Sentences with phrase «contemporary noir»

Walter Mosley and his new hero, Leonid McGill, are back in the new New York Times - bestselling mystery series that's already being hailed as a classic of contemporary noir.

This novel of the retail jewelry industry and a Biblical contest for love between two brothers is a masterpiece of contemporary noir.

Set in a small Chinese seaside town, overlooked by a giant statue of Marilyn Monroe, this contemporary noir wears its fury with cold grace.

Box, The by Del Harvey MTI releases this gritty contemporary noir about two people who've finally found something worth living for, if they can only escape their pasts.

China Moon by Robert Weston This example of a contemporary noir film stars Ed Harris, Madeleine Stowe, and Benicio Del Toro.

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«Hammett» is essentially a film - noir pastiche — it's difficult to produce a contemporary piece like this which doesn't seem like just an arch exercise.

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.

9 a.m. (6 a.m.): «The Money Trap» (1966, Burt Kennedy) Western ace and sometime noir - maker Kennedy («The Killer Inside Me») turns to contemporary neo-noir in this Walter Bernstein - scripted story of a corrupt cop (Glenn Ford) and his married object of desire (Hayworth).

Trixie doesn't have this sort of range, and due to its self - conscious, stylish 40s - noir references, it can't function very clearly — as Breakfast of Champions does — as a commentary on contemporary American life.

That late - noir miasma lives on indelibly in Scorsese's masterpiece, though for all its actuality it acquired a mythic aura in a way that other searing films depicting contemporary necropoli have not, among them Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa (1986, London), Mike Leigh's Naked (1993, London), Wim Wenders's Land of Plenty (2004, Los Angeles) and Andrea Arnold's Red Road (2006, Glasgow).

Screenwriter turned director Gilroy (Freejack, The Bourne Legacy) crafts a tense atmosphere in this contemporary film noir, and gives Gyllenhaal the opportunity to deliver what may be his most forceful, compelling performance yet.

It's a film entirely of the seventies New American Cinema in that way — a noir - cycle picture that shares a good deal with its Yankee contemporary Chinatown (also 1974).

It quickly gained a cult following, however, and its influence on contemporary sci - fi and film noir has been extensive.

Basically, though, the film noir flourished in and reflected a contemporary milieu; films noirs tended to have to do with the world of crime, whether overtly (police and FBI stories, private - eye flicks, gangster stories) or by extension — that is, films in which «the world of crime» proved to be inseparable from the world of nightclubs and cabarets, offices and tenements, cars and homes where private citizens might become, by accident or design, guilty souls.

This is a contemporary film noir and, amazingly, audiences have taken to it in the United States.

The $ 14 million, eight - part psychological thriller has already been hailed as Tasmania's answer to Twin Peaks, but more contemporary comparisons to the Top Of The Lake and the recent revival of The X-Files should give TV noir fans an idea of the dark and brooding drama that awaits.

The sound - bite version of this is that both are recycled noirs with contemporary settings.

Cole left behind a celluloid track record of outstanding dance sequences with highly diverse themes (including some with a noir - tinged, nightclubby vibe), all with a recognizable Cole brand that is uncannily contemporary.

THE CANYONS is a contemporary L.A. noir from director Paul Schrader, writer Bret Easton Ellis, and producer Braxton Pope about the dangers of sexual obsession and ambition, both personally and professionally, among a group of young people in their 20 ′ s and how one chance meeting connected to the past unravels all of their lives, resulting in deceit, paranoia, cruel mind games and ultimately violence.

Click here to listen to the interview with Joel Edgerton (17:21) THE SQUARE is a film noir in the classic mold but with a distinctly contemporary flavor.

This is the darkest film noir; it challenges us to come along for the roller coaster ride through the toxic atmosphere of contemporary politics even if we have nothing (no one, actually) to hold onto for emotional strength.

Since the early 1990s, T. Jefferson Parker has been lauded as the go - to guy for contemporary California noir, thanks to such genre classics as Laguna Heat, Silent Joe and Little Saigon.

One could easily be forgiven for consigning Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther series to the war novel genre, or perhaps even historical fiction, but the simple fact is that Kerr crafts some of the finest mystery novels in contemporary fiction, noir classics set against the multiple backdrops of WWII's far - reaching stages.

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.

In this stunning homage to James M. Cain, Lippman takes the mood and some of the themes from Cain's classic noirs and brilliantly refashions them into a thoroughly contemporary story of a hard - luck woman trying to right her life by whatever means necessary.

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O'Neal's drawings and paintings have been shown at The Drawing Center, New York; BRIC, Brooklyn; P.S. 122, New York; Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY; Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta; Tennessee Arts Commission, Nashville; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS; Centre d'Art des Pénitents Noirs, Aubagne, France; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; Chicago Cultural Center; Ecomuseu, Valls d'Aneu, Spain; Amory Arts Center, West Palm Beach, FL; Huntsville Museum of Art, AL; Rockefeller Art Center, SUNY Fredonia; ART LA; Field Projects, New York; and Linda Warren Projects, Chicago.

STAN DOUGLAS: Interregnum @ Wiels Contemporary Art Centre Brussels, Belgium Recognized for film work exploring lost utopias of the 20th century, Canadian artist Stan Douglas is premiering the six - screen video installation, «The Secret Agent,» which continues his interest in post-war history and film noir.

An exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, USA Discussions dans le Boudoir, Musée Magnin, Dijon, France Konkretismus: Material / sprache und abstraktion seit 1955, Baden - Württembergisch Bank Vorstand, Stuttgart, Germany A Piece of History, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, USA Minimal to the Max: The Brownstone Collection, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, USA Le noir est une couleur, Fondation Maeght, Saint - Paul - de-Vence, France Faster!Bigger!Better!

