Sentences with phrase «noirish films»

4:00 am — TCM — The Bad and the Beautiful Vincente Minnelli directs Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Dick Powell, and Gloria Grahame in one of the best dark - side - of - Hollywood noirish films this side of Sunset Boulevard.

9:30 am — TCM — The Bad and the Beautiful Vincente Minnelli directs Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Dick Powell, Gloria Grahame, and others in one of the best dark - side - of - Hollywood noirish films this side of Sunset Boulevard.

There are three other previous filmed versions of the book that I have never seen: a silent film from 1926, a noirish film from 1949 (with Alan Ladd), and a hip - hop version — entitled G — from 2002.

Not exact matches

Set in a noirish, gleaming Montreal, this handsome, captivating, well - paced and stylish film is fully realized in every aspect.

His inclination towards dimly - lit, noirish landscapes works for him as the film is primarily set in that age, likewise his skills as a jazz pianist work for him in scoring the film.

Abruptly, the proceedings take a noirish turn — suffice it to say that Andre's venture into the criminal world has major unintended consequences — and the film loses its footing.

Featuring deliciously unsavory dialogue, in an acid, brilliantly structured script by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman, and noirish neon cityscapes from Oscar - winning cinematographer James Wong Howe, this cynical masterpiece is accompanied on the Channel by a 1986 documentary about Mackendrick, a 1973 documentary about Howe, and a video interview with film critic and historian Neal Gabler.

Where most Australian genre films tend to be outback horrors, this one's a noirish sci - fi that plays like an immaculately produced American studio film.

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).

Christian Petzold's last film, the masterful Phoenix, drew complex undercurrents of suspicion, psychological unease, and suspense (not to mention one of the greatest endings in contemporary film) out of the noirish story of a disfigured Holocaust survivor who returns to post-war Berlin and is roped into a scheme by the husband who mistakes her for a stranger.

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.

Broken Embraces — This latest, and as far as I've seen, which isn't much, the least of Pedro Almodovar's films is a noirish story about a blind director and the Penelope Cruz he once loved.

Other notable newly featured films include the better - than - you'd - expect noirish Nightmare Alley, a more than adequate adaptation of Virginia Woolf's difficult - to - film novel Mrs. Dalloway, Tommy Lee Jones's strong directorial debut The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, and the unjustly forgotten William Powell - led mystery The Kennel Murder Case.

At the film's recent press day in Los Angeles, the 31 - year - old Brit revealed why he's excited to explore new parts, what attracted him to play a bad guy that's a victim, his love of noirish 70's thrillers like «Klute,» «Dirty Harry,» and «The Conversation,» how he worked closely with director Scott Frank to tap into the darkness of his character, how music helped him prepare for his role in «The Guest,» why family is hugely important to him, and how 2014 has been a breakout year that's allowed him to work with a number of his childhood heroes including Liam Neeson, Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler and John Travolta.

More than Shockproof, the 1949 film Fuller cowrote for Douglas Sirk, The Naked Kiss intuits a Sirkian female melodrama — at least a Sirkian female melodrama as recast by Russ Meyer and Rainer Werner Fassbinder into a minimalistic, noirish fairy tale.

And yet, for me at least, the film manages to be its own thing, to be more than just a noirish, postmodern Super Friends / Justice League for anthropomorphic animal cartoon characters.

10:00 pm — Sundance — Bob le flambeur Jean - Pierre Melville's noirish crime film about an aging gambler / thief who takes on one last job — knocking over a casino.

3:15 am (19th)-- TCM — The Lady from Shanghai Most of Welles» films, no matter the genre, feel a little noirish in mood, but The Lady from Shanghai is the real thing, complete with fatalistic hero who gets dragged into a murder plot by a femme fatale (Rita Hayworth).

Only God Forgives shares the previous film's star Ryan Gosling and a strong sense of style, but it doesn't have the love story or noirish plot to give it a backbone.

And there are a lot of good parts in here — the film noirish opening as the Bride catches us up on what's going on, the fight with Daryl Hannah in the trailer, training with the kung fu master, her getting out of the coffin, etc..

8:00 pm — TCM — The Asphalt Jungle The Asphalt Jungle was really MGM's first foray into noirish crime films.

6:10 am — Sundance — Bob le flambeur Jean - Pierre Melville's noirish crime film about an aging gambler / thief who takes on one last job — knocking over a casino.

Lou Ye's film also draws from Hollywood film noir, using a voice - over narration to recount the story in flashback while the narrator is determinedly kept offscreen, the camera taking his place — which is probably derived from Robert Montgomery's gimmicky, noirish Raymond Chandler adaptation Lady in the Lake (1946).

Three small films: Also recommended are «Salvo,» an noirish Italian love story about a Sicilian Mafia hitman and the blind sister of one of his victims; «Salvo» recently won the Grand Prix during Cannes Critics» Week.

«Under the Skin,» a noirish sci - fi film by Jonathan Glazer («Sexy Beast,» «Birth») is austere and visually striking, inscrutable and haunting.

As certain films can be seen as perfect representatives of their genres (Sleepless in Seattle for romantic comedies, The Maltese Falcon for noirish private detective stories, Airplane!

2:00 pm — Sundance — Bob le flambeur Sundance is running a three - film set of Jean - Pierre Melville films, starting with this noirish crime film about an aging gambler / thief who takes on one last job — knocking over a casino.

Everything has the same value and texture in Carnegie's paintings, but these silent and sexily impenetrable film - noirish worlds are enticing for their bold and striking geometric arrangements.

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.