Sentences with phrase «noir comedy»

In this film noir comedy, set in a 1940s Hollywood where cartoon characters are real, private investigator Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) is hired to prove the innocence of the accused murderer and uncontrollably crazy «toon» Roger Rabbit (voiced by Charles Fleischer), with memorable appearances by Roger's voluptuous wife, Jessica Rabbit (voiced by Kathleen Turner) and the chillingly evil Judge Doom (Christopher Lloyd).

Described by director Jim Jarmusch as a «neo — Beat noir comedy,» Down by Law is part nightmare and part fairy tale, featuring fine performances and crisp black - and - white photography by esteemed cinematographer Robby Müller.

The problem with a movie like Jonathan Lynn's 2000 noir comedy is that it rarely inspires more than cursory interest (its final box office tally was under $ 60 million - solid numbers, but far from blockbuster level).

Black's involvement is far more significant than his «80s action track - record, as his barnstormingly clever, postmodern film noir comedy, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, was fundamental in relaunching Robert Downey Jr's career, post-rehab.

However, it would be a mistake to allow the controversy or the shock value to become the story of this excellent noir comedy that takes black humor to a new level of darkness.

Not exact matches

FROM Tartan Noir dramas and soap operas to satirical comedies and sports shows, Scotland has been producing its own television programmes for over sixty years.

A sordid tale that resembles many noir classic films from the forties and fifties, where its protagonists are police partners based on the duality of buddy movies but without the comedy.

The theme song is truly unique in an age of 5 second jingle - tros, and every other song on the show is a trove of comedy gold (who could forget peeno noir?).

FLIX ® is a celebration of all things cinema, from knee - slapping comedy to face - slapping film noir, get ready to experience the history of Hollywood, one classic at a time.

Affectionately spoofing 1940s film noir and detective dramas, this comedy follows a private investigator's attempts to solve the murder of a scientist.

Well, film noir literally translates as «dark film» so that means that this is really as dark as you can get outside of the Holocaust (and no, I don't wish the Coens made a comedy about the Holocaust).

During his unprecedented twenty - seven - year tenure at Warner Bros., he directed swashbuckling adventures, westerns, musicals, war epics, historical dramas, horror films, melodramas, comedies, and film noir masterpieces.

The film is split down the middle, with many elegant symmetries and curling plotlines bridging the two halves: one part is a bracing, funny, almost Keaton-esque comedy starring Harry as a deadpan center of disaster; the other is a brooding, brutal film noir, starring Sondra Locke as a vengeful femme fatale.

This edition of Now Stream This brings you a highly underrated and very recent Todd Haynes movie, a new Netflix horror flick, a gloriously over-the-top action movie, a cynical noir loaded with snappy dialogue, the first Hannibal Lecter film, a romantic horror movie, a Steven Spielberg adventure, a cringe - inducing social media comedy, and some good old fashioned body horror.

It's also pretty clearly influenced by such wry post coming - of - age comedies as «Diner,» «The Big Chill» and, believe it not, Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen's great 1955 noir musical, «It's Always Fair Weather.»

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• The movie was the Coens» first — and to date, only — stab at romantic comedy, though with generous helpings of noir, screwball, and Hollywood satire thrown in.

Released: May 20th Cast: Ryan Gosling, Russell Crowe, Angourie Rice, Keith David Director: Shane Black (Iron Man 3) Why it's great: Birthed from»70s funk, covered in porn sleaze, and decorated with the English - language equivalent of shaggy neon carpet, this rollicking, Los Angeles - set noir is a comedy of groovy errors.

Yet, in the space of eighteen months in 1956 — 7, Duvivier directed Jean Gabin in a noir, Fernandel in a comedy - thriller, and Danielle Darrieux in a Zola adaptation.

The week ended with a «a film noir gatecrashed by reality», as Peter Beech chose to describe In Bruges, Martin McDonagh's biting comedy about two hit men hiding out in the Belgian city after a job that's gone horribly wrong.

Sprawling war comedy «M.A.S.H.» (1971) was his biggest hit, followed by stylish noirs «the Long Goodbye» and «California Split.»

His debut turn behind the camera, however, came a lot later than the scripts that made his name (you can read our rundown of those right here), and while it was hardly the box office blockbuster it may have been hoped the «Lethal Weapon» writer would turn out, it's in fact a great, great film; a hugely enjoyable comedy / murder msytery / noir hybrid romp with plenty of meta flourishes and sideways - winking humour.

That's a lot of mileage from a few low - budget noirs and one comedy, so it's not surprising that this subgenre is beginning to show signs of exhaustion.

Peter Bradshaw: Farrell has brought his A-game to this cracking little comedy - noir written and directed by Martin McDonagh

Not to be confused with this year's dark Wolverine send - off (or its black and white home video edit Logan Noir), this Logan is an original heist comedy from a mystery writer credited as Rebecca Blunt, believed to be a pseudonym.

