Sentences with phrase «old noir films»

Not exact matches

Keep it cool with this flirty fedora for the martini - sipping, low - pro, film noir - loving hipster — male or female, young or old this hat has serious style.

This film however, may have had the modern noir feeling, but actually had the old noir story line AKA slow, strange, and confusing.

The evocation of that old film noir feeling is hugely effective here: Dad telling his freshly - bribed son «You can't buy dignity,» the fantastic slow zoom on a love scene reflected in a two - way mirror, even the beguiling torch singer.

Hanson delivers something ever rarer in film culture, not a new film noir but an old - fashioned total movie, somehow of a single piece.

This film noir spoof takes footage from the old movies and mixes them with scenes of Steve Martin as a detective.

Recruited by an old chum (Peter Boyle) to help find an exotic prostitute missing in Chinatown, Hammett enlists his implausibly gorgeous neighbor (Marilu Henner) to play Girl Friday as he matches wits with colorful actors including Jack Nance («Eraserhead» and other David Lynch works), David Patrick Kelly (whose strangled voice is an interesting counterpart to his iconic «Come out to play - yi - yay» taunt from «The Warriors»), Roy Kinnear and a few old - timers from film noir's heyday (the scene with Sylvia Sidney is especially good).

This edition of Now Stream This brings you a highly underrated and very recent Todd Haynes movie, a new Netflix horror flick, a gloriously over-the-top action movie, a cynical noir loaded with snappy dialogue, the first Hannibal Lecter film, a romantic horror movie, a Steven Spielberg adventure, a cringe - inducing social media comedy, and some good old fashioned body horror.

I'm a big fan of film noir and the noir aesthetic that permeates a lot of old Hollywood melodramas where men are corrupted by femme fatale characters who look like the platinum blonde that Rachel McAdams plays.

When 19 - year - old aspirant drummer Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller) goes to the movies with his Pennington High School writer / teacher father (Paul Reiser) there's Rififi on the hoarding, the 1955 French noir film directed by blacklisted émigré filmmaker Jules Dassin.

Anchored by a subtly superb performance by Scottish actress Tilda Swinton, the opening hour of «The Deep End» hints at the promise of rare intrigue and dark allure, but its overall attempts at re-igniting the unsettling ambience of old - fashioned film noir are let down by a potholed plot and poor characterisation.

Among the film's countless offspring, count, too, the Coens» double - bill of noir - infected border westerns Blood Simple and No Country for Old Men, as well as the oeuvre of Cormac McCarthy.

If the film feels Old Hollywood in that the stars are pretty, the heroes are tough, and the sex is good but the brutality is better, then excavate the ways that this period in our history dissolves into period noir: shells of men entrusted with the rebuilding of our society, with dangerous women and effete men (abortion rights and gay marriage vs. the evacuation of civil rights and ground wars in the Middle East) embodying the greater peril.

Whether it's modern noir («L.A. Confidential»), an old classic («Chinatown»), a genre - bending head trip («Mulholland Dr.») or even a cartoon («Who Framed Roger Rabbit»), film loves to pull back the curtain of Hollywood's seedy underbelly and expose the world of crime.

Brick is probably not a movie that will have strong mainstream appeal, but for those that love independent films, the noir classics, old - fashioned detective stories, or just enjoy seeing something they haven't quite seen before, Rian Johnson's experiment will prove to be a success with you.

Rian Johnson, who received great critical acclaim for his modern film noir homage, Brick, crafts another genre homage to the old con capers with The Brothers Bloom, mixing the stories you'd find in such films as The Sting with the light comedy you'd occasionally find in a Marx Brothers comic adventure.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a marriage of old film noir elements with more modern black comedy techniques, and the result is an occasionally funny and entertaining film that ultimately tries too hard and can not maintain the breakneck pace that the first act antes up.

The 69 - year - old director also gets to indulge his love of classic noir films, devoting a large chunk of the series to scripted reenactments and other supposed events, starring actor Peter Sarsgaard as Olson.

The movie is based on a true story about a late - in - life romance between film noir star Gloria Grahame and a 28 - year - old English actor.

«The City & the City is a murder mystery, old - fashioned in its way, narrated by a tough - talking police investigator and layered with all the shadow and menace of a film noir....

Miéville's «The City & The City is a murder mystery, old - fashioned in its way, narrated by a tough - talking police investigator and layered with all the shadow and menace of a film noir.»

Vernon Fisher throws up scenes out of an old Robert Mitchum movie as if the mere mention of film noir guaranteed authenticity.

The artist employs stylistic modes of expression from classic Hollywood movies, old murder mysteries, the golden age of jazz and film noir.

Drawing on the stylistic expression of classic old Hollywood, film noir and the jazz age, the projects are full productions requiring the equivalent of major film sets complete with a casts, extras and lighting.

Vaccaro is interested in capturing the flickering light and the disintegrating romantic images in old film noir.