Intermittent Delight Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA London) Avant - Noir Artists» Film Biennial 2014 screening with works by Kevin Jerome Everson, Christopher Harris, & Kahlil Joseph July 3rd, 2014 — July 6th, 2014 London, UK

However Yang renders contemporary China as a pastiche, excerpting imagery and techniques as diverse as film noir on the one hand and the contemplative tradition of Chinese gardens on the other.

Select group exhibitions featuring her work include Telling Tales: Contemporary Narrative Photography, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX (2016 - 2015); Open Rhapsody, Beirut Exhibition Center, Lebanon (2015); The Noir Effect, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles (2014); No Fashion, Please: Photography Between Gender and Lifestyle, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2011); and New Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010).

With this in mind, let me evoke the American noir sensibility through the contemporary notion of key words (here grouped for poetic effect): Contorted Narrative Alienation / Distant Blue Darkness / Dramatic Adjectival Allure / Visceral Black & Blue Bruises / Pleasureless Expressionist Stiletto / Awkward Lone Gothic / Unforgiven Repressed Revulsion / Strangled Outsider Vernacular.

When he's not busy with contemporary craft, he raises pygmy goats and makes his own pinot noir.

EXHIBITIONS 2016 «Growth / Decay», Antler Gallery - Portland, OR 2016 «Growth / Decay», Paradigm Gallery - Philadelphia, PA 2016 «Year Two», Sweet As Studios - Pittsburgh, PA 2016 «Photobook 2015 Exhibition», Griffin Museum of Photography - Winchester, MA 2015 «Photobook 2015 Exhibition», Davis Orton Gallery - Hudson, NY 2015 «Art All Day», Artworks Trenton - Trenton, NJ 2014 «Works by Nick Pedersen», Paradigm Gallery - Philadelphia, PA 2014 «Pratt Digital Arts» Art Basel Miami Beach - Miami, FL 2014 «Virtual Vision», Auguste Clown Gallery - Melbourne, Australia 2014 «Art All Night», Artworks Trenton - Trenton, NJ 2013 «Story of the Creative», Angel Orensanz Foundation - New York City, NY 2013 «Superstition», San Francisco Center for the Book - San Francisco, CA 2013 «Graphique Noir», Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, CA 2012 «Electron Salon», Los Angeles Center for Digital Art - Los Angeles, CA 2012 «Daylight Savings», The Banff Centre - Alberta, Canada 2011 «Object / Self / Subject», Museum of Russian Art - Jersey City, NJ 2011 «Devoción por un ídolo», Bastardo Gallery — Bogotá, Colombia 2011 «Pratt Show», The Manhattan Center - New York City, NY 2011 «Digital Print Exhibition», D&D Building - New York City, NY 2010 «Art and Sustainability», Schafler Gallery - Brooklyn, NY 2009 «Politics and Media», Schafler Gallery - Brooklyn, NY

It was shown at Avant - Noir, the 2014 Artists» Film Biennial at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.

His work has been included in a number of important exhibitions, including Larry Bell, Robert Irwin, Doug Wheeler (Tate Gallery, London, 1970); Rooms (The Institute for Art and Urban Resources at P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York, 1976); Ambiente / Arte (37th Venice Biennale, 1976); The First Show: Paintings and Sculpture from Eight Collections 1940 - 1980 (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1983); Sunshine and Noir: Art in LA 1960 - 1997, (Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk, Denmark, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, and Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 1997 - 1998); and Percepciones en transformación: La Colección Panza del Museo Guggenheim Bilbao (Changing Perceptions: The Panza Collection at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 2000 - 2001), among others.

A maelstrom of references and influences from vaudeville to film noir to modern dance, Sullivan's appropriation of classic filming styles, period costumes, and contemporary spaces (such as corporate offices) draws the viewer's attention away from traditional narratives and towards an examination of performance itself.

Art and Black Los Angeles 1960 - 1980 UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970 Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach (traveled to UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver; SITE Santa Fe; The Bronx Museum, New York) 2010 Summer Group Show Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles The Artist's Museum: Los Angeles Artists 1980 - 2010 The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles The Seventh House Project Row Houses, Houston Noir Complex Magazin 4, Bregenzer Kunstverein (traveled to Brandenburgischer Kunstverein, Potsdam) Project Row Houses, Houston Man Son, Vom Schrecken der Situation Galerien der Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen Am Necker 2009 Collection: MOCA's First Thirty Years, 1980 — Now The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles Oz: New Offerings from Angel City Regional Museum of Guadalajara, Guadalajara Attempt to Raise Hell San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art Downtown, San Diego Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York 2008 Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles Weighing and Wanting Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla Entre Chien et Loup Kent Gallery, New York Wild Signals — Artistic Postions between Symptom and Analysis Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart Idea, Text and Image, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland 2007 Im Wort Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen Read Me: Text in Art Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena From Close to Home: Recent Acquisitions of Los Angeles Art Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 2005 Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970 Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston Hommage to Friedrich Schiller Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart Kamm Gallery Anniversary Exhibition Galerie Kamm, Berlin 2004 Fade (1990 - Present): African American Artists in Los Angeles, a Survey Exhibition Luckman Gallery and the University Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles Recherche - entdeckt!

Film noir imagery is taken out of context in order to connect viewers specifically to the romance, and occasional heroism found in American film noir, and to let them reflect on contemporary ideas of romance and heroism.

Projet Est - Ouest, Espace 72, Dison, Verviers, Belgium curated by Claude Degueldre MCA Exposed: Defining Moments in Photography, 1967 - 2007 Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 2006 A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu: colors, Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, Germany American Identities, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY.