Ergebnis für "Noir" in Unterhaltung & Darstellende Künste

In this intensive, intimate, and anything-but-glamorous behind-the-scenes account, film insider and cinephile Paul M. Sammon explores how Ridley Scott used his creative genius to transform the work of science fiction's most uncompromising author into a critical sensation, a commercial success, and a cult classic that would reinvent the genre.

Turner Classic Movies host and Dark City Dames author Eddie Muller and Criterion Channel host Imogen Sara Smith offer an essential tour of international film noir, highlighting renowned movie classics and obscure noir masterpieces from around the world. Film noir has long been considered...

This revised and expanded edition of Eddie Muller's Dark City is a film noir lover's bible, taking readers on a tour of the urban landscape of the grim and gritty genre in a definitive, highly illustrated volume. Dark City expands with new chapters and a fresh collection of restored photos that...

Noir emerged as a prominent American film genre in the early 1940s, distinguishable by its use of unusual lighting, sinister plots, mysterious characters, and dark themes. From The Maltese Falcon (1941) to Touch of Evil (1958), films from this classic period reflect an atmosphere of corruption and social decay that attracted such accomplished directors as John Huston, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, and Orson Welles.

Bloomsbury Presents The Night of the Hunter, read and written by Simon Callow The Night of the Hunter (1955) was Charles Laughton's only film as director. Part expressionist horror movie, part luminous fairy tale, it contains some of the most haunting images in cinema. Willa (Shelley Winters)...

The Thin Man films are one of the most highly regarded and successful series of films from Hollywood's classic era. This book looks at the people who populated the films, including full chapter profiles of its stars, William Powell and Myrna Loy, whose chemistry together was a huge reason for...

Quando Giada, rientrando in casa, trova sua madre Ada morta nella vasca da bagno, con una ferita alla testa, la sua prima reazione è chiamare il padre: l'ispettore Andrea Pantaleo. Subito dopo, gli chiede di poter seguire insieme il caso: aveva già deciso di voler entrare in polizia e ora è convinta che questo la aiuterà a reagire meglio alla perdita. E poi un altro ancora, e anche stavolta la vittima è una giovane donna che fin da subito sembra celare nel suo passato un segreto inconfessabile.

Film noir: the name comes from the French for “black” or “dark film.” It points to the central feature of the genre: mood. There is a darkness about film noir, a somberness accompanied by a thrill of dread and ever-present danger. This aura envelops wealthy heiresses, English aristocrats, tough-guy drifters, jazz musicians, drug dealers, and respected schoolteachers—all of whom have secrets to hide and much to lose if those secrets are unveiled.

A self-writing 1930s noir radio serial that never repeats. Every case stands alone — start anywhere, no catch-up required. A nameless detective, a city that keeps its books in the dark, and a world that only grows: every case is written, voiced, and scored by an autonomous pipeline against a persistent canon. Tune in at endlessnoir.com, where the station plays the whole run start to finish, around the clock. And stay tuned: the classic radio programs this station descends from ran longer than our early cases, so the broadcasts ahead are growing to match — more case per case, double ...

From King Kong to Candyman, the boundary-pushing genre of horror film has always been a site for provocative explorations of race in American popular culture. This book offers a comprehensive chronological survey of Black horror from the 1890s to present day. In this second edition, Robin R. Means Coleman expands upon the history of notable characterizations of Blackness in horror cinema, with new chapters spanning the 1960s, 2000s, and 2010s to the present, and examines key levels of Black participation on screen and behind the camera. The book addresses a full range of Black horror films.

Noir - as a style, movement, or sensibility - has its roots in hardboiled detective fiction by writers like Chandler and Hammett, and films adapted from their novels were among the first called "film noir" by French cineastes. But film isn't the only medium with a taste for a dark story. Hundreds of noir dramas have been produced for television, featuring detectives and femmes fatales, gangsters, and dark deeds, continuing week after week, with a new disruption of the social order. In TV Noir, television historian Allen Glover presents the first complete study of the subject.

For a tour of noir cinema, No Daylight in That Face is the perfect companion, and Barry Gifford is an ideal guide. His choice selection of films exposes the menacing, moody, and oftentimes violent underbelly of this dark movie genre that occupies a favorite niche in American popular culture...

L’ex investigatore Marco Tanzi ha lasciato Milano da più di due anni. Nessun saluto, nessuna spiegazione, sua figlia e il suo migliore amico hanno provato invano a rintracciarlo, prima di rassegnarsi. Ora vive dall’altra parte del mondo: è capo scorta sulle navi mercantili in transito nel...

In this revised and expanded edition of his essential volume Dark City Dames, Eddie Muller—Turner Classic Movies host and author of Dark Cityand Noir Bar—offers a uniquely intimate look at the women who defined film noir, now featuring updated text and 10 new star profiles. Film noir was the...

Produced during the height of the post-World War II film noir movement, Blood on the Moon is a classic Western immersed in the film noir netherworld of double crosses, government corruption, shabby barrooms, gun-toting goons, and romantic betrayals. With this volume, biographer and noir expert Alan K. Rode brings the film to life for a new generation of listeners and film lovers.

Wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome! To ja, Lola Noir, śpiewająca artystka burleski i kabaretu, guru glamouru, wielbicielka prosecco i stylu retro. Na scenie robię show, a tutaj rozmawiam o sztuce, o tym jak żyć dobrym życiem i o luksusie jako stanie umysłu, a nie stanie portfela. To przestrzeń przyjazna dla wszystkich, gdzie czasem będę sama mówić o tym co mi w duszy gra, a czasem zaproszę gości, gościnie i osoby gościnne ze świata artystycznego i nie tylko, żeby pogadać co gra u nich.

La cosa se pone interesante con el Pinot Noir y el Nebbiolo, ambas tienen sus trucos, pero cuentan con grandes aficionados. Con una de estas uvas se hizo un vino cotizado en 500 mil dólares. Descubre cuál es...

The films, the stars, the filmmakers-all get their due in Hollywood Black, a sweeping overview of blacks in film from the silent era through Black Panther, with striking photos and an engrossing history by award-winning author Donald Bogle. The story opens in the silent film era, when white...

If you're watching a movie where a world-weary detective is having trouble with a "dame" or a "broad", and cigarette smoke is wafting through the scene - you're probably appreciating a bit of "film noir". Film noir literally means black film referring to both the look and the attitude of these movies.

Joe and Moe are two guys sitting in a bar talking about women, cons, cops, capers and Lady Luck. Among their stories: "A Fine Lot of Lollipops": two punks make the mistake of hijacking a truck belonging to Big Louis; plus "The Lollipop King"; "Miracles and Wonder Bread", "Nina the Nudist", "Night Train to El Paso", "Don't Shoot Live Poets", "Life Dangling Lessons", "All Good Hoofers Go to Heaven"; and 13 more!