Sentences with phrase «modern noir»

Sunburn has already received starred reviews from Kirkus and Library Journal, with the latter saying, «Modern noir at its best, it will delight old - movie lovers, satisfy suspense readers, and reward Lippman's legion of fans.»

Sunburn is a modern noir in which two lovers with great intentions and terrible luck wind up in a dangerous game of cat - and - mouse.

In Proving Ground, Blauner's modern noir mystery, the colossus that is the New York City Police Department, one of the largest civil law enforcement entities in the world, is a supporting character in its own right.

Inspired by James M. Cain's masterpieces The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and Mildred Pierce, Sunburn is a tantalizing modern noir from the incomparable Laura Lippman.

In this month's Whodunit column: a fabulous modern noir and John Hart's return to the world of The Lost Child.

Longtime favorite Andrew Vachss» The Getaway Man is a sterling example of modern noir, and a bit of a departure from the hard - boiled Burke novels (Down in the Zero, Dead and Gone) for which he is best known.

Based on the novel by Fred Zackel, made for NBC by O.J.'s production house, Cocaine and Blue Eyes marks an attempt at a modern noir private investigator flick, complete with voice over narration, damsels in distress, and dialogue that wouldn't sound foreign if Humphrey Bogart had said them 50 years before.

The unabashed nastiness of this parent - child relationship — marked by emotional coldness and a few perverse expressions of love (kisses held long past properness)-- is one of this modern noir's many ballsy traits.

Not quite a comedy but as darkly comic a crime drama as you'll find, this offbeat modern noir («based on actual events,» according to the credits, but then Fargo claimed the same thing) is a weirdly compelling portrait of a town that has its own sense of justice and pitiless equilibrium and director Henrik Ruben Genz maintains the unsettling mood perfectly.

Back in 2005, the trailers for Sin City looked like nothing I'd seen before, a phenomenal page - to - screen adaptation that captured the flavor of Frank Miller's modern noir comic book series via the spendthrift imagination of filmmaker Robert Rodriguez.

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.

She'll co-star with Andrew Garfield in what's being described as an LA - based «modern noir crime thriller».

For those few that caught his modern noir, THE WAY OF THE GUN (featuring a career - best Ryan Phillippe, as well as Benicio Del Toro, Juliette Lewis and James Caan), most will remember it as a brutal, brilliantly structured and cruelly overlooked crime classic.

«Under the Silver Lake» Release Date: TBD Director: David Robert Mitchell Starring: Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough, Topher Grace and Summer Bishil Synopsis: Modern noir crime thriller set in Los Angeles.

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.

Moverman directs his modern noir from an original screenplay by James Ellroy («L.A. Confidential»).

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.

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

Why it's worth watching: A near - perfect riff on modern noir.

Now, according to our friends over at Latino Review, he could be taking on a role made famous by Bruce Lee himself: Rain may have snagged the starring role in a modern noir remake of Enter the Dragon, dubbed Awaken the Dragon.

He lends an authenticity to an already believable and cleverly structured modern noir.

With a plotline involving a radical mosque, multiculturalism, and commercial development City of Tiny Lights sounds like a ripe and topical slice of modern noir set in the city I love.

Academy Award - winning director Boyle (last seen directing the opening ceremonies at the London Olympics) bounces around from genre to genre, but his upcoming art heist thriller Trance probably hews closest to his first feature, the small - scale modern noir Shallow Grave (which was also written by John Hodge).

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.

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

The modern noir — about the search for a missing child — shows that Ben Affleck isn't just a blockbuster movie star; he's also one of his generation's most notable filmmakers.

Most of us come to the shadows of modern noirs to be swept up in the guilt and intrigue, not to be abandoned in the thick of nonsense.

Most modern Noirs are homages rather than anything new.

Not exact matches

It comes three decades after the fanciful lithograph of Baker in the 1927 portfolio Le Tumulte Noir showing her in the banana skirt, gleefully gyrating, facing away but with one nipple visible (Guterl terms it «the most famous nude of the modern age»).

He introduced modern technology such as stainless steel fermentation, barrel aging, and added new Santa Cruz Mountains varietals such as Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.

His role was key to creating a stylish noir that would launch the careers of two modern masters.

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..

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.

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.

Directed with style by D.J. Caruso as the follow - up to his stylish tweaker noir The Salton Sea, the picture has a way with tension and the jump scare — at least until a Fatal Attraction / Astronaut's Wife conclusion proves again that the inoperable tumor of modern mainstream cinema is the ability to end.

From its opening scene slowly falling down Violet's closet in a continuous panning shot that makes her hat boxes and skin - tight dresses seem more like a modern city than a wardrobe, Bound quickly proves itself as a tightly constructed (and unexpectedly funny) lesbian noir with incredible camerawork, solid acting by the entire cast and tight pacing that'll keep you feeling empathizing with Violet, Corky and Caesar as their high - stakes game take several reversals of fortune.

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

Starring Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara as a husband and wife team of outlaw bandits, this modern - day Western noir evokes Terrence Malick in its painterly depictions of west Texas tall grass and No Country For Old Men in its stark and sudden violence.

There are a refreshing number of Newly Featured titles this week, from Golden Age musicals to classic noir to Kurosawa masterpieces to modern crime thrillers.

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?

Synopsis (via Coming Soon): «How to Catch a Monster» weaves elements of fantasy noir, and suspense into a modern day fairytale.

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.

Beyond its description as a «modern - day noir crime thriller» set in LA, there's few details out there, but it should pique the interest of anyone who caught the writer - director's terrific 2014 genre piece.

The project is described as a «modern - day noir crime thriller set in Los Angeles,» and it's based on an original script written by Mitchell himself.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.