| 单词 | film noir |
| 例句 | “It’s very film noir. All we need is a fog machine and a dame with a gun and checkered past.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z For GIs who came home traumatized, film noir was both a validation of their anxieties and B-movie therapy to cure it. Unknown Review: Liam Neeson Gets Re-Taken 2011-02-19T02:45:00Z Inspired by “Dragnet” but predating “Naked City” by one season, the show’s ambience is that of Neorealist-inflected film noir. ‘Pink Panther’ and ‘Decoy’ Return on Disc 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z It is far more prudent for a photographer for glossy magazines to allude modestly to film noir, as Bourdin did, than to Renaissance masterpieces. Photography’s Road From Edgy to Excess 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z A decade or so later, you see her shadow in the femme fatale of film noir – the dangerous dame with a storied past. Sexpionage! Why filmmakers can't resist a honeytrap 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Scahill, 38, narrates the film like a hard-boiled gumshoe following leads in a film noir. Movie Review: ‘Dirty Wars,’ Directed by Richard Rowley 2013-06-06T21:37:39Z In its way, it's as much a film noir as Detour or The Woman in the Window or Double Indemnity. Bringing Up Baby: The story of a scene 2010-10-18T10:38:00Z The essence of low-budget filmmaking and a landmark of film noir, Ulmer’s brisk, grimy contemplation of the anonymity of the American road and the cruelties of fate seems tailor-made for beat-up prints and cheap DVDs. 3 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z “The book would need to look like film noir as well.” The Very Small Monkey Who Couldn’t Put On His Pants 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Described on the posters as "Darling of society, Cruel love killer, She lived two amazing lives", Thaxter played a schizophrenic – both a femme fatale and a good girl, female archetypes of film noir. Phyllis Thaxter 2012-08-17T16:53:51Z Metro Classics continues this week with the 1955 film noir "Night of the Hunter," starring Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters and directed by Charles Laughton. Charlie Chaplin films featured at SIFF 2011-04-14T21:57:04Z Both riffed on the moody nihilism of film noir. ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ and ‘Reservoir Dogs’ at 30: Men Talking 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z The nervous vibrancy of that music contrasts with the cool shimmer of the Los Angeles scenes, with suspended dissonances that evoke film noir. Review: 2 Murderous Men in 2 Operas About Killing for Politics 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z In the earlier movie, perpetrators of the massacres eagerly re-enact their crimes, borrowing costumes and attitudes from American genre movies, as if they were western or film noir heroes. Review: ‘The Look of Silence’ Confronts Individuals and Ideology of Indonesian Massacre 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z "I do think it is a topical movie or a women's rights movie; it's a film noir." "Holy Spider" examines a "serial killer society," in which Iranian sex workers are targeted 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z This role needed an actress with mystery, and danger, and heat -- somebody who could suggest hidden hunger, opportunism, kinkiness and cruelty; a touch of the film noir heroine, perhaps, or the Hitchcock blonde. Sarah Michelle Gellar flounders in a bland new drama 2011-09-13T15:03:00Z We're doing a hard-boiled crime story, but consciously not imitating a film noir look. Noir classic steps out of the shadows at ACT 2011-10-20T18:50:11Z This one may not make much sense, but — like a demented old film noir or a Shonda Rhimes show at its crazed best — “Girl” doesn’t falter in its absurdity or commitment to its own seriousness. Review: In ‘The Girl on the Train,’ a Boozy Emily Blunt Never Winks 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z The genres that the movie touches as it progresses — romance, horror thriller, post-Freudian psychological puzzle and film noir — overlap and melt into one another. | 'The Double Hour': Romance or Film Noir? Both, and a Thriller 2011-04-14T23:37:10Z With wavy hair and luminous skin, Ms. Gray had the looks to play one of film noir’s leading ladies in the 1940s and ’50s. Coleen Gray, Who Played Film Noir Naïfs, Dies at 92 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z This is a film noir Nora, a woman caught wide-eyed in terror in half-lighted corridors as she tries to adjust her face to match what people expect of her. Theater Review: ‘A Doll’s House,’ With Hattie Morahan’s Frantic Nora 2014-02-28T03:00:01Z Both in its title and its content, the piece references Los Angeles and film noir, without actually quoting any of the classic Hollywood scores of the period. Prom 4: Orchestra of the RAM & The Juilliard School – review 2012-07-17T10:22:17Z In an intriguing twist that links "Lights Out" to pulp crime thrillers and film noir, Lights also starts doing big-money favors for a local crime boss -- jobs that always seem to end badly for Lights. "Lights Out" throws a knockout punch 2011-01-25T15:35:00Z A related group of works, shown in Moscow in 2013, paired images from Manet, Courbet, Andy Warhol and David Hockney with an artist’s name, song title or film noir title. John Baldessari, Who Gave Conceptual Art a Dose of Humor, Is Dead at 88 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z With shadowy imagery that pushes the boundaries of visibility and a mumbly lead performance from Ben Foster that strains the limits of intelligibility, “Galveston” goes past film noir and lands at film murk. Review: In ‘Galveston,’ on the Run With Nowhere to Go 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z His son noted that he had to "fight tooth and nail" to star in the gritty 1947 film noir "Nightmare Alley." Tyrone Power had it all, but he wanted more 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z If you want lean and mean, classic film noir is where you want to be. From Ida to The Evil Dead: 10 of the best films under 90 minutes 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z I really want to see you do a detective film, or a film noir. "Debt Collectors" star talks brawl that is a "straight rip-off" of "They Live" fight scene 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z “It’s in the form of a film noir, a thriller that I tried to give to a sort Hitchockian feel.” Mick Jagger swaps stage for set in art thriller 'The Burnt Orange... 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z Next came Jean-Luc Godard, who did so in early 1960 with “Breathless,” a Parisian version of an American film noir that nonetheless plays like an intimately personal story. The Front Row: “Love Is Colder Than Death” 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Unsurprisingly drawing on postwar film noir for inspiration in both content and style, this murder-mystery adventure promises much. Games preview for 2011 2011-01-02T00:04:02Z Northwest Film Forum is screening the film noir. Week in film includes lost innocence, mystery and peek inside moviemaking 2010-04-01T18:50:00Z In the era of film noir, and the woman’s picture, a morally compromised woman could be an object of psychological speculation rather than lurid fascination. Sexpionage! Why filmmakers can't resist a honeytrap 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z This seedy drawing of Tinseltown took inspiration from film noir, and its story was set in the golden age of Hollywood studios, many of which were then in decline. My Favorite Summer Blockbuster 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Screening Monday through Thursday at Northwest Film Forum this week is "Man from London," Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr's film noir about an impoverished railway switchman. Week in film includes lost innocence, mystery and peek inside moviemaking 2010-04-01T18:50:00Z They’ll draw from their second compelling duo album — “Aurora,” recorded live in Ms. Serpa’s hometown, Lisbon — with a frame of reference that includes songbook standards, film noir and Portuguese fado. Jazz Listings for June 6-12 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z “The Stranger” à la Visconti, however, is far from film noir. ‘The Stranger,’ Made All the More So in the Person of Mastroianni 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z The funicular, at its original location on West 3rd Street, appeared in dozens of films going back as far as “Their Ups and Downs” in 1914, but film noir directors especially appreciated its usefulness. Readers react: Why the Olympics opening ceremony did matter 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z So we opened with the emptiness of L.A., in kind of a film noir style. Tony Todd on the Joy of ‘Candyman,’ and the Role of Black Horror 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z Angel’s Flight A detective searches for a missing girl in 1940s L.A. in this mashup of comedy, burlesque and film noir. L.A. theater openings, Sept. 4-11: Patti LuPone and more 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Your L is a masterpiece — it seems a perfect fit for film noir. New dimensions of type 2012-06-11T00:00:00Z In 1947, she starred with Bogart in the film noir classic “Dead Reckoning,” playing a femme fatale who attempts to foil Bogart’s investigation into an Army buddy’s mysterious death. Lizabeth Scott, sultry femme fatale of Hollywood’s film noir, dies at 92 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z But “Better Living Through Chemistry” never becomes a full-fledged film noir. Movie Review: ‘Better Living Through Chemistry,’ or at Least Better Loving 2014-03-13T23:05:47Z I accompanied him at a very tender age to the local cinemas, and was raised on a diet of gangster movies and film noir, nourishing a family addiction which still persists. Terence Baxter obituary 2011-08-11T17:16:26Z Moore channels the moody intensity of Raymond Chandler’s crime fiction and saturates “The Dark Room” with the brooding cinematic qualities of the mid-20th century’s black-and-white film noir genre. Best mysteries and thrillers to read this month 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Gritty film noir just may be embraced by contemporary audiences more than any other genre from the Golden Age of Hollywood. 