Word: noire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...classic film noir, The Big Sleep has no clear-cut better...
...edged, overly bright. But when he confronts the automotive traditionalists in his own organization or the politicians whom the movie shows endlessly harassing him at Detroit's behest, and when, finally, he ; is placed on trial for fraud, the film turns paranoid in the manner of the '40s' film noir...
...engaging. Screenwriter Charles Edward Pogue, who recently updated The Fly, has a gift for polishing up pop cultural artifacts so that they shine like new. And Directors Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel, up from rock videos and Max Headroom, have found their own effective approximation of the beloved film noir style...
...That's just a sexy handle," says Pantheon Senior Editor Tom Engelhardt. "You take a little from a TV mini-series, a little film noir and a little Burroughs and call it a graphic novel." Call it commercial too. In Europe graphic novels command 10% of the book market. At Waldenbooks, the nation's largest bookseller, they are being given prominent display. Says Margaret Ross, manager of Waldenbooks' magazine department: "We thought they could bring in people we wouldn't usually see -- from early 20s to early 30s, science-fiction and comic collectors, well educated." Writer Alan Moore, author...
Visually, the movie is incredibly stylized. Juan Ruiz Anchia's cinematography relies on lighting set-ups that are almost expressionistic and the ambience is strictly film noir...