Sentences with phrase «noir film in»

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.

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.

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As titillating as it might be to read Andreessen's text messages to Zuckerberg, however — in which the former quotes from a 1950's film noir with Burt Lancaster, remarking «The cat's in the bag and the bag's in the river» — the whole thing feels like a bit of a sideshow.

I thought maybe the scenario was going in a definite film noir direction after reading the title.

The late Gloria Grahame, the bad girl of film noir, blazed up the screen as the local temptress in It's a Wonderful Life, the girl who couldn't say no -LRB-...)

Tomorrow's films (free, but first come, first served) are Paris Noir, a documentary on black American poets, writers, artists and others living in Paris in the 1920s and»30s, and When Voice Rise, a documentary on desegregation in 1950s Bermuda.

In the space of a few days Theresa May has discovered that the UK's role in the so called special relationship is the equivalent of following a «femme fatale» in a film noiIn the space of a few days Theresa May has discovered that the UK's role in the so called special relationship is the equivalent of following a «femme fatale» in a film noiin the so called special relationship is the equivalent of following a «femme fatale» in a film noiin a film noir.

It would also not look out of place in a black and white film noir.

Graduate students in the department also create other outreach videos including, most recently, a film noir series about El Nino's effects on sardines.

The retro - fit sateen Preen dress chooses for the Giffoni Film Festival in Giffoni Vana Piani, Italy, feels pretty film noir, especially when paired with side - swept bangs.

In order to show the film noir themes and works of reference Hitchcock strong and rich women attractive image, the photographer Mikael Jansson Nicole Kidman will portray a sexy protagonist, embodies the brand has always been confident ornate style.

Perched broodingly on a satin strewn bed, clutching the new CATHERINE bag in luxurious black softbox leather and leopard print pony, Zimmerman channels French film noir heroines, wearing vixen - like FLORA a buttery soft suede, black open - toe lattice - style boot.

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

The film is laughable in a noir way, predictable and is completed saved by the hotness.

A glamorous, alluring entertainment that revels in the artifice of Hollywood while exposing its corrupt heart, L.A. Confidential pays stylish homage to some of the great film noirs of the distant and recent past.

Marilyn Monroe is the luscious femme fatale in this film noir travelogue shot on the US / Canadian border.

The evocation of that old film noir feeling is hugely effective here: Dad telling his freshly - bribed son «You can't buy dignity,» the fantastic slow zoom on a love scene reflected in a two - way mirror, even the beguiling torch singer.

[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.

The problem with the early episodes — written and directed by Jim Mickle, who also made the film «Cold in July,» based on a Lansdale novel — has to do with a slow pace and a sameness that muffle the humor and menace we expect from smart noir.

He's made a few award winning short films and completed a PhD in film noir.

A lot funnier than you remember it, Carol Reed's immortal 1949 film noir seems to exist in the space between two worlds: an earlier time when thrillers were mostly serious affairs, and a future one, when such supremely witty entertainments felt passé.

It's not top - shelf Fritz Lang, nor is it top - level Graham Greene, but as an exercise in World War II intrigue with a smidgen of film noir thrown in, Ministry of Fear gets the job done.

Hanson delivers something ever rarer in film culture, not a new film noir but an old - fashioned total movie, somehow of a single piece.

The actor was busiest during the «film noir» mid-to-late 1940s, playing several weasely villain roles; it is hard to forget the image of Corey, in the role of a slimy stoolie in Burt Lancaster's Brute Force, being tied to the front of a truck and pushed directly into a hail of police bullets.

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 Henry Hathaway's Technicolor film noir, Niagara Falls serves as an apt metaphor for the destructive power of out - of - control carnal and murderous obsessions.

As in a film noir, a single decision in this film can lead to unimagined consequences, and so it is with Captain Kang and his crew.

Rian Johnson's first feature was the well received, low - budget indie titled «Brick» (2005), which told a high - school story in a film noir style, narrated by Gordon - Levitt.

