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"noir film" is a type of movie that typically has a dark and gritty atmosphere, with a focus on crime, mystery, and morally complex characters. These films often use black-and-white visuals, shadowy lighting, and cynical themes to create a mood of suspense and despair.
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The music throughout the film has the air of a
classic noir film, which is one of the elements that works to subtly bring the two genres together without feeling forced.
The Man Who Wasn't There is the Coen homage to the great film
noir films of the 40s Hollywood, and for the most part plays along those lines much of the way.
Bee, a painter, editor, and book artist, has recently worked on a series of oil paintings depicting colorized black - and - white film stills
from noir films, such as Pickpocket (1959), Criss Cross (1949) and Trouble Ahead (1935).
Calvino Noir Limited pays homage to classic Bogart
noir films with a stealth game set in a perpetually wet 1930s Germany.
10:15 pm — TCM — Double Indemnity Quite probably the most definitive film
noir film in existence (vying only with The Big Sleep in my head, anyway) has insurance salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) being seduced by bored housewife Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) and convinced by her to help murder her husband for the insurance money.
7:00 am — TCM — Kiss Me Deadly Fairly
iconic noir film, with hard - boiled action, nuclear paranoia, and one of the more memorable non-Hitchcock McGuffins in movie history.
9:00 am — TCM — Double Indemnity Quite probably the most definitive
film noir film in existence (vying only with The Big Sleep in my head, anyway) has insurance salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) being seduced by bored housewife Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) and convinced by her to help murder her husband for the insurance money.
11:30 pm / 10:30 pm — TCM — Kiss Me Deadly I actually didn't love this well - respected hard - boiled
noir film as much as I wanted to when I saw it last year, but I'm throwing it in here because it is reasonably solid, and one of those films you have to see to count yourself a competent film noir fan.
It's very much like a good noir mystery or murder novel, or an updated,
upscale noir film, just in color, and a little shorter.»
While Anon doesn't boast a superior story, it's engaging in the way many B -
grade noir films from the «40s and «50s were — pulpy excursions into the dark side of human nature with hard - bitten heroes and duplicitous femmes fatale.
I too love and respect Paul Thomas Anderson's work but it seems that he was trying to make some sort of «
stoner noir film» here, but maybe he was inhaling too much wacky tobaccy himself while making it!
David Robert Mitchell is writing and directing the
crime noir film which is set in Los Angeles.
The Oscar - winning screenplay is actually based on several titles in James Ellroy's series of chronological thriller novels (including the title volume, The Big Nowhere, and White Jazz)-- a compelling blend of L.A. history and pulp fiction that has earned it comparisons to the greatest of all
Technicolor noir films, Chinatown.
China Moon by Robert Weston This example of a
contemporary noir film stars Ed Harris, Madeleine Stowe, and Benicio Del Toro.
The Canyons, a
bad noir film, is pretty much what you would expect from a Bret Easton Ellis script starring Lindsay Lohan, getting most of its play sandwiched in between Real Sex 17 and Red Shoe Diaries on whatever cable channel needs late - night filler programming.
When 19 - year - old aspirant drummer Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller) goes to the movies with his Pennington High School writer / teacher father (Paul Reiser) there's Rififi on the hoarding, the 1955
French noir film directed by blacklisted émigré filmmaker Jules Dassin.
Today turned out to be a weirdly good day for TV adaptations of Oscar -
nominated noir films; close behind Fox ordering a pilot for a TV series version of Ben Affleck's Gone Baby Gone, Deadline reports that CBS has granted a pilot order for L.A. Confidential.
Chapter 3, «Film noir style and the arts of dying», charts the development of noir «style» and the cross-pollination between cultures and cinemas with particular emphasis on the relationship between key
hitman noir films such as Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki, 1967), Le samouraï (Jean - Pierre Melville, 1967) and The Killer (John Woo, 1989) before concluding with an analysis of Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch, 1999).
Antonio Campos: It's a
faithful noir film about a contract killer, from a time when not many films were made like that.
Campos praises the stylized off - camera hits, the economy of shots, and Edwards's lead performance in this B -
level noir film, shot in eight days.
Max Irons and Margot Robbie star in the negligible science -
fiction noir film «Terminal.»
Adapted by Tim Krabbé from his 1984 Dutch novel The Golden Egg, it is reminiscent of the few
Scandinavian noir films I've seen, but has a distinct identity of its own that reflects the time and place it was made.
A suave and
sophisticated noir film moved from the shadowy backstreets to the broad daylight of a public high school, Brick is as spellbinding as it is original.
9:00 am — Fox Movie — Nightmare Alley Fox didn't make too
many noir films, and this one just barely sneaks in by virtue of... some high contrast lighting here and there?
«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.
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.
The Harfords» apartment calls to mind an Otto
Preminger noir film of the 40s or 50s, and the costume orgy harks all the way back to silent cinema — not to mention Georges Franju's Judex — in its ceremonial intensity.
Ray Harryhausen's creature drawings; How hollywood killed death; Live - coverage of Hateful Eight reading;
Masterful noir films; A short movie.
«A celebration of youthful irreverence, of adventure, and the quest for the best diner food across America», the design references the carefree romanticism of «all - American» road trips — «abstract landscape imagery is peppered with type reminiscent of
old noir films, intimate handwritten script referencing travel notes are added to the mix, imbuing a personal touch.»
She has described the work as «a
seedy noir film that wishes it was an intellectual thriller».
Take an amble around the resorts many shops in search of that perfect souvenir, or perhaps watch a classic
noir film at the open - air cinema.
Cabral, previously known for documentary shorts and for the feature film «Detective Willy» — about a small - town Dominican cop with a love
for noir film — stays with the country of his birth and one that he knows well enough to round up scores of actual prisoners as extras.
Those features, all in HD, begin with an audio commentary by Alain Silver and James Ursini, historians who have recorded tracks for nearly twenty
noir films of the 1940s and»50s.
4:15 am (11th)-- TCM — Kiss Me Deadly Fairly
iconic noir film, with hard - boiled action, nuclear paranoia, and one of the more memorable non-Hitchcock McGuffins in movie history.
On July 14, Kent Westmoreland, head mixologist at Windsor Court's Cocktail Bar, will partner with celebrity guest bartender and host of The Proper Pour Charlotte Voisey of William Grant and Sons to serve special cocktails inspired by
classic noir films and fiction.
A smidgen of originality lies in its being
a noir film with Korean characters: others nothing new, but still a watchable gangster pic.
The writing is pretty darn lacking, the character models look awful and the tone tries to compel
the noir film style, failing terribly to the point that seems a farce.
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.
Intercut in the fantastical story of Martin's character are scenes from classic mystery and
noir films.
A noir film that strips the genre to its diamond core, the film is also infused with its protagonist's quiet, contemplative, yearning romanticism.