Sentences with phrase «of noir stories»

Late last year saw the «You Crime» competition in which authors of noir stories were pitted against each other, competing for a publishing contract based on how strongly they could generate social - media support.

Smokey rooms, smooth jazz and a man with a briefcase: FRAMED has all the components of a noir story shuffled in a really smart puzzle game.

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One of the greatest movies ever to look at the movie industry, Billy Wilder's 1950s - era pop culture noir is timeless for its story of the struggle in the business and the effects of fame when everyone forgets you.

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I for one am quite eager to see where Eliot's story ends up leading and if you're a fan of Noir fiction, or have a taste for the gritty, Blues and Bullets will definitely scratch that itch for you.

However, it would be a mistake to allow the controversy or the shock value to become the story of this excellent noir comedy that takes black humor to a new level of darkness.

2» pays homage to a variety of genres — spaghetti Western, film noir, blaxploitation (after all, this is Tarantino we're talking about), kung fu — while actually managing to hammer home a pretty solid, heartfelt story.

Based, like its 2005 predecessor, on Miller's graphic novels, stylized noir thriller A Dame to Kill For is divided into four chapters, two of them original stories unique to the film; the result is both a prequel and a sequel to Sin City.

Critic Consensus: Though this ambitious noir crime - drama captures the atmosphere of its era, it suffers from subpar performances, a convoluted story, and the inevitable comparisons to other, more successful films of its genre.

If you have played and enjoyed the first case in this detective story by Suda51, then The 25th Ward can be a good choice for a few more hours of visual novel / noir gameplay.

While Anon doesn't boast a superior story, it's engaging in the way many B - grade noir films from the «40s and «50s were — pulpy excursions into the dark side of human nature with hard - bitten heroes and duplicitous femmes fatale.

The series» penchant for leaning into its noir elements — hard - boiled narration and all — lends it a tone and spirit completely distinct from the sea of superhero stories currently out there.

By virtue of such economical tension exercises as 99 River Street (1949), Tight Spot (1955), and the superb The Phenix City Story (1955), Karlson was embraced by the cognoscenti as a master purveyor of the «film noir» genre.

Intercut in the fantastical story of Martin's character are scenes from classic mystery and noir films.

It introduces itself as a noir murder mystery, but seamlessly veers into a story of man in love with a dancer, looking for redemption in his twilight.

The student's pesky mother also gets involved, in ways which shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who's seen a typical film noir, and the story turns into a rather backward - looking tale of sin and wrongdoing.

One of Gloria Grahame's most nuanced performances is as Laurel Gray in 1950's «In a Lonely Place,» a noir love story from director Nicholas Ray.

9 a.m. (6 a.m.): «The Money Trap» (1966, Burt Kennedy) Western ace and sometime noir - maker Kennedy («The Killer Inside Me») turns to contemporary neo-noir in this Walter Bernstein - scripted story of a corrupt cop (Glenn Ford) and his married object of desire (Hayworth).

6 a.m. (3 a.m.): «Drunken Angel» (Japan, 1948, Akira Kurosawa) Kurosawa's first critical / audience hit, is almost pure noir: the story of the edgy relationship, in a poor section of the city, between a drunken but idealistic doctor (Takashi Shimura) and a mortally ill gangster (Mifune).

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Most of the noir detective story archetypes are here — the tough shamus (Bob Hoskins as Eddie Valiant), the murder suspect (Charles Fleischer as long - eared fugitive Roger Rabbit), the femme fatale (Kathleen Turner as cartoon bombshell Jessica Rabbit), the suspicious boss (Stubby Kaye as studio head Marvin Acme) and the formidable lawman (Christopher Lloyd as Judge Doom).

He is involved with some dangerous characters who at first seem like important plot factors; later, we suspect Wenders was just throwing in some film noir elements to keep up the interest before getting to his real story, which comes toward the end of this very long film.

But whatever its plot repetition and warmed - over tough talk cost it, this is still a movie like few others you've ever seen, a 3D slice of Nihilistic noir that will have you narrating your own guts and guns story on the drive home, chewing on a toothpick as you do.

[notification type =» star»] 98/100 — Drive is a masterpiece of vividly realized contradictions — a brilliantly stylized character study, a brutally violent love story, a slow - burning noir thriller of bright, neon - lit beauty.

Suggesting a period piece version of a film noir saga as envisioned by Stanley Kubrick, this twisted feminist drama is rooted in contentious racial - and gender - warfare issues, employing a meticulous formalism to recount its cutthroat story about Katherine's at - any - cost attempts to attain liberation.

