Sentences with phrase «film noir movie»

His latest is Jazz Noir, a fresh spin on crime jazz, film noir movie themes and timeless classics.

There's no such thing as a perfect movie, but in the way that the script was handled, the way it was shot... it's a perfect film noir movie, or it's close to perfect, I should say.»

This book introduces some of Sherman's most important works, from her seminal 1970s series Untitled Film Stills, which references film noir movies by such directors as Alfred Hitchcock and Jacques Tourneur, to her progression into colour photography in the 1980s series Centerfolds.

Not exact matches

A sordid tale that resembles many noir classic films from the forties and fifties, where its protagonists are police partners based on the duality of buddy movies but without the comedy.

Hanson delivers something ever rarer in film culture, not a new film noir but an old - fashioned total movie, somehow of a single piece.

With shadowy, black - and - white production, a slow - burning jazz soundtrack, and a wide ensemble of characters that runs the gamut of crime movie archetypes, Dick Hopper serves as a love letter to film noir, even as it skewers the genre with no mercy.

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.

Though he made a pair of low - budget film noirs, Kubrick made his first professional studio movie with The Killing, a tautly - paced heist thriller centered on Johnny Clay, a veteran criminal (Sterling Hayden) planning one last heist before settling down to marriage.

Another successful Hitchcock noir isn't as good as some of his best work («Rear Window» to name one), but it is still a really skillfully done movie that goes by fast and has one of the more exciting conclusions to a Hitchcock film that I have seen.

Attempts to do for «The Big Sleep» - type detective movie and film - noir genre what «Blair Witch» did for horror films.

As most of you know, this is a send - up or spoof of film noir detective movies interlacing live action with film clips.

This film noir spoof takes footage from the old movies and mixes them with scenes of Steve Martin as a detective.

Call us provincial — David Lynch's psychoerotic noir is one of the essential L.A. movies — but the more significant reason for the film's enduring critical favor may be its deconstruction of the toxic allure of the Dream Factory.

This edition of Now Stream This brings you a highly underrated and very recent Todd Haynes movie, a new Netflix horror flick, a gloriously over-the-top action movie, a cynical noir loaded with snappy dialogue, the first Hannibal Lecter film, a romantic horror movie, a Steven Spielberg adventure, a cringe - inducing social media comedy, and some good old fashioned body horror.

Over recent years, the film noir genre has largely served as a reference point for filmmakers, who dress up their movies with snappy dialogue and / or complex, violent stories but neglect the genre's bleakness.

In a time when it seems that every other movie makes some claim to being a film noir, L.A. Confidential is the real thing — a gritty, sordid tale of sex, scandal, betrayal, and corruption of all sorts (police, political, press — and, of course, very personal) in 1940s Hollywood.

Still, «Leave Her to Heaven» does boast a classic film noir plot and one of the supreme movie femme fatales who's not the person you want standing behind you on a high staircase, with no witnesses.

The Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movies aren't usually thought of as film noir, but the dark shadowed setting of The Scarlet Claw (1944) comes close — and might even be considered along with the great Universal Studios horror films of the «30s and..

To get away from the idea of gritty low - budget Noir or any B - movie sense (and because the spy films from James bond on down were making so much money), Warner and Newman went the big time Hollywood route with an all - star cast for the first Harper film including Lauren Bacall, Shelley Winters, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh, Pamela Tiffin, Robert Wagner, Strother Martin and made it a point it was Hollywood getting gritty on its own big time terms.

When 19 - year - old aspirant drummer Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller) goes to the movies with his Pennington High School writer / teacher father (Paul Reiser) there's Rififi on the hoarding, the 1955 French noir film directed by blacklisted émigré filmmaker Jules Dassin.

Making a gritty film noir - style movie as an animated feature makes for a visually interesting experience; the animation uses striking colors, and the backgrounds are beautifully detailed while the characters are very simply designed, creating a unique contrast.

Long before the Noir period started, sound on film ushered in several great series of detective movie series where the lead was usually a bright crime solver, but the gumshoe, gritty detective was not far behind and Noir kicked in just in time for that kind of investigator as the classical detectives (Charlie Cahn, Mr. Moto, Sherlock Holmes, The Thin Man) were on a roll that even defied studio expectations.

Rating: 5/10 — a man (Lowery) drives across country after the death of his brother and gives a lift to a woman (Lane) who tricks him into being the getaway driver in a bank robbery, a situation that sees him on the run from the police but determined to prove his innocence; a gritty, hard - boiled film noir, They Made Me a Killer adds enough incident to its basic plot to keep viewers entertained from start to finish without really adding anything new or overly impressive to the mix, but it does have a brash performance from Lowery, and Thomas's direction ensures it's another solid effort from Paramount's B - movie unit, Pine - Thomas.

