Sentences with phrase «noirish drama»

In his work, the noirish drama of Cubism and German Expressionism find their complement in techniques of cinematic suspense, with a femme fatale laying in bed, or a Joker - like figure overlooking a nocturnal Gotham, while modernist references play around them like a swelling visual soundtrack.

Other notable films in competition this year include noirish drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, starring Frances McDormand and directed by Martin McDonagh (In Bruges), and Paulo Virzi's comedy - drama The Leisure Seeker, starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland.

Not exact matches

The show, the first original drama series made for Starz, is hardly the most original depiction of Los Angeles, but Crash has a noirish appeal, and ambitions to tell a big story.

A dark and gritty noirish neo-Western crime drama mystery (whew) with a rock - solid cast.

He would return to the era in later films, most notably his hugely successful drama Twenty - Four Eyes (1954), but immediately after Morning for the Osone Family, he dived into escapist fare that better showed off his range, from the poetic romance The Girl I Loved (1946) to the noirish thriller Woman (1948) to the comedy Here's to the Young Lady (1949) to the ghost story Yotsuya kaidan (1949).

... The conflicted heroes of Mann's Westerns are cut from the same cloth as his noirish crime dramas, often attempting to outrun a past that weighs heavily on their actions, morally ambivalent, as they vacillate between individual desire and communal responsibility.

Her noirish mass media representations have always charmed by tapping into Italian neorealist film styles, crime dramas and a host of other 20th century representations from theatre and film.