Their fall collection had a film-noir vibe that always does well for them on the modern Hollywood red carpet.
The cinematographer Peter Deming lights one of the blackest of all film-noir fade-outs: it traps you in an infinite night.
Ms. Lambert, however, goes a little overboard with her film-noir, tough-gal voice "The Futures" reads like the history of commodities as told by Raymond Chandler.
The set hints at life beyond high school, including a Columbia University dormitory room that appears to be outfitted for female freshman, with sparkly sneakers and film-noir posters.
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And the technique is fascinating: black-and-white cinematography (on color stock with the color bleached out), soft images via lenses that now qualify as antiques, performances that echo the old film-noir acting style.
To prepare for the show, exhibit curator Paul Martineau spent several months plowing through 1, 200 boxes of prints in a cold cinder-block room at the Herb Ritts Foundation in Hollywood, looking for shots with the L.A.-bred photographer's signature style: glowing California light, bold shadows, bare skin and film-noir settings.
When villain Yar Badshah meets and browbeats his jittery backers, the mood is pure film noir - all hard lights, deep shadows and coughing smokers.
The founder of a company producing features for cable television stations, who is obsessed with film noir -- murder mysteries shot in black and white "with warped gangsters and neurotic heroes and dangerous women, shiny wet streets and big black cars with their headlights on" -- has disappeared.
His idea was to use the devastation of postwar Berlin as the setting for a period piece involving murder, political intrigue, moral ambiguity and romance -- a film noir in the tradition of "Casablanca" or "The Third Man" -- and then to shoot it, with contemporary actors, in the visual and dramatic style of the period.
No other film artist operated as skillfully as he did under cover of darkness, and this seventy-nine-minute film noir from 1948 shows off his night vision at peak power.
People call it espionage or thriller, but I think it's a mixed genre, perhaps most close to old-fashioned film noir.
This is old-fashioned film noir, which in a romantic and mysterious ways toward the end, or certain part of the movie, you'll think you get lost in the mystery of the core of darkness.
The film was all shadows and light in the contemporary Hollywood style - in my book I have called it the beginning of Bombay Noir, a style of film-making that borrowed elements from abroad but had Indian flourishes like music and songs.
The director, Curtis Hanson ("The River Wild, " "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle"), has done his film noir homework, yet his movie feels bright and new, as if he's piercing those long-ago Los Angeles nights with halogen headlights.
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