Word: noir
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...give Nolan a camera, and he goes straight for the most disturbed characters he can find. Last year he reinvented film noir with Memento, a low-budget story that he wrote and directed about an amnesia victim searching for his wife's killer. It started at the end and worked back toward the beginning, while the protagonist tattooed clues on his body. After Nolan weathered rejections from all the big studios, the $4.5 million thriller became a critically acclaimed hit, and Nolan got an Oscar nomination for his screenplay...
...contrast to the documentary asceticism of the guide’s perspective, the scenes played out on the television screens, representing the separate rooms of Gambaro’s original staging, present an array of traditional genres: sitcom, film noir, newscast...
...less family-friendly roles, is the eponymous Michael Sullivan, a hit man who seeks revenge after he is betrayed and half of his family decimated. If the 1998 graphic novel of the same title by Max Allan Collins is any indication, the film should feature some stunning cinematography of noir-era Chicago...
...himself now becomes a dead sea; no visible emotion roils his surface. He appears at first to have become a meth addict, but that's mere pretense. So is his work as a police informer. All his activities are secretly aimed at finding his wife's killers. His neo-noir trail is violent (particularly when he encounters Vincent D'Onofrio's deeply scary druglord) and, occasionally, rather disturbingly funny...
...surprising intricacy of the plotting of The Salton Sea, the self-conscious care with which director D.J. Caruso has composed it and the passionate intensity of its actors all signal a serious effort to break out of its neo-noir roots. At a time when it is hard to remember a big studio film that aspired to anything beyond the top spot at the box office on opening weekend, this kind of ambition is not to be casually dismissed...