'Noir City' film fest explores darker side of life 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z He also mentioned “Sunset Boulevard,” the 1950 Billy Wilder film noir, which was nominated for best picture but did not win. Trump Denounces Oscar Winner ‘Parasite’ 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z A whole film noir element emerges, which is what really makes the show worth watching. The best TV of 2016 … that you probably didn't watch 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z While teaching a seminar on film noir and its literary roots, Mr. Hansen researched James M. Cain’s novels “The Postman Always Rings Twice” and “Double Indemnity.” Books of The Times: An Affair, a Murder, a Sensation 2011-06-05T22:14:07Z “Us,” which evokes being “with, against, and up against another” in the city, recalled for me 1940s film noir scores. Review: Wynton Marsalis’s Urban Symphony for the Philharmonic 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z This movie doesn’t recycle film noir conventions so much as contrive — with a genuine sense of discovery — to locate these conventions in a realistic contemporary context. ‘The Wild Goose Lake’ Review: A Noir Thriller in Wuhan 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z He was an avant-garde filmmaker on the side, with a deep knowledge of expressionism and film noir, whose shadows, angles and distortions he introduced into his paintings. Robert Vickrey, Magic-Realist Painter, Dies at 84 2011-04-20T10:41:52Z But “Aquarius” looks at the psychedelic Summer of Love through the smoky filter of a 1940s film noir. Review: Mulder Meets Manson in NBC’s Compelling ‘Aquarius’ 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z “Bloodline” is a sneaky, dissembling film noir account of a sneaky, dissembling family. Review: ‘Bloodline,’ on Netflix, Depicts a Family With Nasty Secrets 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z They are learning the el silbo gomero, the island’s whistling language, which dates back at least to the 15th century and is now the unlikely star of a new Romanian film noir, The Whistlers. Sing like a canary! The whistling consultant who taught Romanian noir gangsters a tune 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z The story that emerged fell somewhere between film noir at its sleazy best and “King Lear.” In the New Hollywood, Sumner Redstone Is a Man Out of Time 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z About 25 performers act out mostly wordless scenes inspired by Shakespeare's play while dressed in 1930s outfits and giving off a film noir vibe. NYC's 'Sleep No More' shows off its musical side 2013-02-18T22:46:04Z But about halfway through, it loses the film noir premise and reverts to a succession of effects. Dance Review: Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer at Baryshnikov Arts Center 2010-03-29T21:23:00Z It’s apt to post this discussion of Robert Siodmak’s 1944 film noir “Christmas Holiday” after the Christmas holiday, because it’s anything but a bearer of good cheer. Movie of the Week: “Christmas Holiday” 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z A poster for the classic film noir 1971 British gangster film Get Carter, starring Michael Caine, is expected to fetch a similar amount. Retired teacher’s rare film posters stand to make a fortune at auction 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z The first was a film noir and the second a pirate adventure. William Lubtchansky obituary 2010-05-12T18:07:00Z Two of his other crime novels also yielded influential film noir gems — "The Postman Always Rings Twice" and the Joan Crawford hit "Mildred Pierce." Noir classic steps out of the shadows at ACT 2011-10-20T18:50:11Z I wanted to make sure that we were as specifically true to film noir as the first movie was. Denis Villeneuve Proved to Us He Loves 'Blade Runner' More Than Anybody 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z In his discussion of the film, A. O. Scott called it “a hybrid of a folk tale and a film noir, but true to its own vivid and haunting reality.” ArtsBeat: Critics' Picks Video: 'The Night of the Hunter' 2011-03-21T20:49:32Z But cinephiles have been chattering again about film noir, a category that is notoriously difficult to define but about which every movie lover has an opinion. Want to Be an Instant Expert on Film Noir? Watch This Drama 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z All that is familiar territory to readers of thrillers or fans of film noir. Origins of Oscar Winner ?The Secret in Their Eyes? 2010-04-14T22:16:00Z It is equally at home in gangster flicks and film noir, road movies and political thrillers. Will Hollywood ever end its love affair with guns? 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z The book is a set of nearly 150 single-page poems that tinker with notions taken from Hollywood’s golden era and film noir. Times Critics Discuss Their Year in Books, From New Talents to Old Favorites 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Denis Côté’s “Curling,” a snow-bound feature from Quebec, gestures in the direction of horror and film noir while quietly refusing to resolve the mysteries and quandaries it puts into play. Critic?s Notebook: Modest Methods, Big Ambitions 2011-03-22T22:58:03Z But it is a dark and cynical film, and it makes a good test case for film noir, a category that resists clear definition. The 1947 ‘Nightmare Alley’: A Dark View of Class as Destiny 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z The chance to see a double bill of classic 1940s film noir is too good to pass up, and that's what Landmark Theatre's Anniversary Classics Series is offering on Monday. Landmark's Anniversary Classics Series screens noir gems 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Walter White's laugh at the end of season four's eleventh episode "Crawl Space" was bone-chilling -- a horror movie or film noir laugh; the hideous guffaw of a man in existential panic. Walter White has to laugh, otherwise he'd cry 2011-09-26T07:27:00Z He called his show “The Treatment Room,” suggesting some film noir horrors. Sporty? It's the Olympics, Stupid! 2012-09-18T17:23:29Z The poems in Minnis’s fifth collection play with notions taken from Hollywood’s golden era and film noir. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Sounds intense, and Stone's film is indeed a lurid, pulpy film noir but with an erotic, even dreamlike California beach vibe. Review: Stone back in bold form with `Savages' 2012-07-03T01:46:04Z The Old Testament, if you get a good translation, is a complete film noir. Gangsta Folk 2011-03-13T09:12:36Z The standard genres – comedy, melodrama, western, film noir – he took to himself with peculiar zest; his secret was an ease at improvisation that required a constant adroitness with his company. Howard Hawks, Hollywood's finest practitioner of everyday chivalry 2011-01-15T00:05:49Z That's the vein in which "Breaking Bad" often operates -- a vein that also runs through horror and film noir, two genres that this series regularly invokes. Walter White has to laugh, otherwise he'd cry 2011-09-26T07:27:00Z The movie is a crime drama in the film noir tradition, set in Madrid and with references to Japanese manga comics. Magical Girl wins top film award 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z Lines like these, from “Isis,” combine the matter-of-fact tone of film noir with the rigor of a mathematical proof: Bob Dylan: America’s Great One-Man Songbook 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z One way in which Diao’s vision hews to classicism is in accepting the inexorability of fate, as film noir requires. ‘The Wild Goose Lake’ Review: A Noir Thriller in Wuhan 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Seattle International Film Festival’s annual foray into the shadowy world of film noir includes 18 hard-boiled classics, most of them newly restored and all introduced by the Czar of Noir, Eddie Mueller. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for February 2018 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z The anime series “Cowboy Bebop” debuted in Japan in 1998, combining futuristic space travel with Spaghetti Western grit and the slickness of film noir. She Shaped the Sound of ‘Cowboy Bebop,’ Again 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z A caricature of a film noir vamp, Rivka skulks around in a bright red dress and narrowly avoids all manner of unspeakable torture. Movie Review: ‘The Bag Man,’ Starring Robert De Niro 2014-02-28T00:34:03Z The wittiest number, Mr. Leonhart’s “ Double Cross,” was an absurdly complicated film noir parody; the most sobering, Paul Simon’s wistfully prescient “American Tune.” Music Review: Maureen McGovern at Birdland - Review 2011-11-09T23:26:51Z Mr. Thomas recommended visitors watch Marilyn Monroe in the 1953 film noir picture “Niagara,” set at and near the falls. How to Get the Most out of Visiting World-Famous Sites 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z Channel 4 said The Hunt For Tony Blair will be shot in they style of a 1950s film noir. Comic Strip show set for return 2011-06-14T15:25:12Z Certainly, it could be argued that a number of the plots in "Pulp Fiction" are like versions of TV sitcom that have mutated into film noir. "Pulp Fiction" in chronological order: Untwisting Tarantino's cryptic timeline 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z It’s a style so minimalist, it approaches maximalism — and this combination of pulp and precision creates an arresting and unique work of film noir. ‘Twilight’ Review: Film Noir in the Hungarian Hills 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z For reasons known only to Knight, “Serenity” couldn’t just be a film noir. ‘Serenity’ Review: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and One Very Bad Mess 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z If, as cinema scholars have suggested, film noir is the cinematic style that best captures the mysterious quality of dreams, “Noirtown” succeeds in making those fantasies tangible. A New Festival Shows Off Creators Ready to Launch 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z The 1996 film noir won two Oscars for best script and best actress. Coen brothers to develop TV Fargo 2012-09-25T13:08:44Z Add the film noir subtlety and technical work like bonding leather and cashmere and you have a fine, modern collection that the duo defined as “techno-sartorial.” Youth Is Beautiful 2013-01-16T18:48:37Z I asked a film noir expert and he said that nobody could handle Bogart as that person so they made him a guy with an anger management problem. ‘The Night Of’ Finale: In a Lonely Place 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z The Appleton, Wisconsin native was in Pusan to promote the film noir "A Woman," which was directed by his wife, Italian filmmaker Giada Colagrande. Dafoe says he's proud of Green Goblin 2010-10-08T18:20:00Z With contemporary sets and costumes evoking film noir, the production captures the emotional darkness of the story of the self-destructive King Gustavo, who is pursuing Amelia, the wife of his trusted adviser. Classical & Opera Listings for April 24-30 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Abbasi: I do think it is a topical movie or a women's rights movie; it's a film noir. "Holy Spider" examines a "serial killer society," in which Iranian sex workers are targeted 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z The movie may have been shot in a studio tank but the schooner on which it mainly takes place is lit to suggest the stippled patterns of a film noir nightclub. ‘The Sea Wolf’ and ‘Titanic’: Fascism on the High Seas 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z There is plenty of melodrama, though, and more than a touch of film noir. Review: ‘Carol’ Explores the Sweet Science of Magnetism 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Naishuller watched that film noir but deemed it unsuccessful because viewers didn’t see the character’s body in the much fuller way it is seen in “Hardcore Henry.” ‘Hardcore Henry’ Transforms the Viewer Into the Star 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Greene, who died in 1991, wrote some screenplays himself, probably the most famous being "The Third Man", a thriller of the "film noir" genre set in post-war Vienna and starring Orson Welles. Leper colony novel would make great film, producer tells Greene fest 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Shot by Russell Metty, the cinematographer on Welles’s later “Touch of Evil,” “The Stranger” is further notable for integrating government footage of Nazi concentration camps into a film noir context. ‘Othello’: Shakespeare’s Tragedy Was Orson Welles’s Triumph 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z The British actress will be following in the footsteps of Hollywood legend Joan Crawford who famously played the part in a 1945 film noir melodrama. 