Sentences with phrase «for noirish»

As certain films can be seen as perfect representatives of their genres (Sleepless in Seattle for romantic comedies, The Maltese Falcon for noirish private detective stories, Airplane!

Deadline reports that Mike Myers is going to do the right thing and team up with Simon Pegg and Margot Robbie — two actors who are in high demand these days — for the noirish Terminal.

Not exact matches

The show, the first original drama series made for Starz, is hardly the most original depiction of Los Angeles, but Crash has a noirish appeal, and ambitions to tell a big story.

Krantz has a penchant for stylization that quickly slides into a velvet - painting cheesiness, which - along with the script's pseudoprofound Philosophy 101 maxims - renders the atmosphere less noirish than ridiculously cartoonish.

Writer - director David Ayer doesn't have the right graphic technique for a comic - book - style jamboree — he's strictly a noirish - pulp guy — and the characters, all of whom are promisingly introduced, fizzle fast.

His inclination towards dimly - lit, noirish landscapes works for him as the film is primarily set in that age, likewise his skills as a jazz pianist work for him in scoring the film.

Director Jean Becker ups the ante for Adjani, who sweats profusely while she dances at the local «Bing Bong» party, ambles throughout a small French town in frilly dresses, and strips nude in this noirish thriller, in such a way that makes local lad Pin - Pon (Alain Souchon) simply lose his shit.

He would return to the era in later films, most notably his hugely successful drama Twenty - Four Eyes (1954), but immediately after Morning for the Osone Family, he dived into escapist fare that better showed off his range, from the poetic romance The Girl I Loved (1946) to the noirish thriller Woman (1948) to the comedy Here's to the Young Lady (1949) to the ghost story Yotsuya kaidan (1949).

Christian Petzold's last film, the masterful Phoenix, drew complex undercurrents of suspicion, psychological unease, and suspense (not to mention one of the greatest endings in contemporary film) out of the noirish story of a disfigured Holocaust survivor who returns to post-war Berlin and is roped into a scheme by the husband who mistakes her for a stranger.

«Mildred Pierce» co-star Ann Blyth and director Curtiz reunite for this tangy, noirish bio-drama of the tragic popular songstress, with Paul Newman as Helen's brash gangster lover.

There was little love for other English language cinema at the festival, including The Paperboy, Lee Daniels's noirish follow - up to Precious, starring an oft nude Nicole Kidman as an unstable woman who has an affair with Zac Efron.

2:00 am (24th)-- TCM — Key Largo Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall team up for the final time on this great noirish melodrama of a group of people, including a wheelchair - bound hotel owner, his recently widowed daughter - in - law (Bacall), a war veteran (Bogart), and a ruthless gangster and his girl, forced to take refuge against a fierce hurricane.

At the film's recent press day in Los Angeles, the 31 - year - old Brit revealed why he's excited to explore new parts, what attracted him to play a bad guy that's a victim, his love of noirish 70's thrillers like «Klute,» «Dirty Harry,» and «The Conversation,» how he worked closely with director Scott Frank to tap into the darkness of his character, how music helped him prepare for his role in «The Guest,» why family is hugely important to him, and how 2014 has been a breakout year that's allowed him to work with a number of his childhood heroes including Liam Neeson, Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler and John Travolta.

More than Shockproof, the 1949 film Fuller cowrote for Douglas Sirk, The Naked Kiss intuits a Sirkian female melodrama — at least a Sirkian female melodrama as recast by Russ Meyer and Rainer Werner Fassbinder into a minimalistic, noirish fairy tale.

Noirish thriller «Broken City,» with Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe, is currently set for next January, but could move into awards season if it has the right stuff, while Paul Greengrass ««Captain Philips,» with Tom Hanks, might try the same if production goes smoothly.

And yet, for me at least, the film manages to be its own thing, to be more than just a noirish, postmodern Super Friends / Justice League for anthropomorphic animal cartoon characters.

6:15 pm — TCM — Key Largo Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall team up for the final time on this great noirish melodrama of a group of people, including a wheelchair - bound hotel owner, his recently widowed daughter - in - law (Bacall), a war veteran (Bogart), and a ruthless gangster and his girl, forced to take refuge against a fierce hurricane.

And Hitchcock's noirish psychodrama about a former policeman's obsessive love for a dead woman also recently ousted the apparently unimpeachable «Citizen Kane» from the number one spot in Sight & Sound magazine's critics» poll of the Best Films of all time.

Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford, 2016) For every decade the thriller genre needs a stylist and following on from A Single Man (2009) Ford here presents a nightmarish tale of noirish revenge via a novel written by the ex-husband of a local gallery owner.

Absent any need for Sirkian quote marks, the less brightly stylized images in «Carol» more closely resemble those of «Mildred Pierce,» but the palette here seems even more deliberately muted — all dingy greens and nicotine browns, bathed in noirish shadows that seem to provide a cover under which the characters can at last reveal their true selves.

10:15 am — TCM — Key Largo Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall team up for the final time on this great noirish melodrama of a group of people, including a wheelchair - bound hotel owner, his recently widowed daughter - in - law (Bacall), a war veteran (Bogart), and a ruthless gangster and his girl, forced to take refuge against a fierce hurricane.

Complete with actors, arty cinematography and a noirish voice - over, it's the closest the book industry has come to a movie - style preview for a new title.

Noirish WW2 mystery — Josh's contribution to the two novella pairing in PARTNERS IN CRIME 2 - I»LL BE DEAD FOR CHRISTMAS.

Everything has the same value and texture in Carnegie's paintings, but these silent and sexily impenetrable film - noirish worlds are enticing for their bold and striking geometric arrangements.