Noir style refers to a specific type of storytelling or visual aesthetic characterized by dark themes, shadowy lighting, and morally ambiguous characters often found in crime fiction or film.
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film noir style makes this a classic detective story that'll certainly stand the test of time.
I loved the look of the film and it really has a
very noir style about it which the original doesn't.
It's shot in
true noir style with wonderful touches of vibrant colour throughout it's monochrome palette.
I am definitely looking forward to picking it up in the next few weeks as I'm a sucker for a really good film
noir styled detective story.
Is this an intriguing film
noir style of mobster flicks, or should it be wearing concrete shoes and swimmin» with the fishes?
Both of these
Film Noir styled movies are based on the characters of Frank Miller's graphic novels.
Two R - rated films releasing to home video this week as well are 22 Jump Street starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum and the film
noir styled movie Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.
First released 15 years ago this week, Ocean's Eleven took the
slick noir style Steven Soderbergh applied to Out Of Sight and brought it — and George Clooney — to his update of the classic Rat Pack heist film.
Told in a swanky black and
white noir style, Blues & Bullets follows Elliot as he looks to aid the biggest mobster he's ever brought to justice — the infamous Al Capone.
The Skirball Cultural Center will also hold an online photo contest as a way to gather visitor snapshots of L.A. neighborhoods captured in
classic noir style.
The Baron Of Arizona — Samuel Fuller's second film is a step forward from his first, with more flashes of his
distinctive noir style.
Directed in a crisply dark
noir style by Alexander Mackendrick (The Ladykillers), with cinematography by James Wong Howe.
Overloaded with Miller's
signature noir style, «The Spirit» was an exercise in scenery chewing and aesthetic fetishism.
The great pluses of black ensemble is the
French noir style touch, it's ladylike, sultry and timeless!
The Darkness II stands out visually with its distinctive
graphic noir style, and it is the only first person shooter to feature Quad - Wielding: the ability to simultaneously utilize four different weapons.
Shane Black and Anthony Bagarozzi's screenplay has a distinct
neo noir style.
Less pious and much more angry than the big Oscar winner, it uses the
classical noir style very well, but doesn; t really experiment with it the way some of the other noirs this year do.
Director Robert Siodmak helped
define noir style and in this flick you can see what an unerring eye he had.
Why it was left in the dust is something of a mystery, even with the critical backlash against its
neon noir stylings and romanticized gangster movie tropes.
«Sin City» is a high concept tour de force rendering of Frank Miller's wickedly sexy and grotesque graphic - novel - homage to the
hardboiled noir style of Dashiell Hammett and Mickey Spillane.
An alternate reality crime saga featuring a
heavy noir style and focusing on Elliot Ness and the mob?
Max Payne 3's Brazilian setting stops Rockstar's sequel from realising the series»
trademark noir style, but if you're a fan of jumping around in slow motion and sliding down walls while peppering foes with bullets, you could do a lot worse for # 3.85.
Put the clues together and you'll unlock two
Noir Style Filters, which will give your Story Mode gameplay and Snapmatic photos the feel of a gritty old school crime classic.
With this selection, the viewer is offered an opportunity to confront these directions which range from the painterly, as seen in Bill Henson's haunting portraits, to the Craigie Horsefield's film
noir style imagery, and to the conceptual work of sculptor / photographer Dan Graham.
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noir style of mobster flicks, or should it be wearing... Read On
The great cinematographer John Alton gives a
slick noir style to the location shooting, anticipating Jules Dassin's The Naked City, perhaps the best example of this sub-genre, made the next year.
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).
The tone of 1940s Los Angeles is wonderfully recaptured in the
film noir style with superb attention to detail, both visually and audibly.
I love their edgy designs at an affordable price point,
these Noir style ones have been a staple of mine ever since I got them.
Is an episodic history about Elliot Ness, with
a noir style, good script, nice graphics, wonderful music, and the most important thing, a game that you can not begin without finish it.
He brought a dark and gritty film
noir style to his characters and he attempts to do the same with THE SPIRIT.
A smart, sharp and outragiously weird crime - thriller that «s loaded with a great sense of classic film
noir style, ideas and star - power.
The noir style is really cool and well used in this game.
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.
Is an episodic history about Elliot Ness, with
a noir style, good
Wilder trades Cain's sun - rot imagery for conventional film
noir stylings, but the atmosphere of sexual entrapment survives.
A standout scene involving dancing, slow - mo, and a Veronica Mars pretending to be in the good time party spirit while secretly scoping out her next «hit» (murder suspects), captures
the noir style perfectly, and underscores a new layer this film brings to the character and series, which is that Veronica may be an adrenaline junkie, and she is potentially embarking on self - destructive behaviour by returning to Neptune... and Logan (Jason Dohring).
Its first screen incarnation came in 1946, when director Robert Siodmak unleashed The Killers, helping to define the film
noir style and launching the careers of Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner in this archetypal masterpiece
The film has some of the greatest black and white images ever filmed, dramatic lighting and sharp shadows, everything you think of as
the noir style, only instead of an urban crime drama, it's used to powerful effect to create a nightmare of a fairy tale.