Word: noir
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Dewy-fresh 1930s Los Angeles becomes the ironic avatar of this darkly shadowed tale of multiple rapes-of the land, of a tragically misused woman. Film noir was a tired genre before writer Robert Towne and director Polanski made this, the best and most profound of the breed...
...rosewater, litchi and apricot. Heinrich Breuer of Georg Breuer Winery also makes outstanding wines the natural way. He eschews temperature control because this technique promotes fruitier wines: "It's as if your children were brought up with no fresh air." His wines - even his Spätburgunder (Pinot Noir) - are exciting. Besides having a terrific wineshop, Breuer also offers the town's best digs...
...lesson in how and how not to make comix. Eisner's early drawings practically defined expressiveness in cartooning. The Spirit introduced the aesthetics of what would eventually be called film noir into the comics of the 1940s. But later, Eisner's work became almost too expressive. While masterfully drafted, there is a whiff of mothballs in the way Eisner's characters mug their emotions, evoking a time of pre-Method overacting. They don't just give conspiratorial looks, they leer with venality. They don't just argue with conviction, they gesticulate wildly. Again, Eisner clearly doesn?t think an audience...
...those simple standards, the musical succeeds: it sends up the freshman experience, as well as the clichés of noir, love stories, and numerous other genres, in an incredibly hokey way. But this isn’t a criticism. Nobody is pretending that this is high comedy, or anything but silly fun. Taken on that level, the play succeeds more often than...
...commented that his cellar was unusually warm. He explained that he dislikes the now ubiquitous modern technique of temperature control, which often promotes fruitier wines. "It's as if your children were brought up with no fresh air," he says. His wines--even his Spatbürgunder (Pinot Noir)--are exciting...