassination and flashing back to the events that lead up to it, Carlito's Way is structured like a classic film noir and filmed with such palpable claustrophobia, encroaching camera angles and skittish framing, it gives even classics like Detour and The Set - Up a run for its money in the visual entrapment department.

The first film is «Pitfall» (1948, André de Toth), featuring Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott and Jane Wyatt in a classic noir love triangle.

I Wake Up Screaming (Kino Lorber, Blu - ray)(1941), with a swaggering Victor Mature and a demure Betty Grable, is not just one of the great movie titles of classic cinema, it is one of the films that established the distinctive style and attitude of film noir.

Dahl's direction is superb, melding a classic film noir tone with a variety of dark red colors and hues — giving The Last Seduction an unsettled feeling of urgency not common to the noir genre.

But when he infects himself with a new virus that appears designed to kill its celebrity, the film becomes a modern version of the film noir classic DOA, will our hero figure out who poisoned him in - time?

«She's so beautiful, you can't believe she's in her»80s, and she's so nice,» said TCM's Robert Osborne about actress Ann Blyth, who co-starred with Joan Crawford in the classic domestic film noir «Mildred Pierce.»

The play of light, dark and shadows is reminiscent of film noir classics such as Key Largo and Asphalt Jungle that Spielberg examined carefully in order to choose the style he wanted to employ.

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

This is one of the few titles to get an «Encore Edition,» with 3000 more copies, and this edition includes additional supplements: new commentary by Twilight Time's house team of film historians Lem Dobbs, Julie Kirgo, and Nick Redman, plus video introductions by Martin Scorsese (6 minutes, carried over from the «Columbia Film Noir Classics» DVD box set) and Michael Mann (11 minutes).

Murder My Sweet (Warner Archive, Blu - ray) is not just the most faithful screen version of Raymond Chandler's hard - boiled hero Philip Marlowe from the classic era of film noir, it's also one of the best.

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.

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This classic film noir features stunning black - and - white cinematography by the great Milton R. Krasner (23 Paces to Baker Street) with an uniformly excellent cast that includes Ethel Barrymore (Portrait of Jennie), Kim Hunter (A Streetcar Named Desire), Ed Begley (12 Angry Men), Warren Stevens (Forbidden Planet), Paul Stewart (Kiss Me Deadly) and Jim Backus (Gilligan's Island).