Sentences with phrase «gangster film classic»
The festival announced Wednesday that a re-mastered version of the gangster film classic will close the 14th annual Tribeca Film Festival on April 25.
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The festival announced Wednesday that a re-mastered version of the gangster film classic will close the 14th annual Tribeca Film...
Not exact matches
Reservoir Dogs: Bloody Days by Big Star Games is a third - person top - down shooter with few connections to Quentin Tarantino's film other than it being about gangsters with color - coded names; and yet Bloody Days partially succeeds in its aspiration to revive a classic for crime and gangster films, while offering a time - rewind mechanics that helps the game distinct itself from the pool of titles in the top - down shooter category.
Scorsese is aware of the similarities between his classic gangster movie and his upcoming Mafia hitman film, which is set to be produced by Netflix.
The reason why Le cercle rouge is a classic gangster film is because it embodies this kind of romanticism.
As in Melville's brooding gangster classic, Mamet's film focuses on a lonely, figurative samurai devoted to a governing code, in this case a jiu - jitsu instructor named Mike Terry (Chiwetel Ejiofor) who runs a Los Angeles martial arts academy where he trains both lay people and cops.
But his career definitely got tripped up by his directorial debut «London Boulevard,» a film in the would - be mold of the classic British gangster films from the «60s and early «70s like «Get Carter,» Nicolas Roeg's «Performance,» and even Antonioni's «Blow Up.»
His slangy eloquence, his brilliance at scene making, and his nose for the zeitgeist fostered a slew of smash movie classics, including the seminal silent gangster film Underworld (1927), which won the first Oscar for best original screen story, and its sound - film successor, Scarface (1932); the screwball satire Nothing Sacred (1937); and the seductive romantic thriller, Notorious (1946).
The Climber (Arrow Video) is a gangster film in the tradition of such classics as The Public Enemy and Scarface that chronicles the rise and inevitable fall of small - time smuggler Aldo (Joe Dallesandro).
But it is of a piece with the rest of the movie, which plays less like a classic gangster film than like a 99 percent pure, Heisenberg - quality, blue - crystal distillation of all the tropes and themes and moods of the classic gangster film.
In 1941, the same year he played Sam Spade, private eye, one of the greatest of all movie detectives, in John Huston's classic film noir «The Maltese Falcon,» Humphrey Bogart also played one of the greatest of all movie gangsters, Roy Earle, in Raoul Walsh «s classic noir, «High Sierra.»
The special features are not as impressive as the «Ultimate Gangsters Collection: Classics» release since these films have been released on Blu - ray prior and are missing quite a bit of there previously released extras.
The following films make up this «Ultimate Gangsters Collection: Classics» — «Little Caesar (1931)», «The Public Enemy (1931)», «The Petrified Forest (1936)», «White Heat (1949)».
The film takes all the tropes of the classic gangster movie and, whilst never skimping on the violence or seediness, presents something slicker, more complicated.
Not only does Gangster Squad pay cartoonish tribute to these films in style and content, but it also tips its fedora at classic films from the era, such as Billy Wilder's non-B-grade masterpiece Sunset Blvd. (1950), with direct visual references.
As I mentioned in my review of «Gangster Squad» last week, the screenplay was plainly built around classic Western conventions — one Western film in particular.
1:30 am (23rd)-- TCM — Little Caesar One of the classic early 1930s gangster films, the one that essentially typecast Edward G. Robinson in the role of the cigar - chewing tough guy.
The set - up is classic Hong Kong gangster, with the new kids not respecting the old ways and a sense of nostalgia and doom pervading the film.
Despite sounding like the sub-title to a sequel of Brian DePalma's gangster classic CARLITO»S WAY, Nick Frost's latest film, CUBAN FURY, is in fact an outrageous romantic comedy co-starring Irish funny man Chris O'Dowd.
Despite sounding like the sub-title to a sequel of Brian DePalma's gangster classic CARLITO»S WAY, Nick Frost's latest film, CUBAN FURY, is in fact...
Suzuki, whose low - budget Japanese gangster films later became regarded as cult classics and inspired American directors such as Quentin Tarantino...
While Universal looks for yet another helmer to take on their iteration of the classic gangster movie, Ayer will continue to develop the spinoff of last year's DC bad guy team up film, Suicide Squad.
9:00 am — TCM — Little Caesar One of the classic early 1930s gangster films, the one that essentially typecast Edward G. Robinson in the role of the cigar - chewing tough guy.