'Very different Mildred' 2011-03-24T10:30:47Z When Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet comes to Meany Theater in November, they'll perform Pite's "Grace Engine," described in the Los Angeles Times earlier this year as "a moody work that looked ripped from film noir." Kidd Pivot's 'Tempest Replica': a temporary farewell in Seattle 2012-10-17T18:52:05Z A play on film noir traits, and featuring a detective aided by an imaginary friend, it fits right into that lineage of comic book shows that aren’t too stuffy for their own good. Less po-faced, more pow! Why Netflix and Marvel need to lighten up 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z They spit out lines familiar to fans of film noir: “Go out there and catch me another sinner,” the Irish lieutenant says. Video Game to Play in Vintage Gumshoes 2011-05-06T20:13:40Z Welles’s use of shadows and low angles have led some observers to categorize “Citizen Kane” as a film noir. Watched ‘Mank’ but Never Seen ‘Citizen Kane’? Here’s a Primer 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the appetite for film noir remained undimmed, with In a Lonely Place, Kiss Me Deadly and Touch of Evil the high points. From Godzilla to Some Like it Hot – why the 1950s is my favourite film decade 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z More elevated assessments of Cain, and a renewed interest in pulp fiction and film noir, have appeared since the writer's death in 1977. Noir classic steps out of the shadows at ACT 2011-10-20T18:50:11Z Her new show, “Noir,” at the Metropolitan Room, plays lightly with film noir images and archetypes. Music Review: Campy Ode to Film Noir and a Twist on Politics 2010-10-22T23:39:00Z She is the doom-driven vixen in this modern film noir, where the blinding brightness of the Sunshine State cannot conceal humanity’s darkest impulses. The Paperboy: Down and Dirty with Zac, Matthew and Nicole 2012-10-04T14:30:59Z He sums up the staying power of noir style with a line straight out of film noir: “It’s just something that you know is right, even if it’s wrong.” Op-Ed Columnist: It Goes With Everything, Even Bad Hair 2012-10-01T03:01:10Z Then along came another young American writer-director steeped in the lore of American film noir, with a similar flair for spicing it up with quotable dialogue, black humour and flashes of horror, Quentin Tarantino. My inspiration for The Liability: Cohen and Tate and its brilliant screenwriter 2013-05-14T10:23:00Z Anger, fear and sadness dominate the emotional landscape of Nicholas Ray’s 1950 film noir “In a Lonely Place.” ArtsBeat Blog: Critics' Picks Video: 'In a Lonely Place' 2011-08-29T21:20:13Z "Elena": This Russian film noir features a score by Philip Glass. Weekend Preview: Fests in West Seattle, Green Lake, Ballard and the Chinatown-ID 2012-07-11T20:25:04Z He's crossed a line and taken the violence that is part of film noir and blown it up, making it bigger, slower, louder, longer, brighter, crueller, so that it overwhelms the entire film. The Killer Inside Me: can the violence be justified? 2010-06-12T23:06:00Z The film noir style suited Miss Scott well because its films touched on “the psychological, emotional things that people feel and people do,” she said in a 1996 interview with documentary filmmaker Carole Langer. Lizabeth Scott, sultry femme fatale of Hollywood’s film noir, dies at 92 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z Robert Towne, who wrote the scripts for the classic Los Angeles film noir "Chinatown" and the satire "Shampoo" among other movies, is thanked in the album credits. Nick Waterhouse deepens his love of soul and swing 2014-02-20T16:31:44Z Eventually, she found herself at the film noir version of the game: a seedy space above a restaurant just off Pennsylvania Avenue, not far from the World Bank. A 70-year-old socialite’s unlikely journey from Park Avenue to the poker table 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Imagine the book equivalent of a gorgeous film noir, set in 1950s Dublin and crackling with mysterious women, hard-drinking investigators, long-held secrets and fog so thick you could spoon it out of a stew pot. What our writers love this week 2011-01-19T22:47:04Z In part because it’s a little too retro — Mr. Niccol, between his chain-smoking male hero and mysteriously alluring heroine, wants a film noir overlay on his future, and it feels a bit self-conscious. ‘How It Ends’ and ‘No Blade of Grass’: Grim Visions of Tomorrow 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Pite's Grace Engine is dance as film noir, but with its scenes spliced, paused, replayed and panned. Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet – review 2012-10-12T11:23:48Z A seasonally inappropriate celebration of film noir continues with a big batch of flicks including 1948's "The Big Clock" starring Ray Milland and Charles Laughton. TV This Week, June 28 - July 4: 'Snowpiercer' and more 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Apart from the shootouts, evoking film noir of the 1940s, it’s the sheer scale of “Railway Heroes” that excites. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z I did see Three Billboards and, in spite of the film noir, really liked it maybe in part because of Woody and Frances. ‘The Shape of Water’ Wins Best Picture as Oscars Project Diversity 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z He remembered being drawn to film noir in his youth, telling her, “The haunting sounds have been there, the off-center instrumentals, ever since I was a child.” Angelo Badalamenti, Composer for ‘Twin Peaks,’ Is Dead at 85 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z If that’s not possible, watching just about any film noir will do, as it doesn’t require the effort of shifting out of a mood of hopelessness, misanthropy and despair. Stay alive until November 9! Tips for stress relief and self-care during election-pocalypse 2016 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Those sequences make me think of the film noir era and the way directors used black and white to augment the emotional tone of those stories. How the tragic imagery of "Better Call Saul," rendered in black & white, tells the "emotional story" 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z Then my palette came down considerably and I started explore a dark film noir quality in my work. As Gronk's set designs go on view at CAFAM, the artist talks opera, painting and B-movie crab monsters 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Thom Weaver’s lighting is the great technical asset, romantically moody in the early stages of Sandra and Luca’s relationship, then suggesting the ominous chiaroscuro of film noir when the plot thickens. Review: In ‘Sandra,’ a Search for a Friend Leads to Self-Discovery 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z She looks small and delicate, almost child-like, but when she starts talking about music, she launches fluently into extended semi-philosophical monologues on the nature of art, referencing everything from film noir to Chopin. Happy to be melancholy 2011-04-02T23:02:01Z This is a film noir without any crime or evildoing. My favorite best picture Oscar winner: The Lost Weekend 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z The desert blooms with melodrama and film noir, and the streets teem with cynicism, conspiracy and corruption. Movie Review: In ‘Omar,’ the West Bank Is a Backdrop for Betrayal 2014-02-20T23:28:48Z The ominous sound of doom emanates out of a heartbeat, distorted guitar, and film noir saxophone. In “The Crossing” Alejandro Escovedo has crafted a rock n roll immigration epic poem 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z As a teenager, he discovered Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” which proved a gateway drug to the rest of Hitchcock’s oeuvre, along with film noir and suspense novels like Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley series. Your Book Editor Just Snagged Your Spot on the Best-Seller List 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z “Woman in Shadows” once again suggests the influence of Mingus, as well as of film noir scores. David Sanford’s Music Has Flown Under the Radar. It Shouldn’t. 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z His plays’ explosively fraught alliances anticipated the dangerous domestic war games of writers like Edward Albee and the destructive passions of film noir. Reviews: ‘Mies Julie’ and ‘Dance of Death,’ Love and Madness in Strindberg 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z The Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, who makes American movies with film noir sensibility, has made “Drive,” the only other American film in competition besides “Tree of Life.” Movies: Cannes Festival Rolls Out a Very Red Carpet 2011-05-10T12:00:06Z There were retrospectives devoted to Stanley Kubrick and Joseph Losey that summer too —I know I saw “Lolita” and “The Killing,” “Boom!” and “The Servant” — and also a miscellany of melodrama, film noir and comedy. Film: Movie Love for Paris, City of Klieg Lights 2010-08-14T14:22:00Z Mr. Banderas is not the only actor who declaims his lines in a tone that turns the traditionally clenched, cryptic mood of film noir inside out. | 'The Big Bang': A Taste for Psychedelics and the God Particle 2011-05-12T23:22:16Z “Low Winter Sun,” a new AMC series that also begins on Sunday, has a classic film noir premise: a well-meaning sap is tricked into committing murder. Television Review: Killers Who Just Won’t Lighten Up 2013-08-08T22:34:06Z I look chic, fierce, intimidating and maybe a little dangerous, like a film noir heroine, not like my usual self. | The Stained Look Comes to Lipstick 2013-08-16T13:00:25Z Her 1949 movie, “Death Is a Caress,” to be shown at 12:45 and 6:45 p.m. on Friday, is considered Norway’s first film noir. The Week Ahead: April 24 ? 30 2011-04-22T14:36:40Z They create a literal living graphic novel by way of film noir, from the wry opening credits to the twisted irony of the pathological protagonist’s final statement. If Alfred Hitchock turned a graphic novel into live theater: It's the ingenious 'Historia de Amor' 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z But Welles turned adversity into a virtue, creating a brilliantly atmospheric film noir, as can be seen from this remarkable opening sequence which includes the scene Shakespeare never wrote: Othello and Desdemona's funeral. Othello does YouTube 2013-04-24T13:23:52Z The genre for which she was best remembered was dubbed film noir, which inclined toward hard-boiled realism, emphasizing the shady underside of human society, replete with ambiguity, cynicism and the ever-present possibility of betrayal. Lizabeth Scott, sultry femme fatale of Hollywood’s film noir, dies at 92 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z Audiard said the power of B movies - from 1930s horror films to 1940s film noir thrillers - is that they said something about the crisis-ridden world around them. Jacques Audiard praises B movies at Cannes 2012-05-20T11:04:10Z We were first introduced in 1999 by mutual friends who recognised two kindred spirits who share a love of the Marx brothers, film noir and the Smiths. Andrew Buckley and Ed Gaughan: How we made our Brit hit Skeletons 2010-10-21T22:00:00Z The Hunt for Tony Blair, which received its world premiere in Edinburgh on Friday, has Stephen Mangan playing the former prime minister in the 1950s-style film noir pastiche. Comic Strip returns with Tony Blair on the run in Channel 4 film noir comedy 2011-08-26T18:40:01Z While it's a seasonal movie not technically a Christmas movie, don't forget Hollywood's best-disguised film noir, "It's a Wonderful Life." Salon’s comments of the week: What’s “Hollywood’s best-disguised film noir”? 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Mr. Joffe has turned “Brighton Rock” into a full-scale film noir with the stylistic undertow of a more modern British gangster movie. | 'Brighton Rock': ?Brighton Rock,? Film of Graham Greene Novel - Review 2011-08-25T23:02:20Z Quite possibly the longest-running film noir series in the world, SAM’s 37th annual series “Live By Night” begins September 25th with an irresistible combination: “The Maltese Falcon” and Top Pot Doughnuts. Time for fall noir at Seattle Art Museum 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z “Nightmare Alley” is also the second filmed version of a novel, after the 1947 film noir of the same title. Four Best Picture Contenders Are Remakes. Does That Matter to Oscar Voters? 