Sentences with phrase «film noir series»

So, it's that time when Hollywood gets all dolled up and congratulates itself for the films produced in the previous year, so I thought the best of film noir series should have something to do with the Oscars.

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

Graduate students in the department also create other outreach videos including, most recently, a film noir series about El Nino's effects on sardines.

Not exact matches

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.

Other Kurosawa films with strong noir elements, both playing in the Mifune series, are the multiple - viewpoint period murder mystery masterpiece «Rashomon» (1950) and his great dark samurai classic «Yojimbo» (1961).

Meanwhile, the film is based on the first Mickey Haller novel by ace crime novelist Michael Connelly, who literally reinvented the L.A. noir novel with his realistic procedural series starring iconoclastic police detective Harry Bosch and now his Lincoln Lawyer series featuring attorney - at - law Michael «Mick» Haller.

Despite these triumphs, Leonard's reputation mainly rests on the series of six musical films he made with the singing team of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy; Leonard directed all but two of their features, including Maytime (1937), long established as the uncontested favorite of the cycle.In Leonard's late career, the properties he handled were somewhat less auspicious, though there is a surprise in the hard - boiled melodrama The Bribe (1949), a respected film noir that is the only film of its kind in Leonard's canon of 161 known titles.

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.

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.

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.

I wasn't familiar with the TV series (created by Dan Curtis, it starred Jonathan Frid as Barnabas and film - noir great Joan Bennett as Elizabeth), but one of its strengths was fusing low - key campiness and spooky - goth atmosphere.

It features dark, almost film noir - style lighting and bullet - time effects reminiscent of the Max Payne series.

The 69 - year - old director also gets to indulge his love of classic noir films, devoting a large chunk of the series to scripted reenactments and other supposed events, starring actor Peter Sarsgaard as Olson.

The final film in the noir series was «Next Time, I'll Aim For the Heart,» a tense and haunting story, based on the real - life Oise Killer, a cold - blooded psycho on the loose in 1978 Paris, flawlessly portrayed by Guillaume Canet.

COLCOA will celebrate the 10th anniversary of its Film Noir Series with Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin's new film «The Connection,» co-written and directed by Cédric Jimenez.

Other directors include George B. Seitz (who directed most of the Andy Hardy films), Felix Feist (of «The Devil Thumbs a Ride» fame), Harold S. Bucquet (he went on to direct the «Dr. Kindare» series), Joseph H. Newman, and Roy Rowland, and future film noir screenwriter John C. Higgins apprenticed on half a dozen scripts.

This weekend, the Gene Siskel Film Center, in Chicago, Illinois, will screen Carol Reed's 1947 film Odd Man Out as part of its Brit Noir series.

Williamson previously starred in Sparks (2013), playing the titular superhero in a film noir, live - action translation of the comic - book series.

I'd gone there to record a series of voice - overs for one of Criterion's high - end DVD reissues, a «lost» 1950s film noir called The City Is a Maze.

It's a chance for me to promote my mystery series (that have a hint of film noir in them) and horror books, but it's also a chance to get to know great indie authors as well.

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.

Alluding to film noir, the prints in Parkina's With a Stranger in the State Room series possess an enigmatic quality, inviting the viewer to decode her juxtapositions.

This series of work involve with film noir and its interaction with the city space.

Bee, a painter, editor, and book artist, has recently worked on a series of oil paintings depicting colorized black - and - white film stills from noir films, such as Pickpocket (1959), Criss Cross (1949) and Trouble Ahead (1935).

From her most famous Untitled Film Stills (1977 - 1980), which portray female figures from the 1950s and 1960s to Women and Society Pictures series from 2004 and 2008 respectively, she has addressed important issues by involving herself in her own projects, wearing costumes and make - up within directed scenarios of fictitious foreign and films noir.

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.

Her most famous series is arguably «Complete Untitled Film Stills,» a 69 - photo series in which Sherman appears as B - movie, foreign film, and film noir - style actresses.

The exhibition will include Levinthal's series of photographs of toy cowboys and soldiers created at Yale, on view for the first time since his thesis exhibition, along with photographs from his well - known Modern Romance series in which he used isolated tiny doll figurines to create melodramatic mises - en - scene reminiscent of Edward Hopper paintings and film noir.

They are somehow reminiscent of film noir aesthetic and the first series were shot in the mid-1990s, but the project was resumed and completed in 2002.

The exhibition will include Levinthal's series of photographs of toy cowboys and soldiers created at Yale, on view for the first time since his thesis exhibition, along with photographs from his well - known Modern Romance series in which he used isolated tiny doll figurines to create melodramatic mises - en - scéne reminiscent of Edward Hopper paintings and film noir.

Keen's watercolor drawing series from the 1970s accompanying the film features fragmented film - noir inspired narrative told through a combination of words and images; the works are significant expressions of the artist's complex and idiosyncratic creative philosophy.