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...time greats (it's a notch or two below All About My Mother and Talk to Her), but it's still complex, vivacious and emotionally resonant. Since the gynocentric Mother and Volver, and the guy-nocentric Bad Education, Almodóvar has returned to the plot structure of the noirish Live Flesh: the toxic romantic geometry of a triangle love story. In the world of telenovela melodrama that has long appealed to Almodóvar, jealousy must be twisted into violence at the top of a winding staircase, while lust collides with a dark fate on a highway with...
...quotable that it sounds as if it were a treatment for a Scorsese movie set in Queens. "The word isn't victim - it's sucker," one made man pronounces. A cop is described as saying, in English, "Please go get me some smokes, angel." Yet the facts beneath the noirish lines are assembled with what looks to be ferocious diligence and resourcefulness. For even as he is getting slapped around by thugs and placed under police protection, Adelstein never loses his gift for crisp storytelling and an unexpectedly earnest eagerness to try to rescue the damned. "You're stupid, obtuse...
...Dassin directed some important, and still fascinating, noirish films in the late 40s: Brute Force, The Naked City, Thieves' Highway. Then he got blacklisted by Hollywood and settled in Paris. After four idle years Dassin achieved international renown with Rififi; he won the Director prize at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival, where he met his future wife, the actress Melina Mercouri. They made nine films together, including his biggest success, Never on Sunday. That romantic comedy, with the director playing a naive American grecophile and Mercouri as the Athens whore who liberates him, landed Dassin two Oscar nominations, for director...
Imagine a world without CSI, NYPD Blue and Law & Order. That void was pop culture before Brooklynite screenwriter Malvin Wald conceived and co-wrote The Naked City, the noirish black-and-white 1948 film detailing a police investigation into a model's murder. (Famous last lines: "There are 8 million stories in the Naked City. This has been one of them.") Set on the piers and streets of New York City, the movie broke with depictions of cops as inept bumblers--and private eyes as heroic crime solvers--and set the stage for the now teeming genre of gritty police...
...contemporarystory set in the 1940s,” Sachssaid. “The 40s are kind of today, really, ina lot of ways. These characters could beour parents, they could be us, they couldbe anyone.”The film also defies genre classification,at times aspiring to noirish suspensewhile also achieving a darkly comedic undertone.It’s pleasantly surprising that themovie’s performances are so emotionallyengaging, given the somewhat erratic tone.“The form is artificial and comic, but theacting is really modern,” Sachs said.Cooper was also pleased at Sachs?...