Sentences with phrase «for film noir»

Nicholas» love for telling stories is inspired by his love for film noir, westerns, superhero movies, classic films, and wuxia.

It's a relatively fleeting experience, clocking in at about 2 - 3 hours, though fans of oldschool PC point - and - click games will love it for its film noir presentation and punchy dialogue.

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It's another feast for film noir buffs.

It's a relatively fleeting experience, clocking in at about 2 - 3 hours, though fans of oldschool PC point - and - click games will love it for its film noir presentation and punchy dialogue.

For a film noir, Scott's widescreen compositions are usually quite colorful; the ultra-modern posh homes and hotels in which the counselor lives and works are contrasted with the dusty, brutal desert to further illustrate the idea that these wealthy neophytes believe they can remain above the violent fray.

Dorothy B. Hughes was one of the great crime fiction writers; with an eclectic career that allowed her the time to pen some of the strongest material for film noir adaptations while also writing serious film criticism.

Akira Kurosawa wasn't known for film noir or crime thrillers, but he did do a genre drive - by back in 1963.

For an anthology show as extreme as this — thanks to awesome lightning techniques usually reserved for film noir flicks and solid scripts — it became necessary to up the action and tighten - up the science.

Two examples that come to mind — Stephen Frears's 1990 The Grifters and James Foley's 1990 After Dark, My Sweet — have in common that they're too - faithful adaptations of the books they're based on, both of them novels by Jim Thompson, one of the great sources for film noir.

Not exact matches

Blade Runner: 2049 may be a great experience for film buffs, noir fans and sci - fi aficionados, but it's a humorless jaunt into a bleak future.

The retro - fit sateen Preen dress chooses for the Giffoni Film Festival in Giffoni Vana Piani, Italy, feels pretty film noir, especially when paired with side - swept bangs.

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.

Despite its distracting overuse of Dutch angle shots, this is a classic film noir crafted beautifully by Reed and Graham Greene (who worked on it by writing his excellent novella), with a fascinating villain, a fabulous post-war Vienna as its location and a perfect choice for a score.

In Henry Hathaway's Technicolor film noir, Niagara Falls serves as an apt metaphor for the destructive power of out - of - control carnal and murderous obsessions.

Based, like its 2005 predecessor, on Miller's graphic novels, stylized noir thriller A Dame to Kill For is divided into four chapters, two of them original stories unique to the film; the result is both a prequel and a sequel to Sin City.

This film noir from director Billy Wilder tells the tale of a former big shot reporter, Chuck Tatum (Kirk Douglas), heading to Albuquerque for one last chance in the journalism game.

Wilder trades Cain's sun - rot imagery for conventional film noir stylings, but the atmosphere of sexual entrapment survives.

Her first American film was WILLOW for George Lucas and directed by Ron Howard, followed by the noir film KILL ME AGAIN for John Dahl, NAVY SEALS with Charlie Sheen, SHATTERED with Tom Berenger, THE GUILTY with Bill Pullman, THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO LITTLE with Bill Murray, and A TEXAS FUNERAL with Martin Sheen.

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

This film noir from director Billy Wilder tells the tale of a former big shot reporter, Chuck Tatum (Kirk Douglas), heading to Albuquerque for one last chance in the

Raymond Chandler wrote the screenplay for this moody, hard - boiled film noir.

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.

In this modern era, the Coen Brothers are often credited as the life support system for classic noir, but the Coens appear to have serious competition in the form of Australian filmmaker and stuntman Nash Edgerton, whose feature debut, The Square, is a brilliantly twisty, gritty contemporary film noir.

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.

It's easy to see why the dark and shadowy world of film noir remains an attractive avenue for filmmaking.

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.

Guillermo del Toro's fairy tale noir «The Shape of Water» tied with Greta Gerwig's coming - of - age directorial debut «Lady Bird» for best film of the festival.

Dark Passage (Blu - ray) Release date: May 24 Details: 1947, Warner Archive Collection Rated: Not rated The lowdown: Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall star in this film noir thriller about an escaped convict framed for murder and the woman who believes in his innocence.

Stay tuned for more on The House That Jack Built, plus one of my most anticipated films of the festival: It Follows director David Robert Mitchell's reportedly strange L.A. noir, Under The Silver Lake.

But for such a heady draught of melodrama, From the Terrace also features a screenplay with all the immediate, acerbic bite of a hard - boiled film noir.

That late - noir miasma lives on indelibly in Scorsese's masterpiece, though for all its actuality it acquired a mythic aura in a way that other searing films depicting contemporary necropoli have not, among them Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa (1986, London), Mike Leigh's Naked (1993, London), Wim Wenders's Land of Plenty (2004, Los Angeles) and Andrea Arnold's Red Road (2006, Glasgow).

One is for the people who love rainy film noir, the other is for fans of hardcore platformers, the third one feels like a summer blockbuster.

Features commentary by film noir historian Alan K. Rode, who hosts the track and provides most of the production comments, and critic / noir maven (and fellow MSN writer) Kim Morgan, who chimes in for color commentary (and an obsessive appreciation of the pickle that J. Carrol Naish chomps in an early scene; Kim, sometimes a pickle is just a pickle) plus a gallery of stills and advertising art.

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.

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.

Running for one week only, this is a must - see whether you are a film buff, a fan of noir, or just a fan of great cinema.

We focus quite a bit on the noir aspect, how they were going for a specific aesthetic that shows their film heritage.

Hall's bleak vision, his gift for working with darkness and rain, rivals classic film noir of the 1940s and»50s in its visual mastery.

Otto Preminger's Where The Sidewalk Ends (Twilight Time, Blu - ray) reunites the stars from his breakthrough film Laura (1944), the most elegant of early film noirs, for a more streetwise cop drama with a bare - knuckle attitude.

THE MAN WHO WAS N'T THERE A faithful resurrection of the film noir genre, The Coen Brothers» The Man Who Wasn't There is a shoo - in for Roger Deakins's fifth Oscar nomination as best cinematographer.

Adapted from Frank Bill's 2013 noir novel of the same name, the film follows a man hard up for cash and determined to support his family competes in the Donnybrook, a legendary, bare - knuckle brawl where a $ 100,000 prize goes to the last man standing.

The film garnered rave reviews for its layered psychodrama within a noir genre piece, as well as its complex, interwoven metaphors involving survivor trauma, denial in the face of unspeakable horror, and the instability of love.

Part graphic novel, part Western, part David Lynch, with some film noir thrown in for good measure, it brings together a plethora of visual references to create something that's much greater than the sum of its parts — and its parts, for the record, are indelibly memorable.

Fritz Lang's «Scarlet Street» (Kino) is one of his greatest films, a beautifully tawdry noir melodrama of sour lives and curdled fantasies, with Edward G. Robinson as a hen - pecked husband who becomes obsessed with scheming, shallow streetwalker Joan Bennett, and Dan Duryea as a vicious pimp who plots to take Robinson for everything he has.

He is the title character of The Man Who Wasn't There is the Joel and Ethan Coen's homage to film noir, and garnered them a shared best director award with David Lynch (for Mulholland Falls) at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.

Trained as an engineer and apprenticed to film noir great Maurice Tourneur for seven years, Brown learned his craft in the silent era and brought those visual skills to Universal and MGM, where he became known, along with the far more impressive George Cukor, as a woman's director.

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