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z An ex-convict returns to her Appalachian roots in this debut novel that harks back to hard-boiled fiction and film noir even as it updates those venerable genres. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z This backdrop is part of the film, but it more properly takes place in the romantic world of film noir and the elevated realm of myth. In highlights of Cannes, a hush falls over the festival 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z A. I wanted to make a film noir, and you need a good tragedy and a good crime scene that can serve as a backdrop. Oscar Nominees for Best Foreign-Language Film Discuss Work 2012-02-20T22:38:12Z The lovers were shown as unsympathetically as they might have been in French film noir, and the weather was bad even by British standards. Googie Withers obituary 2011-07-16T09:19:52Z Ms. Williams shifts into a variety of assured impressions, including a hard-boiled film noir femme fatale and entitled white girl. In ‘2 Dope Queens’ a Duo Muses Over Life, and Stanley Tucci 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Norton’s understanding and appreciation of New York City is evident in “Motherless Brooklyn,” a film noir homage set in the 1950s that he wrote, directed, produced and stars in. Edward Norton’s ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ is a passion project both personal and professional 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Bowman loved film noir, but I don’t recall him caring particularly for film otherwise. David Bowman and the Furry-Girl School of American Fiction 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z But “Blue Velvet” presented film noir through the shocked and fascinated eyes of a Hardy Boy, who can’t believe what he’s seeing. A Searing First Encounter With David Lynch’s ‘Blue Velvet’ 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Step right up for degradation, as in the film noir “Nightmare Alley,” or disfigurement, as in the Tod Browning shocker “Freaks.” When the Creepy Carnival Comes to Town 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z For some reason, "Neither" reminded the Italian director of Hollywood film noir. 'Neither,' ignored in U.S., gets extravagant German staging 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z In its use of long takes, “Miss Bala” recalls another movie set in Tijuana: Orson Welles’s film noir masterpiece “Touch of Evil,” which Mr. Naranjo described as one of his favorites. Carpetbagger Blog: Canada and Mexico Aim for an Oscar Nomination Repeat 2011-12-14T18:14:55Z If I were as cynical as the hard-boiled characters of “Too Late,” I might scoff that each scene is overstuffed with fawning references to classic film noir, Quentin Tarantino and pulp novels. Review: In ‘Too Late,’ Imitation Is Sincere Flattery 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Here’s a novel midcentury-mystery pairing: Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” and “The Window,” a 1949 film noir directed by Ted Tetzlaff, who a few years earlier was the cinematographer on Hitchcock’s “Notorious.” What’s on TV This Week: Kennedy Center Honors and New Year’s Eve 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z Morgan's blog, "Sunset Gun," is heavy on film noir content. Telluride Film Festival names Guy Maddin, Kim Morgan guest directors 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z He was equally solid in “I Walk Alone,” a 1948 film noir in which he played the heavy in the first of his half-dozen pairings with his close friend Burt Lancaster. Kirk Douglas, a Star of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Dies at 103 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z And the tradition of film noir was very much inspiring. John Hillcoat Narrates a Scene From ‘Triple 9’ 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z This was the basis of the brief scenario that Truffaut, a fellow admirer of film noir and série noire pulp fiction, provided for . 50 years of Breathless 2010-06-05T23:04:00Z Jean-Luc Godard's "Breathless," the film noir that defined the French New Wave, celebrates its 50th anniversary with a week's run at the Egyptian in a newly restored 35 mm print. From Alfred Hitchcock to Woody Allen, film buffs have lots of choices this week 2010-10-07T19:38:00Z Not like the western, screwball comedy or film noir – these genres are different. Cowboys & Aliens: the Versus movie without Versus in its name 2011-08-12T23:11:02Z Seen from its most unflattering angle, it is a thin and derivative film noir. Film: A Fresh Look Back at Jean-Luc Godard?s ?Breathless? 2010-05-21T17:18:00Z “The Post,” starring Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep, may conjure up newspaper dramas like “Deadline — U.S.A.,” the 1952 film noir about crusading journalists that starred Humphrey Bogart and Ethel Barrymore. Who’s Who in ‘The Post’: A Guide to the Players in a Pivotal Era 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z The film noir - which received a positive response from critics when it was shown at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year - is the directorial debut of singer and actor Amit Kumar. Festival showcases independent Indian films 2013-07-19T10:19:14Z American science fiction draws heavily on American culture, of course—the war for independence, the Wild West, film noir, sixties psychedelia—and so humanity’s imagined future often looks a lot like America’s past. Liu Cixin Is China’s Answer to Arthur C. Clarke 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z "Dark Web: Cicada 3301" gives the actor the opportunity to riff on a film noir antihero. Jack Kesy is a chatty hacker in comic thriller "Dark Web," in which the truth is loosely defined 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z The dark themes of film noir classics are similar to the world of Greene's literature - known as Greeneland - in which the characters often face moral dilemmas. Leper colony novel would make great film, producer tells Greene fest 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z But she’s as riveting as the heroine of a 1940s film noir: her luster, her urgency and her enigma exert equal force. Dance: An Illuminating Swan, Then a Pure-Dance End 2010-02-17T23:34:00Z With three high-profile mysteries — “Inherent Vice,” “Gone Girl” and “Maps to the Stars” — it might seem as though film noir was the dominant flavor of this year’s New York Film Festival. At New York Film Festival, History and Detectives 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z I watched film noir before I knew it had a name, growing up with these black-and-white B-movies that appeared at odd hours on 70s television. 'A pas de deux of sex and violence': a poet's guide to film noir 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Offhandedly smart, always absurd, often hilarious, this digital video plays like a compilation reel of innumerable film noir and melodramatic clichés, and while it looks like two bucks it zings like a million play dollars. Critic?s Notebook: ?Views From the Avant-Garde? Film Series at Lincoln Center 2011-10-06T22:58:09Z Ephron's play, which opened Monday at the Broadhurst Theatre, has touches of film noir, a ton of testosterone and profanity and moments of humor but not too much elegance or heft. Review: Tom Hanks shines in messy 'Lucky Guy' 2013-04-02T02:16:03Z Doing a spin on something I’m a fan of, like film noir, and the hard-nosed detectives who talk with repartee. “Abattoir” director Darren Lynn Bousman serves up horror with noir ambitions 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z The seasonal rehanging includes five rooms focused on textiles and ceramics, as well as installations on the themes of film noir and smoking. Art to See in South Florida This Winter 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z “The Nut Job” is a Canadian-South Korean animated feature set in the American 1950s urban world of film noir. Movie Review: In ‘The Nut Job,’ a Surly Squirrel Plans a Heist 2014-01-17T00:05:05Z And I didn’t want to make a pastiche or an hommage to film noir. Film: Jim Thompson?s ?Killer Inside Me? Is Made Into a Film 2010-06-03T17:07:00Z Conversations about the beginnings of film noir, the crime thriller and the serial killer movie all usually end up in the same place – M, the 1931 German masterpiece directed by Fritz Lang. From The Hunger Games to Utøya and The Hate U Give: how cinema declared war on the young 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z After his feature film debut “Fear and Desire” in 1953, Stanley Kubrick followed it up with this film noir. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Grown-ish’ and ‘The Old Man’ 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z It cast Sterling as a film noir detective investigating Woodhouse's murder, killing him off instead of bringing in another actor to take on the role. The joy of Jessica Walter's final "Archer" missions before our favorite terrible mother abandons us 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z “A screwball comedy that turns into a film noir, as life itself does.” Something Genre Crossing, Something Bold 2011-05-13T23:03:02Z Her voice is as low and hardboiled as that of a film noir femme fatale, but her freewheeling air is pure 1930s screwball. Chloë Sevigny: ‘I now have total disdain for directors’ 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z That would to miss the point of this wanly diverting exercise, in which film noir dialogue is bleached to flat shades of gray. Review: ‘Every Angel Is Brutal’ Adds Kitsch to a ’70s Show 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Jesse went for crime novel and film noir inspiration, and Seth hewed to a 1940s' Russian and German military focus. 2010-02-12T23:07:00Z The visuals are sometimes as fluid and shadowy as anything in live-action film noir, but the sense of mystery eventually gives way to a formulaic finish. 'How to Train Your Dragon' breathes visual fire into 3-D tale of friendship 2010-03-24T23:35:00Z Johnson's feature debut - 2005's "Brick," a verbally stylized film noir set in a modern-day Southern California high school, also starring Gordon-Levitt - signaled him as an ambitious filmmaker with a distinctive voice. Review: `Looper' takes you to unexpected places 2012-09-26T01:55:08Z Because Mr. Eyre’s production sets the action in Nazi-occupied France, it has been billed as “film noir.” ‘Manon Lescaut’ at the Met Opera: A Courtesan in Need of Context 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Deakins photographed this darkly comic homage to film noir in lushly beautiful, striking black and white. 