Sentences with phrase «contemporary noir film»

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

Not exact matches

«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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.