Sentences with phrase «fiction noir film»

Not exact matches

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.

Somber piano and unexpected saxophone solos feel like this is not science fiction, but a film noir.

a visually striking, but emotionally flat mash - up of romantic drama, film noir, and science fiction that sounds much more interesting than it turns out to be

The Oscar - winning screenplay is actually based on several titles in James Ellroy's series of chronological thriller novels (including the title volume, The Big Nowhere, and White Jazz)-- a compelling blend of L.A. history and pulp fiction that has earned it comparisons to the greatest of all Technicolor noir films, Chinatown.

Social oppression and philosophical uncertainty define the noir atmosphere of Spielberg's least overtly religious science - fiction film.

Hirsch told the audience that film noir can absolutely be in color, describing «Niagara» both as a «minor masterpiece» and a «pulp - fiction paperback come to life.»

The film noir put out inky tendrils in many existent genres, forever altering even the Western (Anthony Mann, perhaps the most gifted director associated with the new vision, the new mode, also began his remarkable series of James Stewart Westerns in this era: Winchester» 73, The Naked Spur, etc.); and certainly its temperamental affinities to the science - fiction film, a prime manifestation of the McCarthy era, are worth a nod.

At least, the historical value excuses most of the shortcomings, this hailing from the end of film noir's height, revealing much on public tastes of the time and even touching upon the Cold War paranoia for which the decade and its parabolic science fiction are recalled.

Reservoir Dogs, True Romance and Pulp Fiction (the first two I watched back to back one weekend afternoon, after my friends learned I'd never seen a Tarantino film; I had heard he'd won the Palme d'Or, but didn't know he'd made any other movies) demanded we familiarize ourselves with their influences: film noir, Howard Hawks, Jean - Luc Godard (one of our favorite pass - times was driving around to all the video stores in town looking for a copy of Breathless.

Dorothy B. Hughes was one of the great crime fiction writers; with an eclectic career that allowed her the time to pen some of the strongest material for film noir adaptations while also writing serious film criticism.

A unique blend of film noir, horror, and science fiction, Alex Proyas» underrated film about a man accused of murder in a mysterious city where the sun never seems to shine is beloved by those who've seen it, which isn't as many people as it should be.

The familiar «noir,» (defined as a genre of crime film or fiction characterized by cynicism, fatalism and moral ambiguity) is made to feel new here - and it does - thanks to its anchor lead actor, Krisztián Kolovratnik.

A line is easily drawn through its hardboiled antecedents, from the pulp fiction of Chandler, Cain and Hammett, through the great film noir.

This subtle blend of fact and fiction is part and parcel of Larrain and screenwriter Guillermo Calderón's playful approach to the material, which shifts in and out of various genres, including chase thriller, film noir, road movie and even western.

While it's true that Wise explored a variety of genres including horror, science fiction, noir, westerns, musicals and war dramas, his best films frequently share a gloomy nihilistic worldview and he possessed the extraordinary ability to elicit career - defining performances from many of the actors he worked with.

Here at Fiction Factory we just finished editing on RUNNING IN THE DARK, in which film scholar Glenn Erickson tells the fascinating story behind Jules Dassin's noir masterpiece NIGHT AND THE CITY (1950), starring Richard Widmark as an American low - life racketeer literally running out of luck in London.

Dorothy B. Hughes was one of the great crime fiction writers; with an eclectic career that allowed her the time to pen some of the strongest material for film noir adaptations while also writing serious -LSB-...]

So, while the movie The Maltese Falcon is considered film noir, the book from which it's derived is hard - boiled fiction and not literary noir based on the characteristics described above.

Fans of noir film and fiction will find a lot to enjoy in this loving genre tribute, and those already familiar with Moore's books will simply be in love.»

Backbone combines the visual and social contrasts of film noir with anthropomorphic animals, retro - futuristic technologies, and dystopian fiction.

Charles Huntley Nelson's installation was a preview of his ambitious work - in - progress, a re-imagining of Alphaville, the 1965 fiction / noir / gangster film by Jean - Luc Godard and a meditation on human creativity, camaraderie, and technology.

The canvases evoke the covers of pulp fiction novels, B - movie posters, and scenes from gangster films or film noir.

Noor Afshan Mirza and Brad Butler's fiction film installation weaves together conspiracy, gangster, noir, politics, crash theory, fantasy...

The filmmaker has specialized in reinventing the familiar, with his films Brick, Brothers Bloom, and Looper breathing new life into film noir, madcap capers, and dystopian time - travel science fiction.