5 examples of cinematographer Deakins' best work 2012-11-08T21:23:14Z They’re classic examples of film noir, French style, and they subtly but surely fling the corruption and the fear of the Occupation back in the faces of French viewers. An Essential Retrospective of the French Filmmaker Jacques Becker at the Newly Renovated Film Forum 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z “Odds Against Tomorrow,” a naturalist film noir from 1959, is the meatiest of them — and his last picture for more than a decade, too. Harry Belafonte, Folk Hero 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z As someone who teaches film noir, I often think about the ways American cinema serves as a mirror to society. David Lynch’s chillingly prescient vision of modern America 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z He’s following that with “Under the Silver Lake,” a puzzle-filled homage to film noir starring Andrew Garfield. Home Is Where the Horror Is 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z One second it’s Spike, and then all of a sudden we’re into some film noir kind of thing. | Clarke Peters: Clarke Peters in ‘Red Hook Summer,’ Directed by Spike Lee 2012-07-27T16:31:40Z It’s a classic mid-century establishment, full of character and intimations of film noir mystery. ‘It has to be hot. It has to be creative’: Don Cheadle on his 10-year quest to play Miles Davis 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z And why does the tone sometimes dip into bad film noir, what with all that rain and thunder? Review: 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' is ill-conceived 2013-03-20T23:46:16Z Mr. Scorsese’s contribution is notable for exuding a sinister quality akin to the Weimar antecedents of film noir. The Late, Late Show With Martin Scorsese 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Jones’s woolly fantasy, set mostly in 1937, with frequent flights to 1998, begins like a film noir, with a reporter arriving at the scene of a crime. Review: In ‘Important Hats of the Twentieth Century,’ Saggy Jeans and Sweatshirts Make a 1930s Incursion 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Being a writer who describes his process as “filmic,” Mr. Connelly was responding on some level to cinematic portrayals of crime fiction, from the film noir era and beyond. Critic’s Notebook: Michael Connelly Wants to Make a Film About Frank Morgan 2012-06-05T21:15:15Z Smirking at its own putative cleverness, “The Big Bang” carries film noir parody into previously unexplored territory — particle physics — to address, if not to solve, the mystery to end all mysteries. | 'The Big Bang': A Taste for Psychedelics and the God Particle 2011-05-12T23:22:16Z I couldn’t see him, but I could sense him licking his lips in anticipation of my answer, like some old-time villain in a film noir. The sex-talking therapist I went to as a teen: “Do you want to learn how to be a woman, not a scared little girl?” 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z I watched three episodes and saw a poorly done film noir of the mob. ‘Vinyl’ Season 1 Finale: As Confused as Ever 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z It's a film noir without the darkness; only the trappings of the genre remain – the flashbacks, the Philip Marlowe trench-coat; life is refracted through an adolescence spent before a cinema screen. Truffaut: growing backwards into childhood 2011-02-19T00:05:31Z One of the great last lines in movie history is from the 1947 film noir “Nightmare Alley,” when two supporting characters catch a glimpse of the fallen hero: “How can a guy get so low?” These So-Called Bad Movies Prove the Urgency of Film Criticism 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Like Nick’s clients, “Reminiscence” oscillates between the past and the present, which fits a thriller nestled at the intersection of film noir and science fiction. ‘Reminiscence’ Review: Out of the Past, Into the Future (and Back) 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Would it be accurate to say that you’ve made a kind of film noir documentary, with an investigative reporter rather than a detective as your hero? The Carpetbagger: Starring a (Reluctant) Journalist 2014-02-25T20:25:00Z One of his best known, the 1936 “Street Scene, London,” resembles a production still from film noir. Review: ‘Grand Illusions’ Showcases Deceptive Photography 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z The film noir genre often explores the existential and psychological factors that drive people to crimes of passion. The anti-work movement in "Clerks," "Modern Times" & other films 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z In this gritty Los Angeles film noir from the director Karyn Kusama, Kidman plays Erin Bell, a detective so worn down by a lifetime of tragedy that she seems barely alive. Nicole Kidman Still Can’t Believe What ‘Destroyer’ Did to Her 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z It’s a five-part drama that is loyally, unwaveringly true to James M. Cain’s 1941 novel and somehow not nearly as satisfying as the 1945 film noir that took shameless liberties with plot, characters and settings. | 'Mildred Pierce': Battling the Depression for an Ungrateful Daughter 2011-03-24T11:00:00Z Yet it was perfectly suited to the sly, cryptic tidings of his lyrics, which might invoke romance, dreams, spiritual quests or the convoluted plotting of film noir. Tom Verlaine’s 15 Essential Songs 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z “Almost every critic has his own definition of film noir,” he wrote, “and a personal list of film titles and dates to back it up.” Want to Be an Instant Expert on Film Noir? Watch This Drama 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z He stars in Dave Boyle's atmospheric film noir "Man From Reno," which opens March 27. After 45 years, Pepe Serna is finally a leading man 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z Billy & Ray Director Billy Wilder and crime novelist Raymond Chandler collaborate on the classic 1944 film noir “Double Indemnity” in Mike Bencivenga’s comedy. L.A. theater openings, Oct. 9-16: Pat Kinevane's 'Underneath' and more 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z It almost changes genre and becomes like a thriller or film noir; you think things could go really wrong. "I decide with my heart": Penélope Cruz on her marriage, career and working with Pedro Almodóvar 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z Part of the moody fun of film noir is the music. Pontiac Bay Orchestra salutes film noir in June 6 concert 2010-06-04T18:22:00Z It has no place in pulp fiction or film noir. I don’t need air conditioning, and neither do you 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z With geometric sets and contemporary costumes evoking film noir, the production captures the emotional darkness of the story of the self-destructive King Gustavo, who is pursuing Amelia, the wife of his trusted adviser. Classical & Opera Listings for May 8-14 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z This is a classic film noir amnesia plot, brilliantly handled. Source Code ? review 2011-04-02T23:08:39Z Humphrey Bogart plays Richard Mason, a man who murders his wife in hopes of ending up with her sister, in this suspenseful film noir. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Saturday Night Live’ and ‘Hostages’ 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z It is a film noir in which humour turns poisonous, and Myra is going to end badly. David Thomson on Annette Bening 2010-10-27T22:40:00Z Irish actor Peggy Cummins, who left her mark as the brazen femme fatale in the film noir Gun Crazy, has died aged 92, having suffered a stroke. Peggy Cummins, Gun Crazy's iconic femme fatale, dies aged 92 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z But the compromised universe of film noir is how Congo and his Hollywood-inspired associates choose to dress up their part in purges which, across Indonesia, claimed an estimated half a million lives. Indonesian cinema and the rise of a new noir 2013-06-05T15:36:08Z About 25 performers act out mostly wordless scenes inspired by Shakespeare’s play while dressed in 1930s outfits and giving off a film noir vibe and an “Eyes Wide Shut” feel. Immersive theater experience ‘Sleep No More’ will end its 13-year New York City run in January 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z Levinson told Elle in August that Season 3 will be a “film noir” that explores, through the eyes of Zendaya’s character Rue, “what it means to be an individual with principles in a corrupt world.” 'Euphoria' Season 3 pushed back to 2025 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Not much is known about the plot of Season 3, though Levinson recently described the next chapter of “Euphoria” as a “film noir” in an interview with Elle. Everything we know about 'Euphoria,' Season 3: Expect a 'film noir' about a 'corrupt world' 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z She told BBC News her joke is delivered by a "film noir character with a mouth full of cigarettes". Edinburgh Fringe funniest joke: Lorna Rose Treen's zookeeper pun 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z Generally, you watched whatever was on, be it screwball comedy, film noir, war movie, swashbuckling adventure, costume drama or romantic melodrama — good or bad, it was broadening. Long live TCM! Our culture would be worse off without movies on TV 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z The term, of course, derives from “Gaslight,” the 1944 film noir that earned Ingrid Bergman an Oscar for her role as a woman driven mad by her husband, a covert criminal. Review: Wit and fury merge in Judith Bernstein's new paintings that scream 'Snap out of it' 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Will McKinley, a New York film writer, is dying to get his hands on a copy of “Alias Nick Beal,” a 1949 film noir starring Ray Milland as a satanic gangster. Column: How profit-driven turmoil at Turner Classic Movies placed a vast cultural heritage at risk 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z The indie crime drama “The Locksmith” has a fine film noir premise, delivered with a fair amount of oomph by a veteran cast and first-time feature director Nicolas Harvard. Review: Strong wills power 'Pamela, a Love Story' and 'True Spirit' on Netflix 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z The investigators’ conclusion, eight months later, could have been the plot of a film noir. Álvaro Colom, Guatemalan President Who Fought for the Indigenous, Dies at 71 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z I used to love film noir and black-and-white cinematography, especially people like James Wong Howe or Ossie Morris, their use of light. Q&A: Roger Deakins on cinema’s past and future 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z His trademark black-and-white shots and theatrical-like settings tapped into film noir. Italian photo master Barbieri's fashion works on exhibit in Milan 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z But he was troubled by the response to Hanaei’s murders — dubbed the “spider killings” by local media — and saw in the religious center of Mashhad the shadowy stuff of film noir. An exiled actress stars in a piercing portrait of Iran 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z “Out of the Blue” is so enamored of film noir tropes that the lead character is not just an ex-con, he’s also a librarian who spends nights watching Turner Classic Movies. Review: A film noir fan falls into a tedious trap in 'Out of the Blue' 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z ‘The Postman Always Rings Twice’ John Garfield is warm for Lana Turner’s form in this steamy 1946 film noir based on the James M. Cain novel. Classic movies in SoCal: 'Grease,' 'Pillow Talk,' 'Sleeping Beauty' and more 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z Or he has shape-shifted into Orson Welles’s Harry Lime — the oily, amoral black marketeer at the center of the 1949 film noir “The Third Man.” Perspective | A Trump-shaped monster returns to the Jan. 6 hearings 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Routinely considered one of the best American films of all time, “Double Indemnity” set the standard for film noir, and Criterion’s generous release makes for a fantastic gift for any film historian in the family. Father’s Day Gift Guide 2022: Best 4K Ultra HD movies 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z This time the storytelling is “an inside job,” said director Chris Eyre, resulting in what he describes as a “Native American, Southwestern film noir.” Navajo mystery series ‘Dark Winds’ seeks true storytelling 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z It feels more like film noir — deliciously dark, cynical and slightly amoral. 