With this selection, the viewer is offered an opportunity to confront these directions which range from the painterly, as seen in Bill Henson's haunting portraits, to the Craigie Horsefield's
film noir style imagery, and to the conceptual work of sculptor / photographer Dan Graham.
The tone of 1940s Los Angeles is wonderfully recaptured in
the film noir style with superb attention to detail, both visually and audibly.
To that end, the first hour was written and shot in
a film noir style.
Is this an intriguing
film noir style of mobster flicks, or should it be wearing... Read On
The characters are entangled in unexpected ways, and the twists and turns throughout the game kept me guessing until the very end, when, in true
film noir style, the grand finale was revealed.
But as required by changing studio personnel and dictates, Lang adapted to the harsher
film noir style of the 1940s.
Is this an intriguing
film noir style of mobster flicks, or should it be wearing concrete shoes and swimmin» with the fishes?
The film noir style makes this a classic detective story that'll certainly stand the test of time.
It has a great
film noir style atmosphere and music that compliments that atmosphere well.
Rian Johnson's first feature was the well received, low - budget indie titled «Brick» (2005), which told a high - school story in
a film noir style, narrated by Gordon - Levitt.
A smart, sharp and outragiously weird crime - thriller that «s loaded with a great sense of classic
film noir style, ideas and star - power.
He brought a dark and gritty
film noir style to his characters and he attempts to do the same with THE SPIRIT.
Personal Touches We found vintage
film noir style photographs online to fit the titles of our guests tables.
Forgot to mention that I love
these film noir style photos!
Wilder trades Cain's sun - rot imagery for conventional
film noir stylings, but the atmosphere of sexual entrapment survives.
Not exact matches
In order to show the
film noir themes and works of reference Hitchcock strong and rich women attractive image, the photographer Mikael Jansson Nicole Kidman will portray a sexy protagonist, embodies the brand has always been confident ornate
style.
Perched broodingly on a satin strewn bed, clutching the new CATHERINE bag in luxurious black softbox leather and leopard print pony, Zimmerman channels French
film noir heroines, wearing vixen - like FLORA a buttery soft suede, black open - toe lattice -
style boot.
Keep it cool with this flirty fedora for the martini - sipping, low - pro,
film noir - loving hipster — male or female, young or old this hat has serious
style.
Rockstar Games and Team Bondi are crafting a
film noir -
style detective thriller for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
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.
I can't get enough of the
film noir era and its
style, so «Dead Men» has enticed me to see many of the classic
films that contributed clips here.
Kiss Me Deadly by Robert Weston Review looking at the
film's archetypal
noir style and influence.
It «s true that a Ridley Scott image is as immediately identifiable as, say, a western landscape as shot by John Ford or a
film noir street as
filmed by Anthony Mann, but the difference is that Scott «s
style is completely detachable - and indeed, completely detached - from its subject.
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.
The Big Heat (Twilight Time) is one of the masterpieces of
film noir, a
film of subdued
style, underplayed brutality, and a well of rage boiling under a surface of calm corruption.
French cinema and filmmakers are famed for innovating
styles like avant garde,
film noir, art nouveau, and cinéma vérité.
Its
film -
noir style makes the detective mystery very compelling as well.
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.
And fittingly, since the fest's theme was
style, there were
film noir screenings as well as events devoted to both
noir and fashion.
The one certainty is that WWII served as a catalyst for the organic evolution of the genre's texture, and that
noir remains to this day one of the most popular
film styles for revision, emulation, and in the case of The Man Who Wasn't There, resurrection.
A high -
style, high - octane
film noir couple — cool Robert Mitchum and hot Linda Darnell — are lovers on the run to Mexico, with the scariest of hit men, Jack Palance, on their trail.
The play of light, dark and shadows is reminiscent of
film noir classics such as Key Largo and Asphalt Jungle that Spielberg examined carefully in order to choose the
style he wanted to employ.
These
films are spiritual cousins in so many ways; all postmodern, smoggy,
noir and demonstrative
style as substance.
At the 2008 Sundance
Film Festival, Yari
Film Group premiered Brett Simon «s Assassination of a High School President, a
film noir mystery set inside the world of a John Hughes -
style High School comedy.
Billy Wilder, for example, was originally dismissed by Sarris as a director without a personal
style, and, indeed, Wilder tackled an astonishing range of material, from romantic comedies to
film noir («Double Indemnity»), Hollywood tragedy («Sunset Boulevard»), journalistic expose («Ace in the Hole») and classic farce («Some Like It Hot»).
It features dark, almost
film noir -
style lighting and bullet - time effects reminiscent of the Max Payne series.
T - Men — This fairly early Anthony Mann
film is more of a police procedural, than a
noir, as it tells the story of the Treasury Department's anti-counterfeiting detectives in a pseudo-documentary
style.
12:00 M — TCM — The Big Heat Director Fritz Lang came out of the German Expressionist movement of the 1920s, so it's not surprising that he ended up making some of the better
noir films, given
film noir's borrowing of Expressionist
style.
7:30 am — TCM — The Big Heat Director Fritz Lang came out of the German Expressionist movement of the 1920s, so it's not surprising that he ended up making some of the better
noir films, given
film noir's borrowing of Expressionist
style.
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..
Directed by Paul McGuigan (in a decisive change of pace after «Victor Frankenstein»), the
film offers a «My Week With Marilyn» -
style gloss on the life of the great, oft - neglected stage and screen actress Gloria Grahame (Bening), who won an Academy Award for «The Bad and the Beautiful» and who is perhaps best remembered now for her heartbreaking performance opposite Humphrey Bogart in Nicholas Ray's 1950
noir masterpiece, «In a Lonely Place.»
Here is one of the most
noir of all Bergman's
films (along with «Hour of the Wolf» and «The Serpent's Egg»): a German Expressionist -
style nightmare of a
film about life at a circus, in three rings of adultery, jealousy and torment.
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. («Rosebud?
The
film has some of the greatest black and white images ever
filmed, dramatic lighting and sharp shadows, everything you think of as the
noir style, only instead of an urban crime drama, it's used to powerful effect to create a nightmare of a fairy tale.
6:15 pm — TCM — The Big Heat Director Fritz Lang came out of the German Expressionist movement of the 1920s, so it's not surprising that he ended up making some of the better
noir films, given
film noir's borrowing of Expressionist
style.
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.
Fleischer leads us into this perverse
noir world, but it only dallies with its
noir atmosphere and instead turns into a straight mystery story — effectively
filmed in a semi-documentary
style that emphasizes police procedures over character studies or creating suspense over suspects.
A box set of early Fassbinder
films sees him working through pastiches of
film noir and melodrama as he fins his way to his distinctive themes and
style.
An underrated dark comic masterpiece, this
film has strong
noir touches, themes and
style.