Sentences with phrase «seedy noir film»
She has described the work as «a seedy noir film that wishes it was an intellectual thriller».
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Hugely enjoyable film noir in which a Texan bar - owner hires a seedy private eye, first to spy on his wife, then to kill her and her lover.
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.
(1947) dir Robert Wise w / Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak, Audrey Long, Elisha Cook Jr. [92 min; 35 mm] This seedy film noir follows recent divorcee Helen Brent (Trevor) as she begins a torrid affair with Sam Wilde (Tierney), a man she knows to be a fiercely jealous murderer.
It's too wide a span of films to cover, not to mention that modern film noir is practically incongruous with the more seedy, Hitchcockian elements intrinsic to the nightmarish erotic thrillers that dominated the years just prior to Fatal Instinct's release.
Part film noir, part Mexican folklore, with a heavy dash of LucasArts wit thrown in for good measure, Grim Fandango's tale of intrigue set in the seedy underbelly of the Land of the Dead feels just as fresh now as it did over 15 years ago.