Sentences with phrase «film noir roots»

There are many remarkable things about THE DROP, but the foremost is the way in which it so perfectly evokes its film noir roots.

Director John Dahl, who co-wrote the script with his brother Rick, taps 1940s film noir roots with their exploration of shifting identities, appearance vs. reality and the range of motivations that drive people to create their own moral codes.

CBR: One of the things that I really enjoyed about this film is how true to its film noir roots it was.

Speaking of dark characters, pound for pound many of the most entertaining films in the festival are the ones with film noir roots.

Not exact matches

Suggesting a period piece version of a film noir saga as envisioned by Stanley Kubrick, this twisted feminist drama is rooted in contentious racial - and gender - warfare issues, employing a meticulous formalism to recount its cutthroat story about Katherine's at - any - cost attempts to attain liberation.

It was the age of film noir and psychological realism, but also a time when the suburban placidity for which the»50s is remembered took root.

Originally aired in 1986, and featuring Michael Gambon in a tour - de-force performance as psoriasis - deformed writer Philip E. Marlow, The Singing Detective fused three narratives: a present - day drama about a psychiatrist trying to get the root of Marlow's childhood trauma, flashbacks to the writer's past, and a Raymond Chandler - eseque 1940s film noir fantasy.