Kelly Lynch (Drugstore Cowboy) and Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill) costar in this gritty and unpredictable tale of redemption in the hard - boiled tradition of classic film noir.

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.

This film noir from director Billy Wilder tells the tale of a former big shot reporter, Chuck Tatum (Kirk Douglas), heading to Albuquerque for one last chance in the journalism game.

From here on in it becomes far more satisfying as Cagney comes into his own as his trademark no - nonsense tough guy and some atmospheric location based camera work nicely combines wartime bravado with some visuals and themes that would not look out of place in a film noir.

How she ensnares them is intriguing to the point of being considered film noir and how she devours them is one of the coolest things you're going to see in a film this year, if not ever.

In a 1920s film noir dreamscape, you must become your shadow to help a little girl heal her troubled family.

DICK DINMAN & EDDIE MULLER DISPENSE A DOUBLE DOSE OF DANA: The Warner Archive has just released on Blu - ray legendary director Fritz Lang's last two American - made edge - of - your - seat thrillers WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS and BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT in their original wide screen SuperScope incarnations and popular film noir author and TCM host Eddie Muller rejoins producer / host Dick Dinman as they both salute the unjustly underrated star of both films, Dana Andrews.

Intercut in the fantastical story of Martin's character are scenes from classic mystery and noir films.

Anderson's seventh feature film is a groovy, richly funny stoner romp that has less in common with «The Big Lebowski» than with the strain of fatalistic,»70s - era California noirs («Chinatown,» «The Long Goodbye,» «Night Moves») in which the question of «whodunit?»

Back in his feature debut, Brick, writer - director Rian Johnson was content to bring deep shades of film noir to the hallways of high school.

The fusing of puzzles, Metroidvania and a the film noir aesthics create a very alien, yet familiar world to travel in.

This film noir from director Billy Wilder tells the tale of a former big shot reporter, Chuck Tatum (Kirk Douglas), heading to Albuquerque for one last chance in the

Recruited by an old chum (Peter Boyle) to help find an exotic prostitute missing in Chinatown, Hammett enlists his implausibly gorgeous neighbor (Marilu Henner) to play Girl Friday as he matches wits with colorful actors including Jack Nance («Eraserhead» and other David Lynch works), David Patrick Kelly (whose strangled voice is an interesting counterpart to his iconic «Come out to play - yi - yay» taunt from «The Warriors»), Roy Kinnear and a few old - timers from film noir's heyday (the scene with Sylvia Sidney is especially good).

I could call it a film noir, except that the sun never sets in the film.

Though well acted and beautifully crafted, «Devil in a Blue Dress» falls short of being something special because, although the concept of an African American film noir is commendably original and the background climate - of racial prejudice and the post-WWII hangover in L.A. - is fascinating, the actual mystery is pretty run - of - the - mill.

In the neon - lit film noir world, Margot plays a femme fatale character named Annie who lives a dangerous double life.

I'd be tempted to call Small Town Crime a film noir, but it was shot in sunny Utah.

«Nightcrawler» is a great Los Angeles film and a great media film and a great noir, powered by a supremely creepy performance from Jake Gyllenhaal in what is perhaps the best work of his eclectic career.

The sci - fi noir that is Blade Runner has since become one of the most iconic sci - fi films in recent history thanks to the direction of Ridley Scott and an enthralling performance by Harrison Ford.

Two examples that come to mind — Stephen Frears's 1990 The Grifters and James Foley's 1990 After Dark, My Sweet — have in common that they're too - faithful adaptations of the books they're based on, both of them novels by Jim Thompson, one of the great sources for film noir.

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 noiIn 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 noiin the form of Australian filmmaker and stuntman Nash Edgerton, whose feature debut, The Square, is a brilliantly twisty, gritty contemporary film noir.

And rightly so as film noir marks a distinct period in American filmmaking that has its own visual flair and unique tendencies.