Sentences with phrase «shadowy streets»

The medieval centre has narrow, shadowy streets, which seem to take their personality from the mystical appearance of some of the natural surroundings.

The dark corridors and shadowy streets of post-WWII Vienna were never more ominous than in this film, which stars Joseph Cotten and a scene - stealing, iconically evil Orson Welles.

Preying primarily on menacing misogynists, our protagonist (Sheila Vand) silently slinks through the shadowy streets of «Bad City,» a fictional Iranian ghost town, maintaining her own code of moral justice deep into the hours of darkness.

Jim has seen it all on the city's shadowy streets: killers, thugs, pimps, sadists.

We've got to move from the shadowy street corners where we charge nothing but feel wanted to a brightly lit island where all the boats want to dock

Not exact matches

Not long ago, downtown Los Angeles could feel like a street scene in Blade Runner, all shadowy alleys punctuated by the occasionally transcendent bowl of ramen.

But with no identifiable headquarters, candidates for board slots who win elections with only two write - in votes and a shadowy police force that included a leader of the Traveling Vice Lords street gang, deciphering the Park District's past operations won't be easy.

Sixty - eight percent said his cuts to school aid and tax cuts would convince them to oppose him, while 67 percent said the Committee to Save New York would keep them from pulling the lever for Cuomo, after the pollsters» described the group as a «shadowy» organization «that raised more than $ 17 million from Wall Street, real estate moguls and other business interests to promote his agenda of education cuts and tax breaks.»

But it's Demange's firm direction that gives the character's situation a sense of frantic possibilities under dire circumstances: There's a Kafkaesque element to his wanderings through the shadowy, labyrinthine streets that takes the proceedings beyond their historical specificity.

And that's just the start of a film that establishes such a mood of doomy anticipation that no one who watches it can ever again negotiate the narrow, labyrinthine streets of La Serenissima without wondering if they'll catch a glimpse of a small figure in a red raincoat flitting over a shadowy bridge.

The second outing took the action to the streets and started delving further into the shadowy political figures behind the annual crime spree.

Gregory Ratoff directs with an understated sense of shadowy threat — he does love those hard shadows and partially obscured faces and stormy nights — and makes great use of the Victorian - era backlot street scenes and set.

Don't imagine the sunlit, Italianate vistas of Middle - earth, but shadowy caves, shadowy woods, shadowy narrow streets and the shadowy insides of blasted castles.

Less a city symphony than a muted impressionist painting of urban drifting, the film takes place within the shadowy side streets, modest corner bars, and nondescript 24 - hour diners of the eponymous northwest Portuguese city, where Jake is burning time as a manual laborer and flannel - clad somnambulist.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street suffers in the same ways Burton's other, shadowy ventures have succeeded.

It may have its direct predecessors, but Gibson's tale of hackers, street samurai, conspiracists, and shadowy artificial intelligences against virtual reality, dystopian urban Japan, and a variety of other international and technological backdrops remains not just archetypal but, unusually for older technology - oriented fiction, exciting.

Eventually they fall into the shadowy underground network of the undocumented who haunt the streets of Europe's cities.

By taking us on the trail of what he calls «The Package,» a bundle of paper legally bought by a former Wall Street banker - turned - debt collector but subsequently stolen and sold on by unscrupulous «bottom - feeder» debt dealers, we are given rare access to a shadowy demi - monde where ex-cons and former drug dealers rub shoulders with respectable, besuited Wall Street types.

Street Fighter V takes place between the events of Street Fighter IV and Street Fighter III, with the threat of M. Bison and the shadowy organization Shadaloo looming at an all time high.

«The barber and his client are just in the naturally falling light, perhaps they are in a side street with tall buildings surrounding them, which enables the shadowy background of the building to provide a naturally dark, almost black backdrop to accentuate the barber and his client.

Gorey got another view of Paris from Eugene Atget, who wandered the city early in the mornings to see the parks and streets devoid of people and take dark, shadowy photographs.

In the video, the repetitive thump of the shuttle, combined with a shadowy flicker of ambient street noise, creates a soothing and hypnotic effect.

Next, we roll through Savannah's shadowy, cobbled streets - captivated by its historic squares and centuries - old live oaks, dripping with Spanish moss.