Sentences with phrase «with noirish»

With a noirish, graphic quality, the photographs recall the work of other artists who are also drawn to the nocturnal world such as Weegee and Daido Moriyama.

2:00 pm — Sundance — Bob le flambeur Sundance is running a three - film set of Jean - Pierre Melville films, starting with this noirish crime film about an aging gambler / thief who takes on one last job — knocking over a casino.

I liked Drive, a vigorous 2011 take on Hollywood car - chase movies with noirish undertones starring Ryan Gosling, but its 2013 successor, Only God Forgives, a muddled romp (also starring Gosling) about a mama's boy adrift in the Bangkok underworld at the mercy of a gangster who performed musical numbers between bloodbaths, was parboiled by critics and avoided by audiences like an airborne virus.

The aesthetics of Blade Runner in particular have had a pervasive influence on the genre, with the noirish future cityscape of the movie developed by Scott and his production designers being lazily cribbed by numerous sci - fi directors trying to bring some of that Blade Runner sophistication and elan to their own generic product.

But how this world looks, with its noirish, faux - 50s - retro - future vibe, and Niccol's extrapolations of how a far more wired society than our own could operate?

Not exact matches

Krantz has a penchant for stylization that quickly slides into a velvet - painting cheesiness, which - along with the script's pseudoprofound Philosophy 101 maxims - renders the atmosphere less noirish than ridiculously cartoonish.

Noirish, erotic, chaotic and intense, Bad Timing grows in complexity and emotional power as it progresses, with a wonderful soundtrack and some exceptional cinematography.

A dark and gritty noirish neo-Western crime drama mystery (whew) with a rock - solid cast.

British director Carol Reed's tense tale of treachery set in post-war Vienna, The Third Man (1949), with the memorable character of black market racketeer Harry Lime (Orson Welles), ended with a climactic shootout in the city's noirish underground sewer.

As a stylist, she is on a level with Douglas Sirk in her gracefully sweeping crane / dolly camera work, and her lighting and direction of actors recalls the noirish tendencies of Robert Aldrich and Don Siegel.

Featuring deliciously unsavory dialogue, in an acid, brilliantly structured script by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman, and noirish neon cityscapes from Oscar - winning cinematographer James Wong Howe, this cynical masterpiece is accompanied on the Channel by a 1986 documentary about Mackendrick, a 1973 documentary about Howe, and a video interview with film critic and historian Neal Gabler.

There are three other previous filmed versions of the book that I have never seen: a silent film from 1926, a noirish film from 1949 (with Alan Ladd), and a hip - hop version — entitled G — from 2002.

Like most of Gilliam's movies, it's very visually striking, this time very dark and noirish with bright bursts of color.

Director Paul Schrader has attempted to craft a noirish crime thriller with Dog Eat Dog.

«Mildred Pierce» co-star Ann Blyth and director Curtiz reunite for this tangy, noirish bio-drama of the tragic popular songstress, with Paul Newman as Helen's brash gangster lover.

There was little love for other English language cinema at the festival, including The Paperboy, Lee Daniels's noirish follow - up to Precious, starring an oft nude Nicole Kidman as an unstable woman who has an affair with Zac Efron.

At the film's recent press day in Los Angeles, the 31 - year - old Brit revealed why he's excited to explore new parts, what attracted him to play a bad guy that's a victim, his love of noirish 70's thrillers like «Klute,» «Dirty Harry,» and «The Conversation,» how he worked closely with director Scott Frank to tap into the darkness of his character, how music helped him prepare for his role in «The Guest,» why family is hugely important to him, and how 2014 has been a breakout year that's allowed him to work with a number of his childhood heroes including Liam Neeson, Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler and John Travolta.

Noirish thriller «Broken City,» with Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe, is currently set for next January, but could move into awards season if it has the right stuff, while Paul Greengrass ««Captain Philips,» with Tom Hanks, might try the same if production goes smoothly.

In a noirish Los Angeles inhabited - in a tense and unease standoff - by puppets and the humans who despise them, a puppet detective (Barretta) teams up with his human ex-partner (a foul - mouthed McCarthy) to investigate a series of murders targeting the cast of a 1980 children's TV series, «The Happytime Gang.»

3:15 am (19th)-- TCM — The Lady from Shanghai Most of Welles» films, no matter the genre, feel a little noirish in mood, but The Lady from Shanghai is the real thing, complete with fatalistic hero who gets dragged into a murder plot by a femme fatale (Rita Hayworth).

And there are a lot of good parts in here — the film noirish opening as the Bride catches us up on what's going on, the fight with Daryl Hannah in the trailer, training with the kung fu master, her getting out of the coffin, etc..

Deadline reports that Mike Myers is going to do the right thing and team up with Simon Pegg and Margot Robbie — two actors who are in high demand these days — for the noirish Terminal.

A combination of new and previously released footage, the footage juxtaposes the noirish futuristic cityscape with Gosling's Officer K wandering through an orange post-apocalyptic landscape, as Robin Wright's character intones, «There is an order to things.

While the setup might sound cliched, this new Amazon show is a noirish treat filled with a strong supporting cast of unconventional characters

Complete with actors, arty cinematography and a noirish voice - over, it's the closest the book industry has come to a movie - style preview for a new title.

A noirish, deeply felt novel of intrigue and identity written in O'Nan's trademark lucent style, City of Secrets asks how both despair and faith can lead us astray, and what happens when, with the noblest intentions, we join movements beyond our control.

The series, set in Apalachicola, FL, is a noirish suspense series, dripping with atmosphere and flawed, human, witty characters.

This noirish historical thriller, in which 15 - year - old Evie questions her relationship with her parents and a flirtatious ex-GI, explores myriad issues of post — World War II America, deftly woven into a girl's crushing coming - of - age.

In his work, the noirish drama of Cubism and German Expressionism find their complement in techniques of cinematic suspense, with a femme fatale laying in bed, or a Joker - like figure overlooking a nocturnal Gotham, while modernist references play around them like a swelling visual soundtrack.

Gelah Penn examines the mediated marks of an abstract, noirish, interior landscape, teeming with perceptual incident.