4 movies open April 29 at Seattle-area theaters; here’s what to see 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z “Memory” feels more like film noir — deliciously dark, cynical and slightly amoral — than a pulpy piece of rote storytelling. Review | Noirish ‘Memory’ is a cut above the average Liam Neeson action flick 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z It’s a stranger-than-fiction film noir crime caper involving Mormon theology, forensic science and a mysterious white salamander. Seattle Times staffers pick their 15 favorite TV shows of 2021 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z The jaded, sophisticated language, the glamorous Los Angeles architecture, the dramatic lighting — it’s all very film noir. Perspective | Three things Aaron Sorkin doesn’t understand: Comedy, sitcoms and women 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z ‘Niagara’ Marilyn Monroe is a Technicolor temptress in this 1953 film noir directed by Henry Hathaway. Classic movies in SoCal: ‘Pride & Prejudice,’ ‘Die Hard,’ ‘A Christmas Story’ and more 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z “Reminiscence” is an atmospheric film noir thriller set in a near future in which climate change has left Miami underwater and sharply divided by wealth. What to watch with your kids: ‘Paw Patrol: The Movie,’ ‘Reminiscence’ and more 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z He started recording his walks and his shaving sessions — where he’d discuss anything from his sober, vegetarian lifestyle to politics — and posting daily “Good Morning” images, often with a film noir bent and involving coffee. How George Hahn, Urban Raconteur, Spends His Sundays 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Anthony and Abel sketched the early character designs that would become Genesis Noir’s initial trio of film noir archetypes — turned “gods” in the language of the game — in charcoal. The visual jazz of Genesis Noir 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z Corporate funds also were spent on a flashy “film noir” inspired Crystal City office from which the company was ultimately evicted, along with unsuccessful ad campaigns. Founder of ‘Uber for private investigators’ sentenced to 8 years in prison 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z In doing so, she slyly turns the conventions of the film noir inside out. Review: Hungary's 'Preparations to Be Together … ' brilliantly turns noir inside out 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z A masterwork of style, tone and technical prowess, the gothic tale of obsession and suspense fused the kind of lush romance associated with “women’s pictures” of the era with the subversive shadowplay of film noir. Review | Netflix’s ‘Rebecca’ is a pale specter of Hitchcock’s original film 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z But in “S—house,” she’s as beguilingly elusive as any great film noir actress. Review: In ‘S–house,’ a college coming-of-age comedy 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z “Cut Throat City” is, at heart, film noir, but for the graffiti and graphic-novel age — a tale of bleakness and alienation told with bright hues, under an unforgiving sun. Review | ‘Cut Throat City’ is film noir for the graffiti and graphic-novel age 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z “I was living a film noir life,” he recalls. Review | Taking on the hardest cases — without DNA — and setting the innocent free 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Darrin added that when it came to producing the film noir there were no rehearsals and Hawks gave minimal direction for her to rely on. Sonia Darrin, femme fatale in Humphrey Bogart’s ‘The Big Sleep’ and mother of Mason Reese, dead at 96 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Like a film noir protagonist, she got in over her head, laundering her own selfishness and dissatisfaction with life through performative concern for Chantal’s fate. Search Party is the scathing millennial satire you need to binge 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z “She was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen. She was also well educated, funny and dressed magnificently, with a wink to ‘40s film noir. Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten on being a caretaker for his wife with dementia: ‘The real person is still there’ 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z And so the Stephen Hague version starts off like a film noir with someone walking down the street. Neil Tennant on West End Girls: 'It's about sex and escape. It's paranoid' 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Who has never seen the mesmerizing female psychopaths of film noir? Opinion | Joe Says It Ain’t So 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z Now celebrating its 22nd year, “Noir City: Hollywood” is further proof, if proof were necessary, that this sunny town is a perfect showcase for the dark dramas and doomed relationships of the film noir genre. ‘Noir City: Hollywood’ returns with Rita Hayworth, military films and David Mamet 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z She brought ugly chic to fashion, married film noir styling to frumpiness with aplomb, and always questioned the place of fashion in the political and cultural spheres. Raf Simons Becomes Co-Creative Director at Prada 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z You’ve mentioned the whodunit genre’s overall moral clarity, where there’s a killer who’s caught at the end, and in some ways it’s the opposite of a film noir. Why Rian Johnson wanted to make Knives Out a modern-day whodunit 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Also, I think it’s in keeping with the genre, the whodunit genre — and this is what sets it apart from Hammett and Chandler and the fiction the film noir came out of. 'Knives Out' ending explained: How Rian Johnson's socially relevant mystery pays tribute to the past 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z The result is a stylish film noir that features the unique whistling language born on the Spanish island La Gomera. Watch for these five films, dramatic and absurd, in the international Oscar category 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Based, rather loosely, on Jonathan Lethem’s novel, it’s an overstuffed attempt at film noir, filled with beautifully photographed faces and nostalgic shots of New York. ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ review: Lovely but overstuffed film noir from Edward Norton 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z “I’m not used to having to follow a story in a Cirque show,” Rodriguez says, “so I thought it would be a unique opportunity — a modern film noir.” Cirque du Soleil, angling for a younger audience, bets big in Vegas on 'R.U.N' 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z His focus on only two genres — action and science fiction — results in a highly selective reading of the zeitgeist, akin to judging the 1940s and 1950s solely through the lens of film noir. Review | In 1980s politics and movies, a longing for lost innocence 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Moral order is restored at the end of a whodunit in a way it never is in film noir. 'Knives Out' ending explained: How Rian Johnson's socially relevant mystery pays tribute to the past 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z But the work, a low-boil film noir sitcom, suffers from a similar aimlessness. Review: Ethan Coen lifts the curtain on 'A Play Is a Poem,' but there's no rhyme, no reason 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Seattle’s most delicious fall film tradition continues this season: the 42nd annual film noir series at Seattle Art Museum. Fall movies 2019: The most anticipated films, from ‘Downton Abbey’ to Tom Hanks as Mister Rogers 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z And also ‘The Killers’ where she played a femme fatale in a great film noir. Ava Gardner struggled to be taken seriously and Walter Brennan found fame despite accident, says film expert 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Two of history’s greatest lovers meet their fates as Shakespeare Orange County puts a film noir spin on the Bard’s romantic tragedy “Antony and Cleopatra.” 9 Weekend Picks: ‘Into the Woods,’ Robyn, Forever Flamenco and more 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z Our first mass-watched reality show was part soap opera, part film noir and part farce, as a Heisman trophy-winning American hero wanted for double murder led a phalanx of police in tow. Essential California: What it was like to photograph the O.J. Simpson Bronco chase 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z And, like a classic film noir plot, it is the story of a person framed for a crime they didn’t commit. 'You stole my cheese!': the seven best Post-it note wars 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z “It Follows” was certainly dark, but film noir is its own aesthetic. Composer Disasterpeace has gone from ‘Fez’ to film. Next up? 'Under the Silver Lake' 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z The production is a dreamlike retelling of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, meshing a film noir aesthetic with dance, acting, written clues, audio effects, physical theatre, and audience interactivity across tens of rooms. 'Playable shows are the future': what Punchdrunk theatre learned from games 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z But “Serenity,” one very leaky vessel indeed, has a strange, heightened atmosphere that goes well beyond the usual thickened air of film noir. Film Review: ‘Serenity’ now? No thank you 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z This particular fantasy relies on simple but effective character tropes culled from film noir, classic literature and other well-known dramatic traditions. Review: WALSH/TNS ‘Serenity’ 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z As one of Hollywood’s most bankable and versatile filmmakers, Bryan Singer has taken on superheros, film noir, World War II and ’70s rock ‘n’ roll. Bryan Singer faces new misconduct allegations in Atlantic article 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z But the veteran femme fatale who famously starred opposite Humphrey Bogart in the 1941 film noir “High Sierra” didn’t seem to feel sorry for herself. Ida Lupino was a recluse in her final years, never saw herself as a feminist in Hollywood, says pal 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z All these plush, disorienting textures – drawn from 60s France and film noir soundtracks, at once expansive and claustrophobic – speak of a small coterie of contributors and go-to producer James Ford going all in. The 50 best albums of 2018: the full list 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z One theme, however, would fit just as comfortably in classic film noir as in absurdist comedy: Powerful, aging men brought low by their own pathetic desire to believe comely young women are really into them. Lessons of Maria Butina: Are men too easily flattered by young women to be trusted with power? 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z Denise Williams, 48, reportedly showed no emotion as the verdict was delivered Friday in Leon County after a week-long trial that included details of threesomes and drew comparisons to the film noir classic “Double Indemnity.” Woman convicted of plotting with lover to kill husband, collect $1.75 million life insurance benefits 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z "Sex, lies and deceit," was how Assistant State Attorney Jon Fuchs described the case against 48-year-old Denise Williams, which resembles the plot of the famed 1940s film noir classic "Double Indemnity." Florida trial features homicide, infidelity and alligators 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Riverdale is a high school soap opera crossed with film noir. Netflix’s new Sabrina series finds a smart metaphor in Satanism 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z But there are less crude comparisons too, the film noir element exists in both, as does the gripping cliff-hangers and moments of horror. Does the Sabrina reboot live up to the hype? 