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This film feels kind of like what you'd expect from a collision between George Clooney and the Coen brothers: a comical noir thriller with a hefty dose of social commentary.
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A smart, sharp and outragiously weird crime - thriller that «s loaded with a great sense of classic film noir style, ideas and star - power.
L.A. Confidential is a movie bull's - eye: noir with an attitude, a thriller packing punches.
Think Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) reimagined as a coolly elegant, noir - shaded thriller - although with perhaps a little less coherence.
Danluck has great style as a filmmaker that harkens back to the best noir thrillers of yesteryear; she just needs to write a script with the substance to match.
Though he made a pair of low - budget film noirs, Kubrick made his first professional studio movie with The Killing, a tautly - paced heist thriller centered on Johnny Clay, a veteran criminal (Sterling Hayden) planning one last heist before settling down to marriage.
It's a noir - laden thriller in first - person with Peter Weller as a mental patient who may be losing his mind.
As a result, we get a Sci - Fi thriller tinged with Noir (instantly making it my kind of movie), but done on a budget.
Hadi Hajaig follows his low - budget, noir thriller Puritan with Cleanskin, a tense tale of terrorism set in London, which pits two individuals from either side of the terror war divide against each other.
The Intriguante series continues on Jan. 25 with an afternoon double - feature: «Pitfall» (1948, André de Toth), featuring Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott and Jane Wyatt in a classic noir love triangle, and the taut thriller «Criss Cross» (1949, Robert Siodmak), in which a temptress (Yvonne De Carlo) leads her ex (Burt Lancaster) to his doom.
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And so, our choice for the best movie of 2011 is Nicolas Winding Refn's stylish «neon noir» thriller Drive, an adaptation of James Sallis» 2005 novel starring Ryan Gosling as an unnamed Hollywood stunt - man and in - demand getaway driver who finds himself having to deal with the fall - out from a heist gone wrong.
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This is storytelling as symbology, traditional American genres like noir and the thriller picked apart with unsettling aplomb.
The first full day of Sheffield Doc / Fest included world premieres of Magali Pettier's portrait of farming in North Yorkshire Addicted To Sheep, Brian Hill's noir - thriller documentary about a man who confessed to over 30 murders in Sweden The Confessions of Thomas Quick and an EU premiere of Landfill Harmonic following the fortunes of a Paraguayan orchestra with instruments made from rubbish dump materials.
The ads make it look like an action / crime thriller, but it's more a suspenseful noir - ish art film with occasional ultra-violent outbursts.
Brothers in arms The most dementedly elegiac thriller you've ever seen, distilling a lifetime's enthusiasm for American and French film noir, with little Chinese about it apart from the soundtrack and the looks of the three beautiful leads.
Sophie Cookson, best known as Roxy in Matthew Vaughn's Kingsman films, who will join Adam Gillen, Steffan Rhodri and Neve McIntosh - along with the already cast Orlando Bloom - in Tracy Letts's noir comic thriller Killer Joe, which Simon Evans will direct at Trafalgar Studios from May 18.
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.
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.
In this scary little noir quadrangle thriller, Dick Powell, who was one of the better Philip Marlowes, is a sort of lower echelon Walter Neff — an insurance man leading an apparently happy (if slightly dull) life who gets involved with a criminal's sultry girlfriend (Lizabeth Scott).
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.
This harrowing Belgian noir thriller explores the subject of paedophila with great verve and tact.
She'll co-star with Andrew Garfield in what's being described as an LA - based «modern noir crime thriller».
But Bunuel is also a solid commercial filmmaker and he delivers a tight thriller filled with cynicism right out of American film noir and an atmosphere unique to this film.
«Dark Film Mysteries» Details: 1945 - 52, Film Chest Media Rated: Not rated The lowdown: A three - disc set that features 11 film noir thrillers from the 1940s and 1950s, with such stars as Edward G. Robinson, Barbara Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas, Van Heflin, Mickey Rooney, Tom Neal, Orson Welles and Loretta Young.
The film A decade before «Basic Instinct» launched the era of the mainstream erotic thriller, Lawrence Kasdan reinvented film noir for a sophisticated modern audience with this sweaty tale of scheming femmes fatales.
The first trailer has been released for «Terminal,» a new noir thriller starring Margot Robbie as a femme fatale along with Simon Pegg, Max Irons, Dexter Fletcher and Mike Myers.
He will produce Antlers, a supernatural horror pic that Hostiles director Scott Cooper will helm, before setting his sights on his own directorial gig: a remake of Fox's 1947 noir thriller Nightmare Alley, about a con man who hooks up with a corrupt psychotherapist.
It's too wide a span of films to cover, not to mention that modern film noir is practically incongruous with the more seedy, Hitchcockian elements intrinsic to the nightmarish erotic thrillers that dominated the years just prior to Fatal Instinct's release.
The first is a frightening psychological thriller with the atmosphere of a Nordic noir, following Mia (Andrea Riseborough), an architect who keeps finding herself in harrowing situations.
Part of me wishes that «I Don't Feel At Home in This World Anymore,» a shocking, comic noir thriller from writer - director Macon Blair, were available in theaters; now having seen the film and responding vocally to its various jolts and jokes alone (so very alone) in an empty room, I can only imagine how it would have played with a theatrical audience.
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.
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.
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.
Pierre Lemaitre's American debut novel, Alex, is a dark and arresting crime thriller with a classic noir edge.
Dawson then branched out into the highly successful Beatrix Rose thrillers (beginning with In Cold Blood), as well as a series of «noir» period titles and several stand - alone tales.
Anybody that loves police procedurals written tautly, with grit and a healthy dose of noir, will love this one... her Georgia Davis series may just be one of the best crime thriller series being written today.
We've spent four days in the pouring rain with Quantic Dream's ambitious thriller noir, Heavy Rain, and are ready to pour our thoughts into a review, so you can properly forecast if the game is worth your purchase.
It happened with the upcoming Blade Runner-esque neo noir thriller game Detroit: Become Human.
Rockstar's noir thriller plays to the strengths of the Switch with console - specific enhancements, including a Joy - Con mode with gyroscopic, gesture - based controls, HD rumble, new wide and over-the-shoulder camera angles, plus contextual touch screen controls for portable detective work.
Detroit is an action - adventure title with a noir thriller feel, and it hinges on the choices you make.
The ensemble's lo - fi synth - infused «re-scores» are reminiscent of the noir thrillers, monster movies, and spaghetti westerns that inspire them, with everything from Middle Eastern flare to garage rock jams thrown in the mix.