Sentences with phrase «modern film noir»

It's too wide a span of films to cover, not to mention that modern film noir is practically incongruous with the more seedy, Hitchcockian elements intrinsic to the nightmarish erotic thrillers that dominated the years just prior to Fatal Instinct's release.

Indie writer - director Victor Nunez («Ulee's Gold» / «Ruby in Paradise») completes his «Panhandle Trilogy» of Florida - based films with this disappointing low - key modern film noir.

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.

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.

The year 1997 featured Sutherland as Joey in a modern film noir called The Last Days of Frankie the Fly, and as director of the psycho - thriller Truth or Consequences, N.M..

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This film however, may have had the modern noir feeling, but actually had the old noir story line AKA slow, strange, and confusing.

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.

In this modern era, the Coen Brothers are often credited as the life support system for classic noir, but the Coens appear to have serious competition in the form of Australian filmmaker and stuntman Nash Edgerton, whose feature debut, The Square, is a brilliantly twisty, gritty contemporary film noir.

Despite Blade Runner's modern day status as one of the greatest films ever made, the 1982 sci - fi noir was not as well - received upon its initial theatrical release as many fans might think.

Only an incredible film noir of British cinema, whose influence I can now see in many modern...

But when he infects himself with a new virus that appears designed to kill its celebrity, the film becomes a modern version of the film noir classic DOA, will our hero figure out who poisoned him in - time?

Writer / director Aaron Katz exhibits some strong film - making instincts throughout this modern noir.

With its thumping music and chic shots of the city after dark, the film looks and feels the way a modern L.A. noir should.

Whether it's modern noir («L.A. Confidential»), an old classic («Chinatown»), a genre - bending head trip («Mulholland Dr.») or even a cartoon («Who Framed Roger Rabbit»), film loves to pull back the curtain of Hollywood's seedy underbelly and expose the world of crime.

Vivian Qu Vivian Qu's (Trap Street, 2013) sophomore film (the only woman to be competing in the 2017 Venice Film Festival) is a modern - day noir focusing on female characters in the wake of a terrible crime.

Just as Rian Johnson wrote his script to play out like classic Dashiell Hammett, so too does he direct his film to look like modern noir, featuring many of the same stylish staples that those noir detective films of the 1940s and 1950s were known for.

The question of the title of the film therefore takes on a deeper resonance as one considers the tantalizing mélange produced by a marriage of noir, the western, and a jazz movement founded on unrest and violence, sold through a uniquely Japanese medium (animé, natch) that has been the vehicle for some of the most profound examinations of nihilism, violence, and romanticism (thinking especially of masterworks like Grave of the Fireflies and last year's Spirited Away) in the modern cinematic vocabulary.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a marriage of old film noir elements with more modern black comedy techniques, and the result is an occasionally funny and entertaining film that ultimately tries too hard and can not maintain the breakneck pace that the first act antes up.

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.

Not since Chinatown has a modern noir film been able to captivate on this level, and while it falls just short of being the artistic masterpiece that Roman Polanski had been able to deliver, it's difficult to imagine improving LA Confidential to make it any more engaging or satisfying.

The film A decade before «Basic Instinct» launched the era of the mainstream erotic thriller, Lawrence Kasdan reinvented film noir for a sophisticated modern audience with this sweaty tale of scheming femmes fatales.

«The western and noir vibes of the film seemed to shine in the format and there was not a trace of modern comic hero movie sheen.

The Coen's delve into familiar territory, having done an excellent modern - day noir film Blood Simple as their big screen debut back in 1984.

Shane Black has crafted an astonishing film from a block of hard - as - rock film noir, that has all the wit and irreverence of the modern era and yet still recalls the tough - guy films of Hollywood's golden age of Cagney and Bogart.

Originally starting as a satire built around the plot to the classic noir film, Double Indemnity (the original shooting script was called Triple Indemnity), Fatal Instinct injects a heaping dose of spoofs on modern neo-noir plus the tawdry sex thrillers that have come out over the 1970s to the early 1990s.

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Gunpoint, the sole release by Suspicious Developments, is a modern film - noir platform puzzler with strong stealth elements.

The exhibition will include Levinthal's series of photographs of toy cowboys and soldiers created at Yale, on view for the first time since his thesis exhibition, along with photographs from his well - known Modern Romance series in which he used isolated tiny doll figurines to create melodramatic mises - en - scene reminiscent of Edward Hopper paintings and film noir.

The exhibition will include Levinthal's series of photographs of toy cowboys and soldiers created at Yale, on view for the first time since his thesis exhibition, along with photographs from his well - known Modern Romance series in which he used isolated tiny doll figurines to create melodramatic mises - en - scéne reminiscent of Edward Hopper paintings and film noir.

A maelstrom of references and influences from vaudeville to film noir to modern dance, Sullivan's appropriation of classic filming styles, period costumes, and contemporary spaces (such as corporate offices) draws the viewer's attention away from traditional narratives and towards an examination of performance itself.

He'll co-star with Christina Hendricks and Gosling's real - life love Eva Mendes in the film, which will weave «fantasy noir, horror and suspense into a modern - day fairytale» about «the surreal dreamscape of a vanishing city» and an underwater town.