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z “What’s in the back and front of my mind is sharing the world’s best content, whether that’s Japanese anime, Turkish telenovelas, the film noir of the Nordics,” Hastings told the Financial Times. Netflix criticizes EU over ‘content quota’ 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Narrow and claustrophobic, they loom like set pieces for a film noir. The Case of Jane Doe Ponytail 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z The angles looked even better at night, so it became film noir’s outdoor shooting stage. How I write: Man Booker shortlist authors reveal their inspirations 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z Danny McBride is at his funniest and scariest in “Arizona,” a darkly comic film noir that works well as both a violent thriller and as a ruthless satire of over-extended American dreamers. Review: Danny McBride raises all kinds of crazy in the satiric thriller ‘Arizona’ 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z My dissertation was on hard-boiled fiction and film noir, the American studies bent to it. Megan Abbott on "Give Me Your Hand" 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z The first feature from writer-director Cory Finley, “Thoroughbreds” is a darkly comic tale — shot through with the hard-boiled fatalism of film noir — about two teenage girls in an affluent Connecticut suburb of New York. Review | ‘Thoroughbreds’ is a ‘Double Indemnity’ subbing in two calculating Connecticut girls 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z The collection was filtered through inspirations that included film noir and the social scene of Berlin circa the early 1980s. Clare Waight Keller finds her footing at Givenchy with a dark and glamorous 'Night Noir' collection 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z In the original 1990–91 ABC series, Lynch and Frost borrowed elements from serialized TV, like daytime soaps and police procedurals, and classic Hollywood, like film noir and lurid melodramas. The Twin Peaks: The Return Blu-ray set explains what the show is 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z “I really like film noir and art deco styles, which influenced my illustration style for this particular project,” he says. How two artists imagined the worlds of Philip K. Dick in Folio Society’s beautiful new book 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z When you look at a holiday spent alone at the right angle, it becomes a sun-lit film noir wonderland. Patton Oswalt: How to Conquer Loneliness During the Holidays 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Dismissed by critics, abandoned by audiences, mocked for a last-minute voice-over its credited screenwriters abhorred, its nervy mixture of science fiction and film noir was pronounced dead on arrival. 'Blade Runner 2049' delivers a visually dazzling follow-up 35 years after the original 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z As Carlson notes: “Playboy clubs were not like sleazy nightclubs in film noir movies. They weren’t threatening in that sense.” In the 1970s culture wars, it was Hugh Hefner v feminism | Samira Ahmed 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z On Sept. 28, “The Big Sleep” will be the opening film in “Here Comes the Night,” Seattle Art Museum’s 40th annual Thursday-night series devoted to the irresistibly shadowed art of film noir. SAM’s film-noir series launches its 40th year with ‘The Big Sleep’ 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z His sleepy eyes and boxer’s nose were a natural for film noir and he became one of the biggest postwar movie stars. What The Times' critics said about eight of Robert Mitchum's best-known roles 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z While “Twin Peaks” is a deliberately inscrutable ode to film noir and rustic Americana, toeing the tightrope between camp and beguiling mystery, “Lost Falls” is often inscrutable to the point of tedium. Review: ‘Lost Falls’ is a little David Lynch, a lot Cafe Nordo 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Finally, several readers wondered if an article recommending “moody film noir classics” on Amazon Prime was actually a paid placement by Amazon. Opinion | Friday Mailbag: A Patriots Photo Lets Trump Score a Point 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z “Unforgettable” borrows elements from film noir, Lifetime movies and slasher flicks and updates them for the Internet age. Review | Toxic-relationship thriller ‘Unforgettable’ is uninspired 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z He’s an erudite cinephile and former critic, drawing equal inspiration from the French and Taiwanese New Wave, and his films knowingly manipulate the genre codes of film noir, horror and coming-of-age story. Director Olivier Assayas' films are obsessed with public image and female celebrity, including his latest, 'Personal Shopper' 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z “Neruda” is a delightful mishmash of two disparate genres: the biopic and film noir. Review | ‘Neruda’: The Chilean poet-politician comes into focus in a noirish biopic 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z False humility aside, these are adjectives that generally apply to Patrick Harlow’s spoofy adaptation, so broadly imagined that it confuses Hitchcock’s lean wrong-man thriller for a brand of florid film noir. Village Theatre’s ‘39 Steps’ takes Hitchcock for a frantic ride 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z I just read the article in tonight’s online edition about great old film noir classics now available to Amazon Prime subscribers, complete with in-story links to their pages on Amazon Prime. Opinion | Friday Mailbag: A Patriots Photo Lets Trump Score a Point 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Though it is a serious documentary about a devastating subject, "The Uncondemned" has a title that makes it sounds a bit like a 1940s film noir. The not-so-hidden atrocities of war get their day in court in 'The Uncondemned' 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The story provided the inspiration for the film noir The Third Man starring Orson Welles. The Female Correspondent Who Scooped the World 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z The French not only named film noir but it turns out they also had a gift for working in this dark and twisty genre. French film noir series screens in Santa Monica 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z A particular favorite of his was the 1950 film noir “In a Lonely Place,” starring Humphrey Bogart and directed by Nicholas Ray. Curtis Hanson dead at 71; 'L.A. Confidential' thrust him to the forefont of American directors 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z If you’re interested in film noir, this list is for you. Opinion | Friday Mailbag: A Patriots Photo Lets Trump Score a Point 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z This one, a film noir about a doctor unraveling the mystery of what happened to a patient she fatally ignored, sounds unusually dramatic, while well inside their wheelhouse. The weird, wild films we can't wait to see at this year's Toronto Film Fest 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z That said, most scholars conclude that film noir continued into the late 1950s, so Vieira doesn’t rule out the alluring possibility of a sequel. The new book ‘Into the Dark’ illuminates the shadows of film noir classics 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z A bleak film noir disguised as a boxing picture, "Champion" made Douglas a star and also got him the first of three Oscar nominations. As Kirk Douglas turns 100, a major UCLA retrospective looks at his amazing body of work 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z He first became obsessed with the dark underworld while watching film noir in the movie theater owned by his sister and her husband. The Life of Mexico's Premiere Crime Photographer 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z As for our recommendation for what to watch on Amazon Prime, though it’s not a moody film noir classic, we highly endorse “The Americans.” Opinion | Friday Mailbag: A Patriots Photo Lets Trump Score a Point 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z This year’s festival includes seven archival films, among them a Chinese silent classic, a Technicolor dream from Old Hollywood, an Argentine film noir and a long-lost Orson Welles tour de force. 7 great old films you can see at SIFF 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z The term “film noir” was not coined until 1946 by French critic Nino Frank and did not achieve common usage in the U.S. for another quarter century. The new book ‘Into the Dark’ illuminates the shadows of film noir classics 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z In “Dheepan,” which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival last year, he travels from war movie to migrant drama to film noir, adding an atypically happy ending, to boot. Review: In Paris-set ‘Dheepan,’ a timely refugee thriller 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z The great risk, though, is that Europe and Russia find themselves in a film noir, where the villain’s plot fails but takes everyone down with it. Quantum of silence 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Cass finds herself on the periphery of a series of murders that involve film noir, Paleolithic icons and former musicians whose fleeting fame ended decades ago. Cassandra Neary returns in ‘Hard Light’ by Elizabeth Hand 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Somehow “The Night Manager” manages to be as menacing and methodical as any film noir, yet at the same time teem with color, sweep and action cloaked in stillnesss. Hugh Laurie, Tom Hiddleston light up AMC’s ‘Night Manager’ 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z The central Chinatown District looks like it dropped in from a 1940s film noir. LARK GOULD: Eye on Hawaii: How to find paradise in the Pacific 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Called “The Girl Who Fell to Earth,” the packed show drew its inspiration from 1940s science-fiction film noir, said Ms. Dellal. In London, Shoes Steal the Spotlight 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z In film noir, coffee keeps the detective up all night when he’s on a stakeout and has this feverish, intense quality to it. Why Hollywood is addicted to coffee, and always has been 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Their recent series introduces the 1950s hollywood portrait style, matched with the elusiveness of film noir: a style they say best reflects the atmosphere they felt in Egypt. These Are the Faces of Egypt’s Revolutionaries 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Deen’s casting opposite Lindsay Lohan in The Canyons, a film noir directed by Paul Schrader, the screenwriter of Taxi Driver, underlined his potential for crossover success, though critics panned the film. Porn industry groups cut ties to star James Deen amid sexual assault claims 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z You sit down expecting a superhero show and actually it's a film noir detective show, but then it's not that either, it's a psychological drama, and it keeps confounding you. David Tennant on Marvel's 'Jessica Jones' and the pains of playing a purple psychopath 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z In a modern twist on film noir, the series follows its title character as she tries to solve a case while dealing with her terrible past. Review: Jessica Jones is the complex (super) heroine we’ve been waiting for 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z The new 13-episode series focuses on a former superhero turned detective who, like the best film noir characters, battles demons external and, more particularly, internal. Krysten Ritter on playing anti-superhero, Jessica Jones 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Will McKinley, a New York film writer, is dying to get his hands on a copy of "Alias Nick Beal," a 1949 film noir starring Ray Milland as a satanic gangster. Too many classic films remain buried in studios' vaults 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z The public’s love of the gangster boomed again in the late 1940s with film noir hoods like actor Richard Widmark, and crested in the 1970s with The Godfather movies. Why We Have Loved Gangster Movies for 100 Years 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Through the 1950s, the troubled vet routinely surfaced as a character in film noir, often as the villain. Their war ended 70 years ago. Their trauma didn’t. 