Sentences with phrase «from noirish»

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Featuring deliciously unsavory dialogue, in an acid, brilliantly structured script by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman, and noirish neon cityscapes from Oscar - winning cinematographer James Wong Howe, this cynical masterpiece is accompanied on the Channel by a 1986 documentary about Mackendrick, a 1973 documentary about Howe, and a video interview with film critic and historian Neal Gabler.

Melodrama casts noirish shadows in this portrait of maternal sacrifice from Hollywood master Michael Curtiz.

There are three other previous filmed versions of the book that I have never seen: a silent film from 1926, a noirish film from 1949 (with Alan Ladd), and a hip - hop version — entitled G — from 2002.

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).

... The conflicted heroes of Mann's Westerns are cut from the same cloth as his noirish crime dramas, often attempting to outrun a past that weighs heavily on their actions, morally ambivalent, as they vacillate between individual desire and communal responsibility.

Today's Sequel Bits features all kinds, from Depression - era gangsters to noirish femme fatales to drunken school bus drivers.

3:15 am (19th)-- TCM — The Lady from Shanghai Most of Welles» films, no matter the genre, feel a little noirish in mood, but The Lady from Shanghai is the real thing, complete with fatalistic hero who gets dragged into a murder plot by a femme fatale (Rita Hayworth).

Lou Ye's film also draws from Hollywood film noir, using a voice - over narration to recount the story in flashback while the narrator is determinedly kept offscreen, the camera taking his place — which is probably derived from Robert Montgomery's gimmicky, noirish Raymond Chandler adaptation Lady in the Lake (1946).

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.

This new series simply bleeds that noirish atmosphere, from the dusty, grief - striken hero to the no - nonsense dialogue between lowlifes of all types, from cops to gang members.

Her noirish mass media representations have always charmed by tapping into Italian neorealist film styles, crime dramas and a host of other 20th century representations from theatre and film.