Sentences with phrase «noir influence»

The game's visual style is unique and brings that detective noir influence into the game.

The clean lines and high - contrast noir influence are a sharp and welcome change from the grimy, overly cluttered appearance of the Arkham games.

It has its whimsical moments, but it definitely shows its film noir influences.

Not exact matches

Though among such shows it's the darkly noir Batman from the 1990s that gets the most attention (it won four Emmys and was nominated for several more), I was struck by the sophistication of The Spectacular Spider - Man, an anime - influenced relaunch of Marvel's famous webslinger that premiered in 2008 and ran for two seasons.

Kiss Me Deadly by Robert Weston Review looking at the film's archetypal noir style and influence.

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.

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.»

The main characters and elegant noir atmosphere may be heavily derived from Jean - Pierre Melville's Bob le Flambeur («a great fucking movie,» Anderson gushes on the DVD commentary track), but Anderson is too smart to let his influences get the better of him.

From 1991's Los Angeles screenwriter drama Barton Fink to 2001's noir pastiche The Man Who Wasn't There, these brothers wear their old school influences proudly.

Hot on the heels of 1981's Body Heat, One Deadly Summer follows suit by updating noir conventions and archetypes, but while Lawrence Kasdan intensifies «noirishness» by amping the dial to 11, Becker integrates even more cinematic influences and engages with lingering post-WWII anxieties in a manner that broadens, rather than distills, the film's revisionist stakes.

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

It is difficult to underestimate or quantify the extent to which the pre-WWII tumult occurring in these often - exiled filmmakers» homelands affected the «hard - boiled» look and notions of noir, and on the other side, how much the organized hooliganism arising in the United States and the gritty literature of Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, and Dashiell Hammett in the»20s and»30s influenced the end result.

With its eclectic range of influences, Ghost Dog is shown to be symptomatic of noir's self - referential nature, but also its broad ranging international manifestations.

It quickly gained a cult following, however, and its influence on contemporary sci - fi and film noir has been extensive.

I've long been in love with film noir — those sumptuous, cynical tales of the darker side of life, an American cinematic phenomenon that started in the 1940s and was greatly influenced by German Expressionism and French Poetic Realism.

Reservoir Dogs, True Romance and Pulp Fiction (the first two I watched back to back one weekend afternoon, after my friends learned I'd never seen a Tarantino film; I had heard he'd won the Palme d'Or, but didn't know he'd made any other movies) demanded we familiarize ourselves with their influences: film noir, Howard Hawks, Jean - Luc Godard (one of our favorite pass - times was driving around to all the video stores in town looking for a copy of Breathless.

Its influences are the hard - boiled 1950s noirs of Robert Aldrich, Raoul Walsh and André de Toth, plus the grindhouse thrillers of the 1970s and»80s, which involved a nasty ratcheting - up of those earlier films» lurid pleasures.

The influence of this definitive film noir (with its typical conventions of «Venetian blind» lighting and voice - over narration) can be found in other countless imitations ever since - such as The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) and (1981), Body Heat (1981)(with Richard Crenna as the murdered husband and Kathleen Turner as the murderess accomplice), and The Last Seduction (1994)(with Linda Fiorentino), but it has never been surpassed.

In the former, she returned to Europe to work with French director Jean - Jacques Beneix (making his followup to the international hit «Diva») on a noir - influenced melodrama, based on a David Goodis novel, about a dockworker (Gerard Depardieu) obsessed with getting revenge on the man who raped his sister and drove her to suicide and the new woman in his life (guess who) who may hold the key to either his salvation or destruction.

Nightfall — Fine film noir from Jacques Tourneur that was an obvious influence on Fargo.

Film master Ingmar Bergman once said that his major early cinematic influences were «the film noir directors, Howard Hawks, Raoul Walsh and Michael Curtiz.»

Unrepentant and casual about killing for a living, Ladd's performance is classic noir; it influenced Jean - Pierre Melville's «Le Samourai» from 1967.

Also interwoven is a noir - influenced narrative involving femme fatale Qi» ra (Emilia Clarke) and the wealthy, irascible Dryden Vos (Paul Bettany).

It affirms the breadth of the Coens» accomplishment here that in presenting a sharp sociological treatise on a «lost» decade in our recent culture, they've also managed a cogent and fascinating analysis of Raymond Chandler and the influence of noir on the way we interpret the existential crises of modern, fully - acculturated Man.

The Hollywood director Martin Scorsese reveals how Carol Reed's classic British noir from 1949 has influenced him and why it feels as fresh as ever.

With a firm influence in the film noir genre with classic Japanese role playing games, the player inquisitiveness will determine the storyline and the other character's motivations much like L.A Noire.

William Gibson's early work, despite its incalculable influence, still throbs with the low - level hum of awestruck Japanophilia subsumed into equally stylish noir tropes.»

His influences have emerged from film or painting, with the lighting in German Expressionist cinema and film noir a major inspiration.

As Michael Leja has described, their influence ranges all the way from Abstract Expressionism to film noir.

It's a line Dylan presumably appropriated from Don Siegel's dark 1958 noir, The Lineup, a fact Jonathan Lethem insightfully pointed out in his 2007 essay «The Ecstasy of Influence.

French artist, Saâdane Afif open's his first solo exhibition in a German museum, Anthologie de l'humour noir, a work that engages the African influences on the European avant - garde while linking it to modern French art and literature.

Heavily influenced by film noir aesthetics, Just reveres the films of iconic directors such as Bob Fosse, Lars von Trier, Alfred Hitchock, David Lynch and Elia Kazan.

Drawing from cultural movements including Négritude and the Harlem Renaissance, the show expands on Négritude founding father Léopold Sedal Sénghor's 1939 essay Ce que l'homme noir apporte, and its idea of «rhythm being at the center of Africa's system of thought and experience, influencing the continent and diaspora's cultural production.»

A maelstrom of references and influences from vaudeville to film noir to modern dance, Sullivan's appropriation of classic filming styles, period costumes, and contemporary spaces (such as corporate offices) draws the viewer's attention away from traditional narratives and towards an examination of performance itself.

The Japanese woodblock - print influence is evident in Grande Vague Bleue, for example, and in Grande Vague Noir.

In the past his colors choices have been influenced by film noir, dime novels, and snowy landscapes.