Sentences with phrase «in noirish»

They played ingénues — young housewives, career girls — threatened, in noirish, B - movie solo scenes, by unnamed dangers lurking just out of camera range.

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.

In a noirish Los Angeles inhabited - in a tense and unease standoff - by puppets and the humans who despise them, a puppet detective (Barretta) teams up with his human ex-partner (a foul - mouthed McCarthy) to investigate a series of murders targeting the cast of a 1980 children's TV series, «The Happytime Gang.»

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.

Set in a noirish, gleaming Montreal, this handsome, captivating, well - paced and stylish film is fully realized in every aspect.

Not exact matches

The outstanding script by screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker is skillfully conceived, makeup artist Rob Bottin» special effects are effectively scary, Fincher's direction is maddeningly tense and taut, and the noirish and darkly graphic cinematography by Darius Khondji forces the viewer to see the crime scene in the horrible way it looks.

Noirish, erotic, chaotic and intense, Bad Timing grows in complexity and emotional power as it progresses, with a wonderful soundtrack and some exceptional cinematography.

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.

Elements of noirish mystery persist throughout A Fantastic Woman, but the filmmakers prove less interested in their protagonist's psyche than the intolerance she's made to endure at every turn.

British director Carol Reed's tense tale of treachery set in post-war Vienna, The Third Man (1949), with the memorable character of black market racketeer Harry Lime (Orson Welles), ended with a climactic shootout in the city's noirish underground sewer.

As a stylist, she is on a level with Douglas Sirk in her gracefully sweeping crane / dolly camera work, and her lighting and direction of actors recalls the noirish tendencies of Robert Aldrich and Don Siegel.

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.

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.

The lighting is noirish and steeped in shadows, only they glow in primary colors instead of black and white.

Afterward, we managed to catch the very noirish «Safe in Hell» (1931, William Wellman), starring Dorothy Mackaill as a streetwise blonde who holds her own among a slew of unsavory men while she's hiding out in the Caribbean.

Noirish shots of Brandon prowling New York streets at night reveal the energy he expends to shroud his life in secrecy and keep his emotions at bay.

Other notable films in competition this year include noirish drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, starring Frances McDormand and directed by Martin McDonagh (In Bruges), and Paulo Virzi's comedy - drama The Leisure Seeker, starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherlanin competition this year include noirish drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, starring Frances McDormand and directed by Martin McDonagh (In Bruges), and Paulo Virzi's comedy - drama The Leisure Seeker, starring Helen Mirren and Donald SutherlanIn Bruges), and Paulo Virzi's comedy - drama The Leisure Seeker, starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland.

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.

9:30 am — TCM — The Bad and the Beautiful Vincente Minnelli directs Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Dick Powell, Gloria Grahame, and others in one of the best dark - side - of - Hollywood noirish films this side of Sunset Boulevard.

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.

The aesthetics of Blade Runner in particular have had a pervasive influence on the genre, with the noirish future cityscape of the movie developed by Scott and his production designers being lazily cribbed by numerous sci - fi directors trying to bring some of that Blade Runner sophistication and elan to their own generic product.

Blue Ruin was a noirish neo-western that made a mark in 2013 due to its quirky protagonist and visual flair.

The prices are low, but the merchandise is irresistible: particularly Driver's way of speaking in jagged pronouncements; Hilary Swank's hilariously noirish turn, late in the movie, as a foxy Fed; and most of all Daniel Craig, playing a peroxided inmate named Joe Bang.

I liked Drive, a vigorous 2011 take on Hollywood car - chase movies with noirish undertones starring Ryan Gosling, but its 2013 successor, Only God Forgives, a muddled romp (also starring Gosling) about a mama's boy adrift in the Bangkok underworld at the mercy of a gangster who performed musical numbers between bloodbaths, was parboiled by critics and avoided by audiences like an airborne virus.

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.

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).

4:00 am — TCM — The Bad and the Beautiful Vincente Minnelli directs Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Dick Powell, and Gloria Grahame in one of the best dark - side - of - Hollywood noirish films this side of Sunset Boulevard.

And there are a lot of good parts in here — the film noirish opening as the Bride catches us up on what's going on, the fight with Daryl Hannah in the trailer, training with the kung fu master, her getting out of the coffin, etc..

Based on James Ellroy's novel, LA Confidential is a modern noirish tale of how police corruption and the flourishing of organized crime go hand in hand, as well as how public decisions are dictated by public image, strange bedfellows, and the allure of the Hollywood glamour industry.

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).

You've seen the double - crossing noirish plotline between lovers done better in After Dark My Sweet and The Grifters.

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.

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.

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!

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.

A noirish, deeply felt novel of intrigue and identity written in O'Nan's trademark lucent style, City of Secrets asks how both despair and faith can lead us astray, and what happens when, with the noblest intentions, we join movements beyond our control.

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The series, set in Apalachicola, FL, is a noirish suspense series, dripping with atmosphere and flawed, human, witty characters.

This noirish historical thriller, in which 15 - year - old Evie questions her relationship with her parents and a flirtatious ex-GI, explores myriad issues of post — World War II America, deftly woven into a girl's crushing coming - of - age.

Now Wolverine is turned loose in a more gritty and noirish story.

In his work, the noirish drama of Cubism and German Expressionism find their complement in techniques of cinematic suspense, with a femme fatale laying in bed, or a Joker - like figure overlooking a nocturnal Gotham, while modernist references play around them like a swelling visual soundtracIn his work, the noirish drama of Cubism and German Expressionism find their complement in techniques of cinematic suspense, with a femme fatale laying in bed, or a Joker - like figure overlooking a nocturnal Gotham, while modernist references play around them like a swelling visual soundtracin techniques of cinematic suspense, with a femme fatale laying in bed, or a Joker - like figure overlooking a nocturnal Gotham, while modernist references play around them like a swelling visual soundtracin bed, or a Joker - like figure overlooking a nocturnal Gotham, while modernist references play around them like a swelling visual soundtrack.

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.

«Trocchi's 1954 cult novel is written in the first person, but Mackenzie rejects the obvious solution of giving his anti-hero, Joe Taylor, a doomy noirish voiceover.

This noirish description has corollaries in the work of Philip Guston and Francis Bacon.

In the moody and noirish Dawn, Sandy Hook, Connecticut, ca. 1933, printmaker and painter Martin Lewis (1881 — 1962) discerns the inherent tension in Connecticut between its small towns and their proximity to large cities that siphon off inhabitants each daIn the moody and noirish Dawn, Sandy Hook, Connecticut, ca. 1933, printmaker and painter Martin Lewis (1881 — 1962) discerns the inherent tension in Connecticut between its small towns and their proximity to large cities that siphon off inhabitants each dain Connecticut between its small towns and their proximity to large cities that siphon off inhabitants each day.