Sentences with phrase «luridness of»
Recently some huge billboards along British Columbia's major roadways showed black - and - white photos of car wrecks — gashed and mangled metal, clouds of steam and smoke — all illumined under the luridness of fire, flares, searchlights and siren lights.
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His peak had accompanied the zenith of classic Hollywood filmmaking that ended with the cultural shifts of the late 1960s, but his 1972 serial - killer movie, Frenzy, hints at how much more luridness he may have allowed himself in the new era.
This being a Leone film, though, the proceedings are infused with a luridness that might best be called «Italian»: The bangs are big, the score (one of Ennio Morricone's most beautiful) is twangy, and the faces are craggy and huge, filling the widescreen frame completely.
Even though Fincher's gotten into a disheartening streak of adapting airport - thriller bestsellers into mediocre movies (I'm looking at you, Dragon Tattoo), he avoids that with his adaptation of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl, turning that lascivious, tabloid luridness into a reflection on our obsession with that same sensationalism.
There, he was trapped by the luridness and sentimentality of King's source material.
There are references to Frank Auerbach's thick smears of paint and Munch's ghastly luridness, all effectively employed to entice and disturb.