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Killer Joe sets the scene for a killer noir, with some killer lines and killer characters, but Friedkin's energy and determination to wrest the story away from the stage and set it free in the cinema deserts him in the final act.

Smokey rooms, smooth jazz and a man with a briefcase: FRAMED has all the components of a noir story shuffled in a really smart puzzle game.

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.

It introduces itself as a noir murder mystery, but seamlessly veers into a story of man in love with a dancer, looking for redemption in his twilight.

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.

He is involved with some dangerous characters who at first seem like important plot factors; later, we suspect Wenders was just throwing in some film noir elements to keep up the interest before getting to his real story, which comes toward the end of this very long film.

This quintessential noir hero walks into a story his archetype is all too familiar with: a pretty girl in trouble and a gangster looking to get paid.

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.

I wouldn't call this an enjoyable film, but making a film noir western with a villain sheriff makes for quite the interesting story.

The great French filmmaker Claire Denis has never shied away from genre, be it noir (No Fear, No Die; Bastards), horror (Trouble Every Day), serial killer stories (I Can't Sleep), or whatever was going on with that Russian organ - harvesting ring in The Intruder.

One of noir master Fritz Lang's last American films and another of his anti-capital punishment stories, but with an unusual twist.

Next up was a film noir must - see: «They Live by Night» (1949, Nicholas Ray), the quintessential young - lovers - on - the - run story, with an appearance by his widow Susan Ray and introduction by Eddie Muller.

Basically, though, the film noir flourished in and reflected a contemporary milieu; films noirs tended to have to do with the world of crime, whether overtly (police and FBI stories, private - eye flicks, gangster stories) or by extension — that is, films in which «the world of crime» proved to be inseparable from the world of nightclubs and cabarets, offices and tenements, cars and homes where private citizens might become, by accident or design, guilty souls.

The result, U-Turn, is a derivative, trite noir that resembles better films and better stories, with Stone trying his best to distract you from that sameness by dangling lots of flashy things and big name actors in small cameos resulting in a melted banana split; very colorful with no substance whatsoever.

A complex and elegant love story that successfully interweaves with a sadistic film - noir.

Brick is probably not a movie that will have strong mainstream appeal, but for those that love independent films, the noir classics, old - fashioned detective stories, or just enjoy seeing something they haven't quite seen before, Rian Johnson's experiment will prove to be a success with you.

Those books and some later titles, Tomato Red (1998) and The Death of Sweet Mister (2001), fit in with a sub-genre identified by Woodrell when he was reviewing Joe Lansdale's Mucho Mojo, calling it «country noir», stories of «dark suspense» set in «rural and small - town America» (1).

But Michael Tolkin's screenplay — and presumably his own novel, which he adapted — is also tricked out with a bogus noir thriller plot full of red herrings and a boringly conventional love story that includes the least interesting character I've ever seen Greta Scacchi play.

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.

Wise, who also directed the noirs «The Set - Up» and «Odds Against Tomorrow» along with many other films (most notably Oscar winners «West Side Story» and «The Sound of Music») started as an editor («Citizen Kane»).

Dark comedy is not an easy genre, and Fargo is the gold standard, blending shocking violence and a noir - ish crime story with comical inept criminals and a perfectly rendered performance from Frances McDormand.

Fleischer leads us into this perverse noir world, but it only dallies with its noir atmosphere and instead turns into a straight mystery story — effectively filmed in a semi-documentary style that emphasizes police procedures over character studies or creating suspense over suspects.

Although it finishes at the bottom, Following gave every indication that Christopher Nolan was a writer / director with a sharp point of view who could weave a complex narrative into a cohesive story — laying the groundwork for a noir film like Memento.

It's a stylish, downbeat noir piece, with good cinematography and an interesting electronic soundtrack, but the story elements never elevate it into much more than passably interesting at times.

In 2015 indie developer SWDTech successfully got funding for Pixel Noir, a pixel - art filled adventure that fuses detective story tropes with JRPG gameplay.

That's not to say that U.S. Marshall Raylan Givens (a role Timothy Olyphant was born to play) still hasn't had his hands full with the usual rotating platter of backcountry criminals, but there's been more of a noir - like detective feel to Season Four's story as Givens worked to uncover the secret behind a decades - old mystery involving a man named Drew Thompson.

To my knowledge this is the only time that a movie principally in the Tamil language took the gold with ensemble performances principally by non-professional actors, knocking out a searing story that is at once a love story, a social drama, a film noir and a genre film.

The sometimes - neglected «Dark Passage,» by writer / director Delmer Daves, has ingredients that result in a noir rapture: Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall leading a terrific cast (Agnes Moorehead shines as a shrew with a penchant for animal prints), a bizarre story, Franz Waxman's score, San Francisco locations and slick cinematography by Sid Hickox — including a nightmare sequence that is still unsettling 65 years later.

Noir cut with wisecracks, thriller leavened with slapstick: these stories of an L.A. guy named Dick whose fist starts to tingle whenever he encounters bad attitude and who gets things done outside the strictures of the law made me laugh out loud.

Briefly, this is the program in which 12 Italian authors were chosen to produce stories for new noir collections in tandem with four established writers.

«Whether they grew - up with characters like The Shadow and The Green Hornet, or they have only just begun their journey into the seedy underbelly of crime noir comics this is a great way to check out some fantastic stories.

With VR Debt Collector, you will step into Lirium's body, see what Lirium sees, and move around in his future - noir world of debt collectors, experiencing the story in a way no screen could capture.

For example, his Pulitzer - winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay offers historical fiction along with a look at the Golden Age of comics, Jewish mysticism, and the importance of family, while The Yiddish Policeman's Union won multiple literary, mystery, and science - fiction awards for its blend of alternate history and noir in a story rich in characters, ideas, and polished prose.

It's a mix of stories from crime fiction noir to paranormal, with my brand of dark humor.

The noir - ish novel is set largely in the first half of the 20th century, and it is salted with the kinds of characters one finds in an Edith Wharton novel, primarily those in Ethan Frome — those kinds of people who are burdened with some lingering illness or deformity and have a story to tell, a compelling story, one from which it is impossible to turn away.

Having said that, she was faced with the challenge of producing a cover that conveyed the gritty sinister feel of a classic crime noir novel with a hint the book was a science fiction story as well.

It has a great noir edge to it, so I came into the game with faint hopes of a story that could hold my interest as much as the first time I watched Se7en, and while the game doesn't begin to touch David Fincher's masterpiece (despite a few nods throughout), I left feeling a whole lot more satisfied than I thought I would.

With all of the core features and nice - to - have systems already built and functioning, Pixel Noir has now around 40 % of the story implemented within the game, including the entire beginning of the story.

I mean there was LA Noir a few years back but it was mostly another game trying to be GTA with a compelling story.

Virginia is a First Person, narrative based, noir adventure game set in the early 1990's with an evident inspiration from 90's television shows such as The X-Files or Twin Peaks, yet developer Variable State still manages to tell a rich and engaging story in their own unique way.

Set in 1920s Paris, with a burlesque - noir carnival style, your journey will follow the story of the little girl Didi and her imaginary acrobatic friend, Dawn.

It makes the game feel less «noir» and more of a grumpy story set in a grumpy city with grumpy people speaking grumpy dialogue, even though the story is the same as Sin City.