Sentences with phrase «into noirish»
8:00 pm — TCM — The Asphalt Jungle The Asphalt Jungle was really MGM's first foray into noirish crime films.
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Krantz has a penchant for stylization that quickly slides into a velvet - painting cheesiness, which - along with the script's pseudoprofound Philosophy 101 maxims - renders the atmosphere less noirish than ridiculously cartoonish.
Although Reynolds rises above the rest as a father consumed by sadness and anger, «The Captive» quickly devolves into scenes that feel like stilted dramatic re-creations demanding a noirish voice - over by «Cold Case Files» host Bill Kurtis.
Abruptly, the proceedings take a noirish turn — suffice it to say that Andre's venture into the criminal world has major unintended consequences — and the film loses its footing.
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.
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.
More than Shockproof, the 1949 film Fuller cowrote for Douglas Sirk, The Naked Kiss intuits a Sirkian female melodrama — at least a Sirkian female melodrama as recast by Russ Meyer and Rainer Werner Fassbinder into a minimalistic, noirish fairy tale.
Noirish thriller «Broken City,» with Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe, is currently set for next January, but could move into awards season if it has the right stuff, while Paul Greengrass ««Captain Philips,» with Tom Hanks, might try the same if production goes smoothly.
Neither a standard biopic nor a conventional chase movie, it fuses both into a grand narrative experiment that imagines the battle of wits between a poet, Chilean great Pablo Neruda (Luis Gnecco), and policeman (Gael García Bernal)-- artist versus repressor — as a noirish travelogue where nothing is quite as it seems.
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).
Lamberson is highly skilled genre - blender, stirring grisly horror and noirish urban fantasy into a perfectly emulsified sauce to serve over a nicely plotted, medium - rare cop story.
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.
Rockstar has done a great job of taking the character of Max Payne and putting him into the real world and while the noirish edge fits, it does tend to come off more than a little heavy handed.
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.