There are a few gems in the script - including the line, «Life is a comedy written by a sadistic comedy writer» - but the screenwriter is conflicted over whether he's writing a noir, a satire or a romantic comedy.

Billy Wilder, mastermind of that quintessential film noir «Double Indemnity,» comes up with another ingenious insurance swindle in this dark, very funny comedy noir.

«Casablanca,» which expertly melds several key»40s Hollywood genres (drama, comedy, noir, spy thriller, love story) was adapted from a truly lousy play «Everybody Goes to Rick's,» reworked by the Epstein brothers (Julius and Philip) and Howard Koch, and directed by that sometimes underrated master, Michael Curtiz.

The movie: Channeling the best elements of every buddy cop movie and crafting something wholly unique, Shane Black's action comedy noir is simply one of the funniest flicks of recent years.

Coens completists may notice that after Blood Simple, I skipped over what some cite as their second film, the 1986 noir / horror / comedy Crimewave, co-written by the Coens and Raimi and directed by the latter.

My top 5 picks: Preston Sturges» delightful comedy «The Lady Eve» (1941, April 4 - 6), Fritz Lang's noir «Clash By Night» (1952, April 18 - 20), the most underrated Christmas movie ever, «Remember the Night» (1940) and the Douglas Sirk 1956 melodrama «There's Always Tomorrow» (both with Fred MacMurray, on a double feature April 30 - May 1) and Samuel Fuller's 1957 feminist Western «Forty Guns» (May 9 - 11).

Whereas Brick was straight - up film noir that happened to take place in a high school setting, Assassination of a High School President is more along the lines of a John Hughes high school comedy, but with noir flourishes (and naughtier language).

At the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, Yari Film Group premiered Brett Simon «s Assassination of a High School President, a film noir mystery set inside the world of a John Hughes - style High School comedy.

Billy Wilder, for example, was originally dismissed by Sarris as a director without a personal style, and, indeed, Wilder tackled an astonishing range of material, from romantic comedies to film noir («Double Indemnity»), Hollywood tragedy («Sunset Boulevard»), journalistic expose («Ace in the Hole») and classic farce («Some Like It Hot»).

It's a comedy hardboiled noir, a plastic Black Dahlia with something of PT Anderson's Boogie Nights, Altman's version of Long Goodbye and even some weird touches of Lynch as characters get up from car wrecks to stagger around the highway for a bit.

Sunset Blvd. and In a Lonely Place are a bit more out of place, satirizing the film industry with their screenwriter protagonists and having some fun with audience expectations by respectively infusing romance and comedy into the noir form.

Joining Ottman on the score is rising action composer David Buckley («Jason Bourne»), together forming an action - comedy buddy - cop band that spins out spot - on spy jazz grooves, club funk and wah - wah guitar jams with a propulsive orchestra, along with a dramatic slice of film noir moodiness.

Great Directors on TCM: Howard Hawks Even more so than Wilder, Howard Hawks genre - shifted with ease, including westerns and musicals along with comedies, action films, noir and drama.

Tags: Benicio Del Toro, comedy, Eric Roberts, Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Katherine Waterston, Los Angeles, Martin Short, Maya Rudolph, noir, Owen Wilson, Paul Thomas Anderson, Reese Witherspoon, Thomas Pynchon

Great Directors on TCM: Billy Wilder Billy Wilder had an incredible ability to make definitive films in most genres — screwball comedy, film noir, socially conscious drama, bittersweet comedy - drama.

The words «TEXAS REDNECK» jump off the poster for «Killer Joe,» William Friedkin's neo noir / Southern Gothic black comedy written by playwright Tracy Letts and starring Matthew McConaughey as a hitman who's also a cop.

On the minus side, though, «Killer Joe» never feels like much of a noir or much of a comedy.

«Inherent Vice,» Dec. 12 Five - time Oscar - nominated director Paul Thomas Anderson has adapted Thomas Pynchon's novel about a Los Angeles detective during the drug - addled era of the»70s and his search for his missing, former girlfriend for this part crime comedy, part noir film.

With its momentary fits of comedy and noir banter («It's a perfect moon for last rites.»)

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.

How about the movie lots of folks think is Hollywood's greatest comedy — 1959's «Some Like It Hot,» a funny film with a film - noir pedigree.

Only part film noir — the rest is gangster movie parody and screwball comedy — but noir can be proud to claim even a portion of the greatest American sound comedy.

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang works as a buddy cop picture, a noir, and a straight - up comedy.

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.

Anderson has worked in a variety of genres — noir, screwball comedy, historical epic, and straight - up relationship drama — but his films always bear his distinctive fingerprints: sharply drawn characters (some of whom are uneasily at odds with the world around them); a sense of humor filtered through dark situations; and a stable of actors with whom he works regularly.