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z As a young man, he had a featured role in the 1947 film noir classic “Out of the Past,” which starred Kirk Douglas and Robert Mitchum. Dickie Moore, child star of the 1930s, dies at 89 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z As a young man, he had a featured role in the 1947 film noir classic "Out of the Past," which starred Kirk Douglas and Robert Mitchum. Dickie Moore, child star of the 1930s who appeared in 'Our Gang' comedies, dies at 89 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z After attending the 2013 South by Southwest film festival in Austin, he began writing "Two Step," a gritty, character-driven film noir that opens in Los Angeles on Friday. 'Two Step' director Alex Johnson takes his time in Texas-flavored film debut 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z This isn’t fiction film noir–it’s a multilevel bureaucracy with multiple levels of data backup, archiving, and storage. A Congressman, A CDC Whisteblower And An Autism Tempest In A Trashcan 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z In 1949’s film noir classic “The Third Man,” Orson Welles quips: “In Switzerland, they had brotherly love 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.” H.R. Giger documentary ‘Dark Star’ shows Oscar-winning Swiss artist’s dream world 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z For some reason there is also a little film noir detective thing coming into play. Design, Bitches' colorful aesthetic is all over the map Despite the cast and director changes, and despite a final product that looked night-and-day different from the expressionistic film noir looks of the Burton pictures, Batman Forever didn’t start over. Why Marvel's 'Spider-Man' Should Mimic 'Batman Forever' 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Scott physically resembled Bacall and even appeared opposite Bacall's husband Bogart in the 1947 film noir entry "Dead Reckoning" about a military veteran who encounters her in his quest to solve his war buddy's murder. Actress Lizabeth Scott, femme fatale in 1940s-1950s film noir movies, dies 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z It's an epic and hilarious story that spans years, combining elements from Mexican folklore and film noir to create a truly unique and wonderful world that you just want to walk around in and explore. Grim Fandango Remastered might be the perfect video game remake 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z “This is getting to be like a script from a Grade B, film noir novel,” the judge commented. Teen charged with killing mom in Bali can use trust fund 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z It's not film noir in a theme-y way, but it somehow ended up in the mix, and we're all excited about it. Design, Bitches' colorful aesthetic is all over the map “It only took brains, courage, and a gun,” Hope announces in his 1947 parody film noir, “My Favorite Brunette.” When Bob Hope Was Funny 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z While her fame faded with time, she was recognized as one of the most important and prolific film noir actresses. Actress Lizabeth Scott, femme fatale in 1940s-1950s film noir movies, dies 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z Part of that look comes from Mr. Benskin’s fondness for film noir, a holdover from years of watching classic films. Don't Call Clay Benskin a Street Photographer 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z It happened with film noir and then westerns, it happened to the spy movies of the 1960s, and then to the gritty crime dramas of the ’70s. The superhero bubble is destined to burst. Is Warner Bros. making a mistake? Sure, the lead character is a stoner drifting through a film noir. Inherent Vice is the best or worst movie of the season, depending on who you ask 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Men were drawn to the effortless cool displayed by detectives in slick film noir crime thrillers, while alluring leading ladies such as Marlene Dietrich provided a template for women to follow. The trench coat's forgotten WW1 roots 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z "What you call film noir I call psychological drama," Scott once said. Actress Lizabeth Scott, femme fatale in 1940s-1950s film noir movies, dies 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z The atmosphere and slightly darker writing and almost film noir framing sequence is most excellent. The Verge reviews 'The Simpsons' seasons one and two 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z Blade Runner drags the dark, lonely, dirty Los Angeles of Raymond Chandler and film noir into a darker, lonelier and dirtier future. My favourite city film is … Blade Runner 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z “To me, film noir provides a feeling and sensibility that exudes mystique, allure, and elegance.” Montage Beverly Hills Marks City's Centennial With Glamorous Film Noir Suite 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z "And by the time of World War Two they were becoming strongly linked with film noir and Humphrey Bogart. "He embodied that trench 'attitude'. The trench coat's forgotten WW1 roots 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z Wallis cast Scott in the 1945 romance "You Came Along," which led him to use her in a succession of film noir movies. Actress Lizabeth Scott, femme fatale in 1940s-1950s film noir movies, dies 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z Vivian Rutledge, the lead female character in the movie version of Chandler’s “The Big Sleep,” is stuck in a classic film noir world. The Lauren Bacall standard 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Frankly, if you consider Batman to be something of a timeless fantasy/1940′s film noir, then Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is basically the heir apparent to the modern comic book superhero adaptation. Review: 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Is A Cowabummer 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Though a straightforward crime drama, “Key Largo” is enriched by the thorny moral dilemmas common to the genre of film noir, in which cynical self-interest wrestles with self-sacrifice. Make Screen on the Green a marquee event The ECB must allay it when it publishes its findings this autumn if the sunny storyline is to prevail over the film noir. Losing the plot 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z In a tweet: The soundtrack to the festival film noir of your lives. Lana Del Rey at Glastonbury 2014 review – a kohl-smudged dose of summertime sadness 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z Making the movies, which vault from film noir to bizarre musical, eventually gets under Anwar’s skin and into his dreams; the pearly killer is finally afflicted with nightmares. The Top 10 Best Movies of 2013 2013-12-05T08:05:25Z But instead of zombies, players find themselves in a neon-pink Brooklyn with all the trappings of film noir: the femme fatale, the Venetian blinds, the hard-boiled detective. 'The Wolf Among Us: Episode 1' Review: Neon Noir (PC) 2013-10-17T17:54:00Z But the game appears to be more film noir than horror. Clues From The 'BioShock Burial At Sea' DLC Reveal 2013-08-01T15:12:00Z The result is a surreal tableau of garish make-up and outlandish costumes set in kitschy film noir scenes or against stunning Sumatran backdrops. How Asia Still Struggles with Histories of Genocide 2013-07-18T05:35:25Z Set against the backdrop of Hollywood's so-called Golden Age, the film is shot in comic-book colours and heavily influenced by the film noir of that era. Gangster Squad: Resurrecting the mob movie 2013-01-11T01:47:06Z They were able to recapture and translate a genre onto tablet with the power of video, old film noir footage, archived interviews, music, and more. Startup Noir 2012-09-04T15:15:35Z The film noir sees Crawford's character defined by her struggle to provide for her ruinous daughter, minus a hero figure. Hollywood heroines: Here to stay? 2012-08-13T23:36:37Z There were always elements of film noir in Irrational’s original BioShock, but these were overshadowed by the scariness of the setting, the emptiness of the city itself. Clues From The 'BioShock Burial At Sea' DLC Reveal 2013-08-01T15:12:00Z He’s funny in a film noir sort of way, describing the adventures of The Kid in real time. The Innovative Indie Goodness That Is 'Bastion' 2012-07-15T03:49:08Z We know Bogart is doomed when we watch film noir. Lessons from Sherlock Holmes: How do you kill your hero? 2012-07-09T19:15:03.597Z The coffee was so strong that my vision took on the character of a shaky film noir — but it fought the jet lag. Visiting Bob 2012-03-21T18:21:08.997Z You’ve seen her in a thousand guises, from film noir actresses, aging socialites, clergymen and clowns: photographer Cindy Sherman has used herself as a model to explore the nature and power of images. Cindy Sherman, Van Etten’s Tramp, Rattle, Glass: NYC Weekend 2012-02-24T15:28:44Z This game is film noir style, simple, yet eery black and white. The Film Noir Gaming Simplicity Of LIMBO 2012-02-07T14:59:50Z This is the stuff of bad film noir: the obsessed, chain-smoking detective, rewinding the crime scene footage in the dead of night, suddenly noticing a suspicious black sedan in the background. The Fifth Down: Week 17 Matchups: A Playoff Handshake 2011-12-30T12:02:26Z You knew you were dealing with detective fiction—just like viewers who saw Bogart of Belmondo go to their deaths knew ahead of time that they were about to see a film noir. Lessons from Sherlock Holmes: How do you kill your hero? 2012-07-09T19:15:03.597Z Ad makers use limousine shots to portray rivals as privileged louts, perhaps with black-and-white images of the Capitol for a touch of film noir. The Caucus: Presidential Campaign Ads Are Tried and True 2011-10-31T01:12:55Z That’s where a novelist named Stine and his fictional private eye named Stone duke it out for control of the screenplay bringing their convoluted film noir story to the screen. | Connecticut: Review ? ?City of Angels? at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam 2011-10-29T05:39:18Z But the more telling movie expression was film noir, the great genre of fatalistic crime films, deeply saturated with dark shadows and postwar cynicism. In post-9/11 movies, even superheroes struggle to save the day 2011-08-11T06:04:16Z The role was famously played by Joan Crawford in a 1945 film noir. Winslet US drama leads Emmy race 2011-07-14T14:42:18Z As the developer's website explains, "Events unfold as an engaging film noir style mystery, and the hero quickly comes to realize that in this brave new world, nothing is quite as it seems." Ex-Halo staff announce 2D platform shooter 2011-03-08T10:12:48Z The advertisement opens like a French film noir, showing portraits of melancholy-looking men standing against a shadowy black-and-white backdrop of menacing New York City streets. New York?s H.I.V. Ad Divides Activists 2011-01-04T01:10:05Z He’s world famous by now, beloved, and the Italians easily brought up the links to film noir and Antonioni. Abroad: Hopper and Zille: Stars of Their Own World 2010-04-28T23:23:00Z |
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