Sentences with phrase «film noir look»

The game takes place in a 1920's background, and has a film noir look to it.

The black and white photography is strong, dappled lights and shadows giving it a very film noir look.

Director Gregory Hoblit and cinematographer Kramer Morgenthau give the film a noir look, using lights and shadows to great affect in the color palette.

The colors are fine and the films noir look is never overly dark.

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It would also not look out of place in a black and white film noir.

The writing is pretty darn lacking, the character models look awful and the tone tries to compel the noir film style, failing terribly to the point that seems a farce.

I loved the look of the film and it really has a very noir style about it which the original doesn't.

If you respond to film noir, if you like dark streets and women with scarlet lips and big fast cars with running boards, the look of this movie will work some kind of magic.

From here on in it becomes far more satisfying as Cagney comes into his own as his trademark no - nonsense tough guy and some atmospheric location based camera work nicely combines wartime bravado with some visuals and themes that would not look out of place in a film noir.

As a result, Siren City provides an insightful look into some of the more neglected areas of film noir study, while furthering larger discussions about film sound and film music as a whole.

Kiss Me Deadly by Robert Weston Review looking at the film's archetypal noir style and influence.

The student's pesky mother also gets involved, in ways which shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who's seen a typical film noir, and the story turns into a rather backward - looking tale of sin and wrongdoing.

Known for its expressionistic lighting and shadows, tight, claustrophobic urban settings, and frequent use of dream sequences and flashbacks, film noir and its dark, ambiguous look at life are routinely discussed from a visual perspective.

I'm a big fan of film noir and the noir aesthetic that permeates a lot of old Hollywood melodramas where men are corrupted by femme fatale characters who look like the platinum blonde that Rachel McAdams plays.

Every inch of the screen is carefully constructed from classic film noir, from the honking horns and Bernard Herrmann-esque strings of the score, to the deliberately artificial - looking back projection, right down to Ben Kingsley's eccentric bow tie.

Grahame was less otherworldly than the goddess Monroe (both women endured plastic surgery to perfect their faces) but she had a feline beauty, sharp - featured and streetwise, the ideal look for many a femme fatale in some of the finest film noir titles ever produced.

I prefer Curtiz's original because it is canonical film noir, in tone, look and story.

What's seldom observed is that films like Taxi Driver and The Godfather don't look the way they do without pioneering pictures like The Wild Bunch first understanding how colour could be used in noir to glorious, nasty effect.4 The Wild Bunch does it well enough that it was threatened with an NC - 17 rating upon its re-release twenty - five years later in 1994.

In the hotel that Colleoni calls home, the furniture is too kitsch and gaudy; the messy marital home of Pinkie looks like a badly put together and unauthentic theatre stage; and the incorporation of bikers doesn't work because Joffe is unable to escape the fact that the source material lends itself to film noir.

The ads make it look like an action / crime thriller, but it's more a suspenseful noir - ish art film with occasional ultra-violent outbursts.

Brothers in arms The most dementedly elegiac thriller you've ever seen, distilling a lifetime's enthusiasm for American and French film noir, with little Chinese about it apart from the soundtrack and the looks of the three beautiful leads.

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.

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.

It doesn't look like a classic film noir — Losey uses light to reveal and lay bare rather than cast webs across the characters — and he saves the shadows for intimacy to show the corruption of emotion and the way desire clouds judgment.

Just as Rian Johnson wrote his script to play out like classic Dashiell Hammett, so too does he direct his film to look like modern noir, featuring many of the same stylish staples that those noir detective films of the 1940s and 1950s were known for.

BRIAN DE PALMA By Gavin Smith Sexed - up and flipped - out, Femme Fatale is film noir taken through the looking glass.

Get a copy of the first book that really takes a look at the director behind so many of Hollywood's most famous films, like Casablanca, the Sea Hawk, King Creole & about 180 more.Then stick around for a Noir double bill of, «The Turning Point» (1952) & the Curtiz directed, «The Scarlet Hour» (1956)

LMD: The Shameless is like a classic film noir and while watching Kim Nam - gil's performance and the way you capture him, he reminded me a little of a young Robert Mitchum, as he looked in Out of the Past.

Andrew Niccol, responsible for cult sci - fi film Gattaca, delivers an undeniably stylish - looking film noir but is hampered by an overworked screenplay and an underpowered Owen.

While Tim Burton's original version of the film boasted a much darker, gothic look at the man behind the mask, his two films contained only a sliver of the darkness that Nolan manages to squeeze into «Begins,» which plays out much more like a film noir crime thriller than your average summer action movie.

But despite the source material and Winterbottom's attempts to ape the look of classic film noir, the final results are closer to a Rob Zombie - style horror film that seeks to shove the audience's face in scenes of abhorrent violence.

Other newly featured stuff to look out for: Marie Antoinette, which solidified Sofia Coppola among my favorite directors, hidden gem of a B - movie film noir The Narrow Margin, incredible modern melodrama Little Children, and D.W. Griffith silent epic Orphans of the Storm.

The look of the film, as shot by cinematographer Ben Seresin, is dismal and gloomy, which indicates that Hughes was aiming for a noir - ish tone, a character study bathed in grey.

If Douglas Sirk had directed a film noir written by Billy Wilder, it might have looked something like HAIL, CAESAR!

In addition to nearly 90 minutes of original content, including deleted scenes and a behind - the - scenes documentary, the Blu - ray ™ will also include Logan Noir, a black and white version of the film that gives the acclaimed story an all - new look.

On Sunday, Dec. 16, makeup artist Julie Hewett, who created Scarlett Johansson's Janet Leigh look in «Hitchcock» and draws from film noir in her product line, is scheduled to give 30 - minute private consultations from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Blushington, a makeup studio at 8591 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 90069.

Classic film noir served as a touchstone for many visual touches, Deckard's world - weary characterization, and the femme fatale look and actions of Rachel (Sean Young), a replicant who draws Deckard's interest, despite his better instincts.

It lacks the vibrancy and precision of the CG animated films I've been looking at lately, and also the grain of the 1950s Stanley Kubrick noir I watched in the past 48 hours.

A motif of black and white baseball flashbacks look like film noir, and are particularly relevant to the Cleveland Indians this year.

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

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.

The focus here is on railroads at night, a visual paradigm that has produced startling combinations of darkness and light photographs that look like film noir stills, marked by sparks, stars and smoke.

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.

city environment, bouncing between skyscrapers, swinging on telephone poles, dodging cars and talking to NPCs who look like they got their fashion tips from 1950s film noir.

Try adjusting the filter strength — for example choose the Noir filter with 30 % strength to get a less saturated, film - like look on a map like Sinai Desert.

Alex Prager for Yancey Richardson dresses for a curious combination of film noir and The Red Shoes before falling from a window, but her despair looks all the more haunting in deep color and slow motion.

Each of the small scale images is a black and white photograph staged and developed, to look like a still from a noir film of the 50s or 60s.