Sentences with phrase «fatale as»

Drawing parallels between Tomie — a Japanese horror manga with an infinitely regenerative femme fatale as its protagonist — and Pando — a prodigious and clonal forest colony in Utah that revitalizes itself in the wake of wildfires — Spence considers the potential for destructive acts to give rise to additive, creative, and infinite forms.

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Foster Hirsch, author of «Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir» puts it this way: «While the protagonist is conceived securely within a noir tradition, the film rewrites the femme fatale as a victim rather than a manipulator of male desire.»

Dorgo Mikawber is a resident of the city of Valdar, a cesspit with as many cutthroats, remorseless killers and femme fatales as there are minotaurs, centaurs, fawns, and dwarves.

Not exact matches

The Don Juan or femme fatale who has repeated affairs is acting out deep problems such as anxiety about sexual adequacy or identity, hatred toward the opposite sex, or the unconscious search for the missing parent of the opposite sex.

Not only is back to wearing leggings as pants, but she's also sporting over-the-knee (and over-the-top) boots that walk a fine line between femme fatale and fashion fail.

The gossamer fabric gives it the perfect femme fatale flair, and the frills in the front of the shirt provides that extra delicate detail, as well as a bit of coverage.

Ines de la Fressange (considered by some as the ideal Parisienne) offers ways to master the «offbeat look à la Parisienne» to the New York Times; «Wearing jeans with gem - encrusted sandals, not sneakers; a pencil skirt with ballet flats, not heels; an evening dress with a straw handbag, not a gold clutch; a chiffon print dress with battered biker boots, not brand - new ballet flats; a sequined sweater with men's trousers, not a skirt; a tuxedo jacket with sneakers, not femme fatale stilettos.»

Costume designer Stephanie Maslansky on the Black Fleece by day and masked - vigilante by night looks, as well as that femme fatale who wears all the Prada, Alexander McQueen and Victoria Beckham.

If you've set yourself as a femme fatale, you can't open the door in a tacky t - shirt and sweatpants with messy hair.

this flick overthrows the usual typecasting for humprey bogart and babara stanwyck, the former constantly as detective hero or gangster villain; the later freuently as self - assured heroine or shrewd femme fatale.

Mary Astor is captivating as the requisite femme fatale.

Roger's bombshell wife Jessica slinks and shimmies on stage as a lounge singer, and the busty femme fatale is no traditional Disney heroine.

The film is split down the middle, with many elegant symmetries and curling plotlines bridging the two halves: one part is a bracing, funny, almost Keaton-esque comedy starring Harry as a deadpan center of disaster; the other is a brooding, brutal film noir, starring Sondra Locke as a vengeful femme fatale.

In this, she starred as femme fatale Ava Lord living amongst some of Sin City's deadliest residents played by Josh Brolin, Mickey Rourke, and Joseph Gordon - Levitt.

«I have an unquenchable bloodlust»: Robbie next produces and stars as femme fatale Annie in Vaughn Stein's neo-noir thriller Terminal, which hits US theaters May 11

Femme fatale: In the first scene, the blonde beauty debuted a chic black bob as she violently interrogated a man

Reno (Hotel Rwanda, Rollerball) is ingratiating as Clouseau's faithful partner, Ponton, and Beyonce Knowles (The Fighting Temptations, Goldmember) is radiant as the femme fatale, Xania.

The film will reunited director Sam Mendes with Skyfall stars Daniel Craig (James Bond), Ralph Fiennes (M), Ben Whishaw (Q) and Naomie Harris (Moneypenny), while Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy) is reportedly set to play the villain's henchman, and Lea Seydoux (Blue Is the Warmest Color) is also attached as a «femme fatale».

The Daily Mail reports that Parisian actress Léa Seydoux will join the film as a «femme fatale.»

The movie is set up as the kind of tart, battle - of - the - sexes picture that reached its pinnacle in the 1930s and 1940s, but Zeta - Jones's character, Marylin, remains remote and inscrutable throughout the film, a femme fatale who's wandered into another genre altogether.

As they said in the heyday of»40s noir when a real femme fatale walked by, hubba hubba.

Most of the noir detective story archetypes are here — the tough shamus (Bob Hoskins as Eddie Valiant), the murder suspect (Charles Fleischer as long - eared fugitive Roger Rabbit), the femme fatale (Kathleen Turner as cartoon bombshell Jessica Rabbit), the suspicious boss (Stubby Kaye as studio head Marvin Acme) and the formidable lawman (Christopher Lloyd as Judge Doom).

