Sentences with phrase «noirish story»
Now Wolverine is turned loose in a more gritty and noirish story.
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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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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!
Lamberson is highly skilled genre - blender, stirring grisly horror and noirish urban fantasy into a perfectly emulsified sauce to serve over a nicely plotted, medium - rare cop story.