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a movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters
film noir was applied by French critics to describe American thriller or detective films in the 1940s
How To Use film noir In A Sentence
- Film noir completists will certainly want to add this to their collection, especially for the budget price, but others are advised to wait until the next entries in the ‘Fox Film Noir’ line.
- Alas, no predictable film noir classics with Bette Davis nor a camp singalong to The Sound of Music, but you'd be hard pushed not to find something tantalising in Glasgay!
- It remains one of Polanski's best, and a precursor to themes he would continually dabble in: tortured relationships, bizarre blonde behavior, infidelity, cross-dressing, even film noir via the stalwart Lionel Stander (best known here for his role in Hart to Hart but who should be known as the blacklisted, veteran hard-boiled American character actor). Kim Morgan: Ten of Polanski's Best...Kitty Cat
- I love the lighting in this film that recalls German expressionist silent film, pictorialism and later film noir. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
- The film noir narrative usually plays out not in the brightly lit kitchen of a comfortable home but at night in dimly lit back streets.
- Tetchy, funny, ugly and clever, this replays the dynamic of a first-class film noir.
- DVD Focus 'The Limey' (1999) Steven Soderbergh directed and Lem Dobbs wrote this slyly funny, spasmodically violent film noir in which the title character, a white-haired obsessive named Wilson (Terence Stamp), shows up in Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. Soderbergh Goes 'Haywire' With a Fast, Stylish Thriller
- America's classic modes of movie-making, from the western to film noir, reflect the self-image of its people.
- Most of the criticism was levied at the admittedly odd choice of a very 1940's film noir-ish photo, the antiquated use of the word 'drawers' and the total irrelevance of the headline in relation to its subject matter. Rachel Lloyd: The Power Behind Policing Fashion
- film noir was applied by French critics to describe American thriller or detective films in the 1940s