Sentences with phrase «day noir film»

The Coen's delve into familiar territory, having done an excellent modern - day noir film Blood Simple as their big screen debut back in 1984.

Not exact matches

In the space of a few days Theresa May has discovered that the UK's role in the so called special relationship is the equivalent of following a «femme fatale» in a film noir.

The year 1997 featured Sutherland as Joey in a modern film noir called The Last Days of Frankie the Fly, and as director of the psycho - thriller Truth or Consequences, N.M..

An over indulgent and often confusing stab at film noir, The Black Dahlia leaves little to be desired as director Brian De Palma continues to prove that his best days are behind him.

Despite Blade Runner's modern day status as one of the greatest films ever made, the 1982 sci - fi noir was not as well - received upon its initial theatrical release as many fans might think.

In addition to the three - day «Citizen Kane» workshop, I did a Q&A with the actor Jason Patric after a screening of James Foley's «After Dark, My Sweet» (1990), a modern film noir that made both of the Best Ten lists on «Siskel & Ebert,» but sank so quickly at the box office that it never played Chicago and grossed less than $ 2 million.

Other significant personal preems, in order of original release, included: Buster Keaton's Go West (1925) and College (directed by James V. Horne, 1927); Howard Hughes's and James Whale's Hell's Angels (1928 - 30), featuring (sorry, other Howard) the most awesome aerial scenes I've ever witnessed; John Ford's Up the River (1930) and Airmail (1932); Michael Curtiz's The Kennel Murder Case (1933), utterly silly but quite beguiling as an empty exercise in directorial pizzazz; Gordon Wiles's — and Daniel Fuchs's — The Gangster (1947), an archetypal arty film noir; Val Lewton's Apache Drums; (directed by Hugo Fregonese, 1951); Richard Fleischer's The Narrow Margin (1952); Robert Bresson's Quâtre Nuits d'un rêveur (1971); Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974); Phil Karlson's Framed (1975); Clint Eastwood's The Gauntlet (1977); and Robert Mulligan's Bloodbrothers (1978), which returned to Seattle (after a five - day first run in» 78) only via Showtime.

The one certainty is that WWII served as a catalyst for the organic evolution of the genre's texture, and that noir remains to this day one of the most popular film styles for revision, emulation, and in the case of The Man Who Wasn't There, resurrection.

Originally aired in 1986, and featuring Michael Gambon in a tour - de-force performance as psoriasis - deformed writer Philip E. Marlow, The Singing Detective fused three narratives: a present - day drama about a psychiatrist trying to get the root of Marlow's childhood trauma, flashbacks to the writer's past, and a Raymond Chandler - eseque 1940s film noir fantasy.

Vivian Qu Vivian Qu's (Trap Street, 2013) sophomore film (the only woman to be competing in the 2017 Venice Film Festival) is a modern - day noir focusing on female characters in the wake of a terrible crime.

This pungent little film noir sleeper is part of Dick Powell Day.

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.

Pick of the Week: John Garfield Day is Tuesday, March 4 A film noir feast: Nine movies with one of the great film noir stars, John Garfield — a quintessential New York City actor and Warner Brothers tough guy, whose movies and roles were full of nerve, chutzpah and street smarts, and who was born in the city, a.k.a. Jacob Julius Garfinkle.

The second day of Noir City featured four wildly different films, each in service to noir in its own Noir City featured four wildly different films, each in service to noir in its own noir in its own way.

Though «Dark Passage» wasn't a huge hit in its day — audiences weren't crazy about being deprived of Bogart — it's a film noir treasure that rarely gets its due.

You need to submit yourself to the humdrum, day to day farm life to make progress, but it can start to feel like you're spreading yourself a little too thin, especially when you add to that the relentless friendship grinding and film noir spying the plot demands.

The style of the game feels like a Day of the Dead holiday inspired by film noir and Latin American culture.

He'll co-star with Christina Hendricks and Gosling's real - life love Eva Mendes in the film, which will weave «fantasy noir, horror and suspense into a modern - day fairytale» about «the surreal dreamscape of a vanishing city» and an underwater town.