Sentences with phrase «in old film noir»
Vaccaro is interested in capturing the flickering light and the disintegrating romantic images in old film noir.
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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.
Hanson delivers something ever rarer in film culture, not a new film noir but an old - fashioned total movie, somehow of a single piece.
Recruited by an old chum (Peter Boyle) to help find an exotic prostitute missing in Chinatown, Hammett enlists his implausibly gorgeous neighbor (Marilu Henner) to play Girl Friday as he matches wits with colorful actors including Jack Nance («Eraserhead» and other David Lynch works), David Patrick Kelly (whose strangled voice is an interesting counterpart to his iconic «Come out to play - yi - yay» taunt from «The Warriors»), Roy Kinnear and a few old - timers from film noir's heyday (the scene with Sylvia Sidney is especially good).
If the film feels Old Hollywood in that the stars are pretty, the heroes are tough, and the sex is good but the brutality is better, then excavate the ways that this period in our history dissolves into period noir: shells of men entrusted with the rebuilding of our society, with dangerous women and effete men (abortion rights and gay marriage vs. the evacuation of civil rights and ground wars in the Middle East) embodying the greater peril.
Rian Johnson, who received great critical acclaim for his modern film noir homage, Brick, crafts another genre homage to the old con capers with The Brothers Bloom, mixing the stories you'd find in such films as The Sting with the light comedy you'd occasionally find in a Marx Brothers comic adventure.
The movie is based on a true story about a late - in - life romance between film noir star Gloria Grahame and a 28 - year - old English actor.
«The City & the City is a murder mystery, old - fashioned in its way, narrated by a tough - talking police investigator and layered with all the shadow and menace of a film noir....
Miéville's «The City & The City is a murder mystery, old - fashioned in its way, narrated by a tough - talking police investigator and layered with all the shadow and menace of a film noir.»