A good story gets stuck in a puddle of mood in «Dark Crimes,» a film that strays from its fascinating source - a real - life murder case - into a less successful attempt at noir.

A heartrending love story tops our list of the year's best films, which also features a kids» - eye view of Florida, political horror, erotic thrills, sci - fi noir, ghosts, grief and communism

This brave appraisal of fear and uncertainty elevates The Stranger above any run - of - the - mill detective story, qualifying it as a horror - tinged film noir, even if it doesn't always evenly line up with the genre.

Based on «The Aspern Papers» and more Hollywood gothic than pure noir, this story of the hunt for lost love letters has more creepy moments than author Henry James would have thought possible.

The film noir style makes this a classic detective story that'll certainly stand the test of time.

One of noir master Fritz Lang's last American films and another of his anti-capital punishment stories, but with an unusual twist.

Actor - turned - screenwriter Hampton Fancher came next, as he built out the screen story by adding its noir elements; filmmaker Ridley Scott (Alien) contributed his staggering cinematic vision for a dystopian near - future and ever deeper layers of meaning, aided by late - coming screenwriter David Webb Peoples.

The picture has a framing story and a movie - long narration, two more ingredients in the neo - noir / American Gothic stew that Eastwood has continued to perpetuate long after his twin Americana triumphs A Perfect World and Unforgiven rendered the conversation — at least inasmuch as Eastwood is capable of carrying it — moot.

Basically, though, the film noir flourished in and reflected a contemporary milieu; films noirs tended to have to do with the world of crime, whether overtly (police and FBI stories, private - eye flicks, gangster stories) or by extension — that is, films in which «the world of crime» proved to be inseparable from the world of nightclubs and cabarets, offices and tenements, cars and homes where private citizens might become, by accident or design, guilty souls.

The story plays out in a closed world of mid-level criminals and victims, LA noir terrain of anonymous apartment buildings, B - movie sets and pizzerias

The celebrated «werewolf noir» story by the author of «Game of Thrones» is in development as a TV series.

ROBBERS STUDIO: Sony Pictures TV and Timberman / Beverly TEAM: Christopher Cook (w, co-ep), Michael Dinner (w, d, ep), Sarah Timberman (ep), Carl Beverly (ep) LOGLINE: Described as being in the literary - noir tradition of Cormac McCarthy's No Country For Old Men, it tells the story of a cop, two «running buddies» on a crime spree across Texas and the girl who becomes the complication in a very unique love triangle.

The result, U-Turn, is a derivative, trite noir that resembles better films and better stories, with Stone trying his best to distract you from that sameness by dangling lots of flashy things and big name actors in small cameos resulting in a melted banana split; very colorful with no substance whatsoever.

T - Men — This fairly early Anthony Mann film is more of a police procedural, than a noir, as it tells the story of the Treasury Department's anti-counterfeiting detectives in a pseudo-documentary style.

8:30 am — TCM — The Killers (1946) Burt Lancaster made his film debut in this excellent noir, an expansion of an Ernest Hemingway short story.

The story of Diggs Nightcrawler follows a detective who is framed for the murder of his friend who happens to be a high profile citizen of Library City, and it follows the style of a noir thriller.

In 1948, a year before they made the nonpareil thriller «The Third Man,» director Carol Reed and screenwriter Graham Greene collaborated on another tilted - camera film - noir classic: this mesmerizing story of a French diplomat's son (Bobby Henrey), who hero - worships the embassy butler (Ralph Richardson).

Everything comes together in this movie — a phenomenal story; great performances (particularly from Perkins, whose take on Norman evokes precisely the right mix of sympathy and horror); the black - and - white cinematography (done, by most accounts, as both a cost - cutting measure and to lessen the impact of the bloody scenes), which contributes to an edgy, noir - ish feel that serves to increase the tension; and a killer soundtrack (horrible pun intended).

Those books and some later titles, Tomato Red (1998) and The Death of Sweet Mister (2001), fit in with a sub-genre identified by Woodrell when he was reviewing Joe Lansdale's Mucho Mojo, calling it «country noir», stories of «dark suspense» set in «rural and small - town America» (1).

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.

Wise, who also directed the noirs «The Set - Up» and «Odds Against Tomorrow» along with many other films (most notably Oscar winners «West Side Story» and «The Sound of Music») started as an editor («Citizen Kane»).

Amongst the plethora of television thrillers, mysteries and detective stories, the Nordic Noir genre is undoubtedly the one of the moment.

FRAMED Collection — # 8.99 Rearrange the panels of an animated comic book to craft the story of a noir - styled spy adventure.