Sentences with phrase «noir film genre»

Not exact matches

Then the trench coat started to be worn by protagonists of the film noir genre in the 1940s.

A lurid enigma, erotic noir as tragedy, Bastards is a film that burrows into genre like a parasite, while probing the darkest alcoves of the human heart.

[A] descendant of film noir, the film resorts to classic motifs of the genre to suggest an inescapable and destructive presence, destiny, which comes hand in hand with errors in the political and social system.

With shadowy, black - and - white production, a slow - burning jazz soundtrack, and a wide ensemble of characters that runs the gamut of crime movie archetypes, Dick Hopper serves as a love letter to film noir, even as it skewers the genre with no mercy.

2» pays homage to a variety of genres — spaghetti Western, film noir, blaxploitation (after all, this is Tarantino we're talking about), kung fu — while actually managing to hammer home a pretty solid, heartfelt story.

Critic Consensus: Though this ambitious noir crime - drama captures the atmosphere of its era, it suffers from subpar performances, a convoluted story, and the inevitable comparisons to other, more successful films of its genre.

By virtue of such economical tension exercises as 99 River Street (1949), Tight Spot (1955), and the superb The Phenix City Story (1955), Karlson was embraced by the cognoscenti as a master purveyor of the «film noir» genre.

Attempts to do for «The Big Sleep» - type detective movie and film - noir genre what «Blair Witch» did for horror films.

Other films noirs of recent vintage can't seem to do much but ape the manners, the cynicism, and the prevailing sense of doom that typify the genre.

Storytelling-wise, the film really fails to achieve any momentum, even though it is working, mostly, from the template of the film - noir genre.

Filtering a piquantly feminist perspective on Iranian gender relations through a mesh of genre influences including low - rent horror, film noir and even spaghetti western, here's a fantasy underworld with entirely its own woozy, sinister flavour.

Over recent years, the film noir genre has largely served as a reference point for filmmakers, who dress up their movies with snappy dialogue and / or complex, violent stories but neglect the genre's bleakness.

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 Asphalt Jungle (1950)(Criterion, Blu - ray, DVD) is one of John Huston's rare forays into the genre that would later be called film noir.

Where «Blade Runner» dressed its questions up in the gloss of film noir, «Blade Runner 2049» is more ready to run outside of genre trappings — although they're still there — and settle on long sequences tackling K's response to authority, sexuality and more.

THE MAN WHO WAS N'T THERE A faithful resurrection of the film noir genre, The Coen Brothers» The Man Who Wasn't There is a shoo - in for Roger Deakins's fifth Oscar nomination as best cinematographer.

The film garnered rave reviews for its layered psychodrama within a noir genre piece, as well as its complex, interwoven metaphors involving survivor trauma, denial in the face of unspeakable horror, and the instability of love.

This brave appraisal of fear and uncertainty elevates The Stranger above any run - of - the - mill detective story, qualifying it as a horror - tinged film noir, even if it doesn't always evenly line up with the genre.

A noir film that strips the genre to its diamond core, the film is also infused with its protagonist's quiet, contemplative, yearning romanticism.

I didn't mean that I hope there's a wave of remakes, just that there might be an interest in classic American genres like film noir and the western once again.

The picture might be the most overt iteration of film noir as a genre about emasculation ever put to celluloid, and trying to puzzle out whether Waldo's for real and chief gumshoe McPherson (Andrews) buys any of his honeyed hooey constitutes a good portion of what's fun and maddening in equal measure about it.

For 20 years, audiences in Hollywood and in other cities have thrilled to Noir City, the premier cinema festival devoted to what we call film noir — the movie genre that introduced us to a lot of the images above, and many mNoir City, the premier cinema festival devoted to what we call film noir — the movie genre that introduced us to a lot of the images above, and many mnoir — the movie genre that introduced us to a lot of the images above, and many more.

Dahl's direction is superb, melding a classic film noir tone with a variety of dark red colors and hues — giving The Last Seduction an unsettled feeling of urgency not common to the noir genre.

