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It plays like a pulp noir thriller by way of a road movie of the damned, marinated in mescal and left to rot in the desert sun.
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Academy Award - winning director Boyle (last seen directing the opening ceremonies at the London Olympics) bounces around from genre to genre, but his upcoming art heist thriller Trance probably hews closest to his first feature, the small - scale modern noir Shallow Grave (which was also written by John Hodge).
Dakota Johnson is set to join Andrew Garfield in the Los Angeles set noir crime thriller, Under the Silver Lake directed and written by David Robert Mitchell.
Yet by framing these controversial manoeuvres as a suspenseful, noir - tinged thriller, Spielberg forces self - examination when it comes to the self - lacerating pleasures of state - sponsored blood revenge.
Here is something most neo-noir miss: the classic noir weren't just super-stylized thrillers or sex dramas (though many were), they were psychological portraits of a nation wounded by war and horrified by the dawning Atomic Age.
Also opening today (in a limited release) and very highly recommended: «We Need to Talk About Kevin» by Lynne Ramsay, a thriller in which neo noir meets New Age parenting.
Starring Tye Sheridan (X-Men Apocalypse, Ready Player One) and directed by Christopher Smith (Triangle, Creep) tense, stylish noir thriller Detour comes to cinemas and...
«Casablanca,» which expertly melds several key»40s Hollywood genres (drama, comedy, noir, spy thriller, love story) was adapted from a truly lousy play «Everybody Goes to Rick's,» reworked by the Epstein brothers (Julius and Philip) and Howard Koch, and directed by that sometimes underrated master, Michael Curtiz.
Akira Kurosawa wasn't known for film noir or crime thrillers, but he did do a genre drive - by back in 1963.
Nicholas Ray's emotionally charged adaptation of the Dorothy B. Hughes thriller In a Lonely Place is a brilliant, turbulent mix of suspenseful noir and devastating melodrama, fueled by a powerhouse performance from Humphrey Bogart, who plays a gifted but washed - up screenwriter who becomes the prime suspect in a Tinseltown murder.
The project is described as a «modern - day noir crime thriller set in Los Angeles,» and it's based on an original script written by Mitchell himself.
The Hitch - Hiker is a tense crime thriller, directed by Ida Lupino — the first female filmmaker to break into the American mainstream with a film noir.
«Le Cercle Rouge,» will essentially kick off the film noir lineup on Friday and will be followed by «The Eavesdropper,» an espionage thriller directed and co-written by Thomas Kruithof.
The former is a supernatural thriller whereas Giallo, a genre established by Mario Bava in 1967 with the visually sumptuous KILL, BABY... KILL, may invoke the spirit but leans heavily toward the murder - mystery elements of noir.
Frank & Lola, a romantic noir thriller starring Michael Shannon and Imogen Poots, is directed by Matthew Ross (not to be confused with Captain Fantastic director Matt Ross), who will attend the screening.
Whether she is defined for audiences by Rita Hayworth as the hair - flipping title character in the 1946 noir Gilda or by Scarlett Johansson as an irresistible, ethereal being in the 2013 sci - fi drama Under the Skin, male film characters have had plenty to concern themselves over when a potential love interest starts batting her eyelashes or — as Oscar - winning actress Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook) does in her new spy thriller — bares all for the uncomfortable assignment at hand.
Any genre you want is used to tell the story — from film noir to romance, action thrillers to comedy — the only thing that remains absolutely consistent is that they are all set in the City by the Bay.
Noir expert Richard Fleischer specialized in true - crime movies («Compulsion,» «The Boston Strangler») and this is one of his best: a chilling realistic thriller modeled on the famous case of British serial killer Dr. John Christie (brilliantly underplayed by Richard Attenborough), and the hapless man he frames for one of his murders, (a brilliant job by John Hurt).
RICHARD WIDMARK By Kent Jones Nominated for an Oscar for his debut performance as the giggling killer in Kiss of Death, he escaped typecasting and went on to become an icon of driven, intense postwar America masculinity in some of the key Westerns, noirs, and thrillers of the Fifties and Sixties.
Pilot Theatre and York Theatre Royal present a brand new adaptation of Graham Greene's classic noir thriller Brighton Rock, written by Bryony Lavery, directed by Esther Richardson, with new music by the composer Hannah Peel.
Pilot Theatre and York Theatre Royal present a brand new adaptation of Graham Greene's classic noir thriller Brighton Rock, written by Bryony Laver...
This unrelentingly paced mix of thriller and straight - up horror (watch for friction burns on your page - turning finger) blends the cinematic delights of tough - guy noir with such smart - mouthed gore fests as Reanimator and Army of Darkness, seasoned by soupçons of Gaimanian romanticism and Koontzian sentiment.
For fans of Southern noir: Natchez Burning by Greg Iles Iles makes his comeback with this standout thriller, the first installment of his incendiary new trilogy featuring former prosecutor turned Natchez Mayor Penn Cage.