Sentences with phrase «film noir feeling»

The evocation of that old film noir feeling is hugely effective here: Dad telling his freshly - bribed son «You can't buy dignity,» the fantastic slow zoom on a love scene reflected in a two - way mirror, even the beguiling torch singer.

His use of low - key lighting and sculptural smoke further complicate historical periodization, infusing the work with a 1940s film noir feel.

Not exact matches

As titillating as it might be to read Andreessen's text messages to Zuckerberg, however — in which the former quotes from a 1950's film noir with Burt Lancaster, remarking «The cat's in the bag and the bag's in the river» — the whole thing feels like a bit of a sideshow.

The retro - fit sateen Preen dress chooses for the Giffoni Film Festival in Giffoni Vana Piani, Italy, feels pretty film noir, especially when paired with side - swept bangs.

The game has a film noir sort of feel very reminiscent of Grim Fandango.

This film however, may have had the modern noir feeling, but actually had the old noir story line AKA slow, strange, and confusing.

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

A lot funnier than you remember it, Carol Reed's immortal 1949 film noir seems to exist in the space between two worlds: an earlier time when thrillers were mostly serious affairs, and a future one, when such supremely witty entertainments felt passé.

The music throughout the film has the air of a classic noir film, which is one of the elements that works to subtly bring the two genres together without feeling forced.

One is for the people who love rainy film noir, the other is for fans of hardcore platformers, the third one feels like a summer blockbuster.

This film feels kind of like what you'd expect from a collision between George Clooney and the Coen brothers: a comical noir thriller with a hefty dose of social commentary.

Filmed on 35 mm and left in its grittiest state — the colors have a relatively untreated feel, like a»70s Dirty Harry film — Too Late is an L.A. noir shot in five continuous take scenes.

Dahl's direction is superb, melding a classic film noir tone with a variety of dark red colors and hues — giving The Last Seduction an unsettled feeling of urgency not common to the noir genre.

If the film feels Old Hollywood in that the stars are pretty, the heroes are tough, and the sex is good but the brutality is better, then excavate the ways that this period in our history dissolves into period noir: shells of men entrusted with the rebuilding of our society, with dangerous women and effete men (abortion rights and gay marriage vs. the evacuation of civil rights and ground wars in the Middle East) embodying the greater peril.

With its thumping music and chic shots of the city after dark, the film looks and feels the way a modern L.A. noir should.

The film is categorized under Warner's Film Noir Archive Collection, but I really don't feel that this film really lands in that category.

It's exciting, well made, and feels original — even if it takes it cues from iconic genres like the western and film noir.

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.

There's neither the overheated lyricism of Raging Bull nor the pulp grittiness of a noir like The Set - Up; everything in Kuosmanen's film feels earthy and grounded, and, unlike Bill Conti's work in Rocky, Kuosmanen forgoes a non-diegetic music score, thereby denying us any easy emotional signposts.

Rotten: Enough of the ingredients for a sultry downscale noir are in place in Coastlines, that once the film turns perversely goody - good, it leaves you feeling vaguely disgruntled.

Crossfire Edward Dmytryk, USA, 1947, 35 mm, 86m This adaptation of writer / director - to - be Richard Brooks's novel The Brick Foxhole, about a group of vets, led by Robert Mitchum's Sergeant Keeley, searching postwar Washington for their amnesiac friend (George Cooper) so they can clear him of a murder charge, embodies the essence of what has come to be known as «film noir» — moody, troubled characters; nocturnal action; chiaroscuro cinematography; low - key acting spiced with bits of bravura eccentricity; and a plot so crazy that it feels like a nightmare.

Adding to the noir feel of the film is Roger Deakins» black - and - white cinematography.

That film is a Los Angeles - based, neo-noir homage to pulp - y detective mystery - thrillers, while The Nice Guys feels more like an L.A. - based homage to other acclaimed neo-noir detective films that have come out since the heyday of the film noir era, 1974's Chinatown and 1997's L.A. Confidential (it's surely not a coincidence to see Russell Crowe and Kim Basinger (Grudge Match) reunite here).

OLDBOY certainly deals with the theme of vengeance, but this is a much more entertaining film as it masquerades as a mystery film noir, and lures us into feeling gratification at protagonist Oh Dae Su's (Choi) vengeance.

If it looks film noir it's just because I was playing with the lighting and what felt right at that moment.

Part of me wishes that «I Don't Feel At Home in This World Anymore,» a shocking, comic noir thriller from writer - director Macon Blair, were available in theaters; now having seen the film and responding vocally to its various jolts and jokes alone (so very alone) in an empty room, I can only imagine how it would have played with a theatrical audience.

It gave a film - noir feel that complimented the look of the film but regardless of the cut you prefer, the film is still a masterpiece.

Part film noir, part Mexican folklore, with a heavy dash of LucasArts wit thrown in for good measure, Grim Fandango's tale of intrigue set in the seedy underbelly of the Land of the Dead feels just as fresh now as it did over 15 years ago.

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.

Now gamers can play in «Noir Mode», giving the game that gritty feel of a noir fNoir Mode», giving the game that gritty feel of a noir fnoir film.

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

From the one game directly based on a movie, The Warriors, to classic Western movies which inspired the look and feel of Red Dead Redemption, the noir - style movies L.A. Noire payed homage too, and the movies - upon - movies which have been parodied or reinvisioned when recreate famous locations and time periods in the Grand Theft Auto series, films have always played a huge part in Rockstar's development cycle.

Technicolor or film noir in feel, the glossy hyper - real images have brought him notoriety in the realms he critiques - he has done product commissions for MAC Cosmetics, Montblanc, and Jimmy Choo.

In recalling early Renaissance masters, still life, anatomical studies or film noirs images, Auburtin produces objects and paintings that toy with reversible feelings like seduction and repulsion, training and perfection, luxury and death, beauty and deformity, etc... Graduated from ENSA Nancy (Fine Arts Academy of Nancy).