An alien disguised as a buxom, red lipstick wearing femme - fatale drives around Glasgow in a white van, picking up unsuspecting men and luring them back to her lair, where they meet a sticky end.

You can also add MODERN FAMILY actress Sofia Vergara, who will star as Madame Desdemona, the femme fatale with intelligence on Machete's new target.

; Scarlett Johansson plays a femme fatale with a hefty Brooklyn accent, a string of broken mobster marriages and a knack for swimming; and Frances McDormand's blink - and - you'll - miss - it turn as a chain - smoking film editor is equal parts hilarious and harrowing.

Fisher will reportedly have a key supporting role, «possibly as a femme fatale or other comely vixen,» to which nobody on the planet likely objects.

Fisher will reportedly have a key supporting role, «possibly as a femme fatale or other comely...

The latter two particularly shine, he as the villain and she as a lethal super-agent femme fatale who may be friend, foe or some combination of both.

The Last Seduction — Linda Fiorentino stars as a very femme and very fatale femme fatale in John Dahl's top notch neo-noir.

Her tour de force seduction of Doc, mostly performed while naked, uncorking a slow drip of role - playing, self - revilement, vulnerability, and desperate control that's indistinguishable from nihilistic abandon, expresses more about sex as a weapon and a survival strategy than a thousand footnoted treatises on the femme fatale in film noir.

There are many unsubtle references to nuclear bombs and holocaust — these are the elements the director objects to — and we're supposed to see Nicola as an epic femme fatale, the human equivalent of a nuclear blast.

The one and only Bette Davis as a treacherous, murderous and unrepentant (natch) femme fatale.

From Georges Bizet's great, tuneful, massively popular opera, based on Prosper Merimee's novel about a lusty cigarette girl and the soldier who is obsessed with her, unwisely: A compelling noir musical, with an African - American cast (headed by Dorothy Dandridge as femme fatale Carmen and Harry Belafonte as soldier Joe), lyrics and libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II, and direction by Otto Preminger.

Pearce easily inhabits the playboy scoundrel Monty and Wood sizzles as the junior miss femme fatale.

The Cat o» Nine Tails does suffer, however, from extremely weak supporting performances (particularly Catherine Spaak as the requisite bare - breasted fatale) and a script that relies too heavily on extended monologues, which inspire a stultifying awkwardness in their speakers.

Created by director Jim Mickle and his frequent co-writer Nick Damici — their most recent big - screen collaboration, the 2014 «Cold in July,» also adapted a Lansdale novel — the series, which debuts Wednesday, stars James Purefoy and Michael Kenneth Williams as the eponymous, down - and - out duo, with Christina Hendricks a sort of down - home femme fatale in blue jeans.

I wonder whether Kim Min - hee would come across as quite so mercurial and troubling here if we hadn't previously seen her as the protean, infinitely deceptive ingénue fatale in Park Chan - wook's The Handmaiden.

The third story, a prelude to the first film, is the centerpiece as it involves «a dame to kill for» in the form of femme fatale Ava Lord (Eva Green).

What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme fatale and her young lover quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner being the person Gloria turns to for comfort.

But Annette Bening is wholly mesmerising as Gloria Grahame, Oscar - winning femme fatale turned jobbing actress in late»70s England.

If this is indeed a chamber piece, Ava's a femme fatale, as beguiling and innocent as some of her best human counterparts, but with a disconcerting twist.

Skyfall also stars some of the best in British acting including Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris and Ben Whishaw as gadget master Q.Javier Bardem pops us as the Bond baddie, while French beauty Berenice Marlohe plays mysterious femme fatale Severin.

Green does an excellent turn as the powerful, alluring femme fatale.

She does however have a copy of the script, acquired mysteriously since Thomas insists it was not given out to anyone, and by some strange coincidence the same name — Vanda — as the femme fatale of Thomas's play.

This plot sounds similar to another noir, Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past (1947), also featuring Robert Mitchum as a down on his luck P.I. lured down to Mexico on the trail of Jane Greer's femme fatale, does it not?

Equally inevitably, there is a woman involved (Kim Basinger as the aging femme fatale who loved one but had a child with the other.)

Jennifer Aniston is miscast as the semi-femme fatale.

Summary: Salma Hayek takes no prisoners in this action packed thriller as a femme fatale unleashing the ultimate vengeance against a sadistic mob boss and his army of assassins.