These range from cinematographer Roger Deakins's overt restaging of many iconic shots from the first film, to Dennis Gassner's production design that meticulously matches its grimy neon - noir urban dystopia, to the dashing trench coat worn by this movie's young robot - hunter, K (Ryan Gosling).

The major studio head - scratcher of its year, the ultimate distillation of Michael Mann's brand of clean sheen noir, and the most authentically auteurist film of the aughts, Miami Vice was the movie offspring of a successful and ever - parodied 80s TV series that was nothing like the original.

A film noir series is currently casting a long shadow over the Omaha movie theater Film Streams.

The Book Of Henry is a very bizarre affair, stuck in treacherous waters between kids» movie, terminal illness melodrama and hardboiled film noir.

As well as the murkier corners of classic film noir, Boorman drew inspiration from art photography and the French New Wave, including Jean - Luc Godard's Breathless, which was itself «speaking back» to American crime movies.

«Wondrously accomplished and furiously expressive drama blending the moody rambles of a road movie with the tightly ratcheted criminal tension of a film noir.»

I Wake Up Screaming (Kino Lorber, Blu - ray)(1941), with a swaggering Victor Mature and a demure Betty Grable, is not just one of the great movie titles of classic cinema, it is one of the films that established the distinctive style and attitude of film noir.

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This riveting chronicle proves that Wise, a great favorite of French noir expert and Hollywood film aficionado Jean - Pierre Melville, was an absolute master of crime movies.

, there is much to see at the movies; these films surely will appeal to noir fans.

If you are a fan of the comics and the first movie or love film noir crime dramas, then Sin City: A Dame to Kill For is definitely worth checking out, especially in 3D, but take my advice and watch the original first or you won't be able to appreciate nuances of the second.

This movie is pure tragedy, pure doomed film noir from the very beginning.

That sets the scene for the directorial debut for both actor Edmond O'Brien, who also stars as Detective Lt. Barney Nolan, the violent, angry cop, and producer Howard W. Koch, who apprenticed as an assistant on (among others) the early B - movie film noirs of Anthony Mann.

In this period, he tackled an Oscar - winning drama about alcoholism (The Lost Weekend), two well - regarded film noirs (Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard), a war drama (Stalag 17), two light - hearted rom - coms (Sabrina, Seven Year Itch) a gripping murder - mystery (Witness for the Prosecution) and perhaps the funniest American movie of all time (Some Like It Hot).

After all the movie is too downright weird for mainstream tastes but appeals instead to the type of viewer familiar with film noir conventions, German expressionism in film as well as the art of Edward Hopper.

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The movie is the latest exercise in comic noir by the writer / director Shane Black, and it shares a great many attributes with his terrific 2006 comeback film, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: the two mismatched detectives and their more practical female associate, the convoluted plot that features intersecting crime cases — even the hand maimed in an unfortunate encounter with a closed door.

Your go - to resource for all things noir — film reviews, must - haves for your makeup bag, fabulous fashion finds, advice, horoscopes, spots for swanky dining, red - carpet rumors, movie news and interviews.

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.

(Peurs du Noir) Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: French Animated Feature Explores Everyday Phobias Last year, a French film named Paris, je T'aime proved that 20 directors could successfully collaborate on one movie.

9:00 am — Fox Movie — Nightmare Alley Fox didn't make too many noir films, and this one just barely sneaks in by virtue of... some high contrast lighting here and there?

WHY: Shane Black is to buddy cop films what Raymond Chandler is to hard - boiled crime novels, and his latest movie, the retro detective noir «The Nice Guys,» is arguably his best entry in the genre since redefining the buddy cop formula three decades earlier with «Lethal Weapon.»

Still the greatest movie of all time, it's also a virtual lexicon of film - noir visual and dramatic style, as seminal in its way as «The Maltese Falcon» or «M.» Scripted by Welles and one - time Hearst crony Herman Mankiewicz, photographed by Gregg Toland, with music by Bernard Herrmann and ensemble acting by the Mercury Players: Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, George Coulouris, Ruth Warrick, Paul Stewart, et al..

This is a movie in the true tradition of film noir — which someone who didn't write a dictionary once described as a movie where an ordinary guy indulges the weak side of his character, and hell opens up beneath his feet.

Cain was once a singer, with aspirations to opera, and here, one of his novels became a movie vehicle for Mario Lanza — a superb natural tenor, whose own meteoric career and untimely death might make a good film noir.

«Johnny Handsome» comes out of the film noir atmosphere of the 1940s, out of movies with dark streets and bitter laughter, with characters who live in cold - water flats and treat saloons as their living rooms.

Brick is probably not a movie that will have strong mainstream appeal, but for those that love independent films, the noir classics, old - fashioned detective stories, or just enjoy seeing something they haven't quite seen before, Rian Johnson's experiment will prove to be a success with you.