Sentences with phrase «less film noir»

Less film noir, more slow - mo abattoir.

Crime in the Streets (1956) is less film noir than stagey social drama, but it's the film debut of John Cassavetes in a twitchy bit of juvenile delinquency on the road to murder.

Not exact matches

Pearson and Connor, after an energetic investigation, concluded that the film noir scenario must have happened more or less as Mellaart related it.

Coming off the success of the horror film It Follows, writer - director David Robert Mitchell shifts into noir with his latest feature, but the results appear to be much less favorable.

Anderson's seventh feature film is a groovy, richly funny stoner romp that has less in common with «The Big Lebowski» than with the strain of fatalistic,»70s - era California noirs («Chinatown,» «The Long Goodbye,» «Night Moves») in which the question of «whodunit?»

In addition to the three - day «Citizen Kane» workshop, I did a Q&A with the actor Jason Patric after a screening of James Foley's «After Dark, My Sweet» (1990), a modern film noir that made both of the Best Ten lists on «Siskel & Ebert,» but sank so quickly at the box office that it never played Chicago and grossed less than $ 2 million.

Despite these triumphs, Leonard's reputation mainly rests on the series of six musical films he made with the singing team of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy; Leonard directed all but two of their features, including Maytime (1937), long established as the uncontested favorite of the cycle.In Leonard's late career, the properties he handled were somewhat less auspicious, though there is a surprise in the hard - boiled melodrama The Bribe (1949), a respected film noir that is the only film of its kind in Leonard's canon of 161 known titles.

A good story gets stuck in a puddle of mood in «Dark Crimes,» a film that strays from its fascinating source - a real - life murder case - into a less successful attempt at noir.

The Film Noir Foundation's Eddie Muller introduced the film, noting that it was less a crime flick than an effective portrayal of the plight of the poor and downtrodden.

Grahame was less otherworldly than the goddess Monroe (both women endured plastic surgery to perfect their faces) but she had a feline beauty, sharp - featured and streetwise, the ideal look for many a femme fatale in some of the finest film noir titles ever produced.

And yet the realization dawns inescapable that no matter the acres of flesh, the film is every bit as horrible as that self - serious, neo-camp sexploitation classic Original Sin (another noir based on a lesser - known, period - dependent novel — that one by Cornell Woolrich, this one by John Fante), with only the gender / race roles reversed — that watching naked Angelina Jolie writhe around with Antonio Banderas can be every bit as disturbingly sexless as Hayek and Colin Farrell doing same.

From the palm - prickling underworld anxiety of his Danish - language Pusher trilogy to the electro - fetish noir of his first Los Angeles - set film, Drive, sour milk and fresh meat is more or less what Nicolas Winding Refn has been serving up all along.

Sheer, luxuriant noir all the way — apart from a brief Women on the Verge - style film - within - a-film — Broken Embraces is a ravishing film from the Spanish maestro, a glowing tribute to the genre, and one to delight his fans and film buffs everywhere, althouth the wider audiences of Volver are less secure.

Gratuitous female nudity, they say, is a far cry from the more mysterious less - is - more school of noir, which the film claims to aim to channel.

The supplements are far less lavish that the previous Columbia noir collection, limited to brief interview featurettes with Martin Scorsese (on The Brothers Rico), director Christopher Nolan and actress Emily Mortimer, but the star attractions are the five films making their DVD debuts in superb transfers, all of them in their correct aspect ratio for the first time on home video.

Try adjusting the filter strength — for example choose the Noir filter with 30 % strength to get a less saturated, film - like look on a map like Sinai Desert.