Sentences with phrase «little films noir»

Together, they've created a nice little film noir which harkens back to the thrillers of the 40s.

This pungent little film noir sleeper is part of Dick Powell Day.

Gun Crazy — Quite a perverse little film noir directed by Joseph H. Lewis and starring John Dall (the actor who wasn't awful in Hitchcock's Rope) as a sharpshooter with a gun fetish and Peggy Cummins as one of the most evil femmes fatale in the noir canon.

Not exact matches

Little Accidents is yet another example of these dark modern noir type films, that have become so popular the past decade, and normally I am a huge fan of them.

An over indulgent and often confusing stab at film noir, The Black Dahlia leaves little to be desired as director Brian De Palma continues to prove that his best days are behind him.

Her first American film was WILLOW for George Lucas and directed by Ron Howard, followed by the noir film KILL ME AGAIN for John Dahl, NAVY SEALS with Charlie Sheen, SHATTERED with Tom Berenger, THE GUILTY with Bill Pullman, THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO LITTLE with Bill Murray, and A TEXAS FUNERAL with Martin Sheen.

In a 1920s film noir dreamscape, you must become your shadow to help a little girl heal her troubled family.

Those willing to get a little more esoteric should check out Kaili Blues, the poetic debut feature from Chinese filmmaker Bi Gan, in which flourishes of film noir (an ex-con, a missing boy who may have been sold, small - town gangs) are mirrored in the mundane and the mystical, recalling the films of the great Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

Brothers in arms The most dementedly elegiac thriller you've ever seen, distilling a lifetime's enthusiasm for American and French film noir, with little Chinese about it apart from the soundtrack and the looks of the three beautiful leads.

His earlier films are both gritty and introspective, and seem nothing at all like Kwaidan: one of Kobayashi's most compelling early films is the brutal baseball noir drama I Will Buy You (Anata kaimasu, 1956), in which a young player rises to the top of Japanese professional baseball, revealed to be little more than a racket.

She is reminiscent of every black widow woman from every film noir ever made: Lana Turner wrapping John Garfield around her little finger in «The Postman Always Rings Twice» or Barbara Stanwyck playing Fred MacMurray like a violin in «Double Indemnity.»

LMD: The Shameless is like a classic film noir and while watching Kim Nam - gil's performance and the way you capture him, he reminded me a little of a young Robert Mitchum, as he looked in Out of the Past.

More gothic drama then it is full - on noir, The Red House is nonetheless a fascinating curio piece, and while its emotional components are a little overwrought at times, the power they have over the viewer still remains undeniable making the film an underappreciated gem worthy of rediscovery.

In the meantime, those who are waiting for something a little more unusual from McCarthy should stay tuned for the films she has coming out later this year (like the Henson Company puppet noir mystery The Happytown Murders).

Other newly featured stuff to look out for: Marie Antoinette, which solidified Sofia Coppola among my favorite directors, hidden gem of a B - movie film noir The Narrow Margin, incredible modern melodrama Little Children, and D.W. Griffith silent epic Orphans of the Storm.

Finally, someone let him direct his own script, and the result was Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, a riotous riff on the hard - boiled works of Raymond Chandler (chapter titles are all from Philip Marlowe novels: Lady in the Lake, The Simple Art of Murder, The Little Sister, etc), that nimbly satirizes the movie business, detective - movie plotting (there are always two cases that implausibly tie up together), the action hero as idiot and the conventions of the film noir voiceover («Oh shit, back up, back up, I forgot to mention — Jesus, this is terrible narration, it's like my dad telling a joke and saying, oh, I should have told you the cowboy's horse is blue...»).

You need to submit yourself to the humdrum, day to day farm life to make progress, but it can start to feel like you're spreading yourself a little too thin, especially when you add to that the relentless friendship grinding and film noir spying the plot demands.

A moody tale that combines the intrigue and atmosphere of a Raymond Chandler novel or Humphrey Bogart film with classic point - and - click adventure gameplay, Face Noir follows private eye Jack Del Nero as he's falsely accused of murdering the man who left a little girl in his protection.

From the intricate recreations of the French imperial furniture to film noir stills of Hollywood stars — Grace Kelly, James Stewart, Humphrey Bogart, the artist captures a unique fragment in a time long gone and allows us to contemplate it for a little while longer.