Ernest Tidyman's script tweaks buddy - cop stereotypes by compelling the audience to identify with a bigoted and obsessive loose cannon whose actions grow increasingly questionable, and subverts the tidy moral resolution demanded by genre convention, reflecting a darker, more ambivalent worldview, simultaneously hearkening back to the post-WWII high tide of film noir and resonant with Vietnam - era anxieties and tensions.

The one certainty is that WWII served as a catalyst for the organic evolution of the genre's texture, and that noir remains to this day one of the most popular film styles for revision, emulation, and in the case of The Man Who Wasn't There, resurrection.

The Lady From Shanghai — Orson Welles's craziest film appropriately ends in a funhouse Hall Of Mirrors, as that's exactly what it does to the film noir genre: twist and distort and exaggerate it almost to the point of parody at the very peak of its popularity.

Akira Kurosawa wasn't known for film noir or crime thrillers, but he did do a genre drive - by back in 1963.

Misguided obsession is elemental to film noir, a genre that Blood Simple was credited with reanimating upon its appearance in 1984.

The film noir put out inky tendrils in many existent genres, forever altering even the Western (Anthony Mann, perhaps the most gifted director associated with the new vision, the new mode, also began his remarkable series of James Stewart Westerns in this era: Winchester» 73, The Naked Spur, etc.); and certainly its temperamental affinities to the science - fiction film, a prime manifestation of the McCarthy era, are worth a nod.

Part cat - and - mouse Western, part film noir thriller, part road trip flick, the film defies genres and expectations, making for an unparalleled, full - throttle ride.

A genre long associated with seediness and perversion, film noir receives a surprisingly clean and feminine reworking in Roder's beautiful debut (the color palette and exotic imagery are reason enough to check this one out).

We at Film Noir Blonde are very pleased that film noir's popularity continues to grow and so our favorite genre was well represented at the fest, which ran March 26 - 29 in HollywNoir Blonde are very pleased that film noir's popularity continues to grow and so our favorite genre was well represented at the fest, which ran March 26 - 29 in Hollywnoir's popularity continues to grow and so our favorite genre was well represented at the fest, which ran March 26 - 29 in Hollywood.

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.

In fact, he claims to have created a whole new genre with U-Turn; not «film noir», but «film soleil».

Had this been made ten years earlier when film noir was still popular, it would have most likely done well and been considered an effective example of the noir genre.

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.

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.

WHY: Shane Black is to buddy cop films what Raymond Chandler is to hard - boiled crime novels, and his latest movie, the retro detective noir «The Nice Guys,» is arguably his best entry in the genre since redefining the buddy cop formula three decades earlier with «Lethal Weapon.»

As with film noir, there are some films that I just consider classics but that aren't really genre films.

A character like Marina touches on the film noir, which is one of the noblest genres.

A very low - budget film noir from the end of that genre's initial period of popularity, 1959's City of Fear seems a criminal carrying a canister of radioactive material (which he believes to be something else) around Los Angeles, threatening himself and others.

It's exciting, well made, and feels original — even if it takes it cues from iconic genres like the western and film noir.

The New York Film Academy is a purveyor of great cinematography of any genre, but faculty staff at the filmmaking school particularly enjoy a good film noir, especially when using it to teach students the nuances of expressionism.

And much of that can be owed to the mining of the film noir and the western genres.

Hill's film effectively shaped the genre where noir meets car, and turned the cinematic car - chase into the ultimate art form.

The familiar «noir,» (defined as a genre of crime film or fiction characterized by cynicism, fatalism and moral ambiguity) is made to feel new here - and it does - thanks to its anchor lead actor, Krisztián Kolovratnik.

Tight plotting and Mann's mastery of the expressive noir blacks and whites make this an above average genre film.

«Murder, My Sweet» is a superb flick and a defining work of the film noir genre, thanks to Edward Dmytryk's directorial flair, top - notch acting and a terrific John Paxton script (based on Raymond Chandler's novel «Farewell, My Lovely»).

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.

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.