Sentences with phrase «in films noir»

In the space of a few days Theresa May has discovered that the UK's role in the so called special relationship is the equivalent of following a «femme fatale» in a film noir.

Marilyn Monroe is the luscious femme fatale in this film noir travelogue shot on the US / Canadian border.

He's made a few award winning short films and completed a PhD in film noir.

As in a film noir, a single decision in this film can lead to unimagined consequences, and so it is with Captain Kang and his crew.

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.

From here on in it becomes far more satisfying as Cagney comes into his own as his trademark no - nonsense tough guy and some atmospheric location based camera work nicely combines wartime bravado with some visuals and themes that would not look out of place in a film noir.

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.

He is involved with some dangerous characters who at first seem like important plot factors; later, we suspect Wenders was just throwing in some film noir elements to keep up the interest before getting to his real story, which comes toward the end of this very long film.

Director Rodrigo Plá presents events as in a film noir, as though the outcome is inevitable, no matter what anyone might do to try and change that, and the realization that dawns upon the viewer is one of dread.

Her tour de force seduction of Doc, mostly performed while naked, uncorking a slow drip of role - playing, self - revilement, vulnerability, and desperate control that's indistinguishable from nihilistic abandon, expresses more about sex as a weapon and a survival strategy than a thousand footnoted treatises on the femme fatale in film noir.

We've seen this premise countless times before in film noir, just as we've seen the muted 1940s cityscape that Proyas recreates in sweeping detail.

By the way, the last shot of «High Sierra,» with Ida Lupino walking toward the camera, framed by the mountains and the sky, is one of the great last moments in film noir and in all Hollywood movies.

His father rose to stardom with Rita Hayworth in the film noir classic «Gilda» (made by Charles Vidor in 1946, the year after Peter was born).

Her bleached blond mane suggests another kind of B - movie: Leah comes off as the femme fatale in a film noir, leading herself and Blue into a dangerous situation that at least one of them won't be able to escape.

In this film noir comedy, set in a 1940s Hollywood where cartoon characters are real, private investigator Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) is hired to prove the innocence of the accused murderer and uncontrollably crazy «toon» Roger Rabbit (voiced by Charles Fleischer), with memorable appearances by Roger's voluptuous wife, Jessica Rabbit (voiced by Kathleen Turner) and the chillingly evil Judge Doom (Christopher Lloyd).

Fate reigns supreme in film noir, but that doesn't mean we don't love us some zodiac fun.

As he is the main protagonist in this film noir, he really does carry the entire weight of the story on his shoulders, and he does so, effortlessly.

Though the actor is terribly miscast in the role, he's hardly to blame for some of the script's more perplexing decisions — like having his character narrate the story as if he's a detective in a film noir, or the fact that he barely speaks a lick of Japanese despite being the military's expert on the local culture.

Broken Embraces is a 50s melodrama coated in film noir that leaves no room for intimate character exploration within it's labyrinth of a plot.

Williamson previously starred in Sparks (2013), playing the titular superhero in a film noir, live - action translation of the comic - book series.

Devil In A Blue Dress — Denzel Washington is great in this film noir set in post-WW2 Los Angeles, specifically that city's black communities.

To that end, the first hour was written and shot in a film noir style.

Buying life insurance on someone else and naming yourself as beneficiary might sound like a plot point in a film noir mystery.

Developed by Irrational Games, Burial at Sea — Episode Two lets you play as the amazing Elizabeth (FINALLY) in a film noir - style story where gamers can choose stealth over massacring everything in their path.

With a firm influence in the film noir genre with classic Japanese role playing games, the player inquisitiveness will determine the storyline and the other character's motivations much like L.A Noire.

The tone of 1940s Los Angeles is wonderfully recaptured in the film noir style with superb attention to detail, both visually and audibly.

Heavy Rain gets closer than any previous game to conveying the sense that you are controlling the protagonists in an interactive movie — firmly entrenched in the film noir genre, its storyline (twist - laden, naturally) is able to suck you in completely, thanks to the most convincing facial and bodily animation yet seen in a game.

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Marianna Rothen finds them in film noir, Barbara Probst in the studio, Jordan Kasey in other worlds, and Rita Lundqvist in a Nordic landscape, but all of them just short of exposure.

The zigzag tracings of the palm leaves recall photograms or the stylized manipulations of light in film noir (in which many of these trees once featured), while the inky gloss of the images simultaneously reflects viewers» gaze and sucks them into an interstellar vastness.

She inserts her torso in photographs by another, too, much as Sherman places herself in film noir.

I borrow this term from film — as in film noir — of course, which refers to a genre of hardboiled American crime dramas of the 1940s and 50s shot in a German Expressionist - derived style of black - and - white cinematography.

My work currently explores characters and relationships in film noir.

Buying life insurance on someone else and naming yourself as beneficiary might sound like a plot point in a film noir mystery.

Not exact matches

As titillating as it might be to read Andreessen's text messages to Zuckerberg, however — in which the former quotes from a 1950's film noir with Burt Lancaster, remarking «The cat's in the bag and the bag's in the river» — the whole thing feels like a bit of a sideshow.

I thought maybe the scenario was going in a definite film noir direction after reading the title.

The late Gloria Grahame, the bad girl of film noir, blazed up the screen as the local temptress in It's a Wonderful Life, the girl who couldn't say no -LRB-...)

Tomorrow's films (free, but first come, first served) are Paris Noir, a documentary on black American poets, writers, artists and others living in Paris in the 1920s and»30s, and When Voice Rise, a documentary on desegregation in 1950s Bermuda.

It would also not look out of place in a black and white film noir.

Graduate students in the department also create other outreach videos including, most recently, a film noir series about El Nino's effects on sardines.

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.

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.

Then the trench coat started to be worn by protagonists of the film noir genre in the 1940s.

The film is laughable in a noir way, predictable and is completed saved by the hotness.

A glamorous, alluring entertainment that revels in the artifice of Hollywood while exposing its corrupt heart, L.A. Confidential pays stylish homage to some of the great film noirs of the distant and recent past.

The evocation of that old film noir feeling is hugely effective here: Dad telling his freshly - bribed son «You can't buy dignity,» the fantastic slow zoom on a love scene reflected in a two - way mirror, even the beguiling torch singer.

[A] descendant of film noir, the film resorts to classic motifs of the genre to suggest an inescapable and destructive presence, destiny, which comes hand in hand with errors in the political and social system.

The problem with the early episodes — written and directed by Jim Mickle, who also made the film «Cold in July,» based on a Lansdale novel — has to do with a slow pace and a sameness that muffle the humor and menace we expect from smart noir.

A lot funnier than you remember it, Carol Reed's immortal 1949 film noir seems to exist in the space between two worlds: an earlier time when thrillers were mostly serious affairs, and a future one, when such supremely witty entertainments felt passé.