Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Film noir" ¶ 30
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Criss and Cross
Criss Cross ( 1949 ), with Lancaster again the lead, exemplifies how Siodmak brought the virtues of the B-movie to the A noir.
* Criss Cross ( 1948 )
Sex, Lies, and Videotape was followed by a series of low-budget box-office disappointments: Kafka, a biopic mixing fact and Kafka's own fiction ( notably The Castle and The Trial ), written by Lem Dobbs and starring Jeremy Irons as Franz Kafka ; King of the Hill ( 1993 ), a critically acclaimed Depression-era drama ; The Underneath ( 1995 ), a remake of Robert Siodmak's 1949 film noir Criss Cross ; and Schizopolis ( 1996 ), a comedy which he starred in, wrote, composed, and shot as well as directed.
** 1926 Criss Cross ( music Kern )
Curtis's uncredited screen debut came in Criss Cross ( 1949 ) playing a rumba dancer.
Later, as " Tony Curtis ", he cemented his reputation with breakthrough performances such as in the role of the scheming press agent Sidney Falco in Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ) with Burt Lancaster ( who also starred in Criss Cross ) and an Oscar-nominated performance as a bigoted white escaped convict chained to the black Sidney Poitier in The Defiant Ones.
He continued to record a number of well-reviewed studio albums, particularly Criss Cross, also from 1963, and Underground, from 1968.
* Criss Cross ( 1963 )
By the early 1960s Granada was established and its soap opera Coronation Street quickly became popular alongside inexpensive game shows Criss Cross Quiz and University Challenge.
Category: Criss Cross Jazz artists
* Criss Cross ( 1949 )
The original compositions give a nod to the influence of " Criss Cross " and " Off Minor " from the legendary Thelonious Monk.
3: Abnett and Lanning, writers / Criss Cross, pencils / Don Hillsman, inks
Hytner made his television debut as a contestant on Junior Criss Cross Quiz in the programme's final season on Granada TV, in 1967.
* The Jaunt ( Criss Cross, 1995 )
* Dig Deep ( Criss Cross, 1996 )
* Crossfire ( Criss Cross, 1997 )
* Vibe Up ( Criss Cross, 1998 )
* Systems Blue ( Criss Cross, 2001 )
* Meant to be ( Criss Cross, 2003 )
* Update ( Criss Cross, 2006 )
* Beautiful Friendship w / Joe Farnsworth ( 1998, Criss Cross )
* Osteology w / Conrad Herwig ( 1998, Criss Cross )
* Good-Hearted People w / David Hazeltine ( 2002, Criss Cross )

Criss and Siodmak
The story plays strictly by the crime-genre rules, including a $ 250, 000 payroll caper, but Siodmak ( Criss Cross, The Spiral Staircase ), a director from the German Expressionist school, sustains a fatalistic tone with the atmospheric touches that define noir, favoring stark lighting effects that throw his post-war world into shadow.
Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton writing in A Panorama of American Film Noir 1941-1953 comments that director Siodmak had better noir efforts but the film does have one lasting image, " Siodmak will rediscover neither the brilliance of The Killers nor the ' finish ' of Criss Cross in the over-rushed, too uneven, Cry of the City: for all that, one will remember the figure of a forever famished masseuse, a real ' phallic woman ' who, with a flick of the wrists, has a ' tough guy ' at her mercy.

Criss and all
Gary Smith, who also did the front and back covers for Hall of the Mountain King, the front cover for Gutter Ballet, the back cover for Streets, and all of Criss Oliva's airbrushed guitars, painted the cover.
Although the album is technically a Jon Oliva solo album, with Jon handling all instrumental duties except for vocals and lead guitars, the album was released under the Savatage moniker with bass and drum credits given to Middleton and Wacholz respectively, as Andy James had left the band following the death of Criss Oliva to pursue other projects.
Klayton and Criss Angel parted ways in 2000 after three albums ' worth of material had been completed, allowing Klayton to devote all of his time to Celldweller.
On October 26, 2011, Criss gave word about plans for a his next upcoming TV project as soon as it's all firmed up.
" ( Criss denies this story, stating that he " went to all the looping.
In a radio interview with Eddie Trunk following his departure Criss stated that only " Into the Void " featured instrumental contributions from all four members.

Criss and these
Alumni of these programs include Nicolas Cage, Teri Hatcher, Milo Ventimiglia, Winona Ryder, Camryn Manheim, Darren Criss, and Chris Pine.

Criss and with
While playing with bandleader Joey Greco, Criss ended up studying under his idol, Gene Krupa, at the Metropole Club in New York.
Criss was involved with a number of bands throughout the mid-to-late 1960s.
It was during this time that Criss joined Chelsea, who had a two-album deal with Decca Records ; the group released a self-titled album in 1970.
Dianna Agron ( as Quinn Fabray ) opens the song, with leads sung by Darren Criss ( as Blaine Anderson ) and Kevin McHale ( as Artie Abrams ).
He follows them into the town sewers with his friends Victor Criss and Reginald " Belch " Huggins, only to encounter It in the form of Frankenstein's monster, who decapitates Victor and mutilates Belch's face, after which Henry escapes.
Lee was sitting with magician Criss Angel when the two went to visit Diddy, who was sitting close to Kid Rock.
While Paul O ' Neill and Jon Oliva were preparing for the launching of Trans-Siberian Orchestra, their plans were brought to a halt with the death of Jon's younger brother, Criss Oliva, killed by a drunk driver.
From this point on, he played an important role in the West Coast school of jazz, performing on the Los Angeles jazz scene with Shorty Rogers, Hampton Hawes, Red Mitchell, Art Pepper, Russ Freeman, Frank Rosolino, Chet Baker, Leroy Vinnegar, Pete Jolly, Howard McGhee, Bob Gordon, Conte Candoli, Sonny Criss, and numerous others.
" Between 2003 and 2007, the channel gradually retired several long-running series, moving its classic mysteries to The Biography Channel and cancelling Breakfast with the Arts, in favor of reality programming such as Dog The Bounty Hunter, Gene Simmons Family Jewels, Growing Up Gotti, Family Plots, Airline, Inked, King of Cars, and Criss Angel Mindfreak.
George Ault, Ralston Crawford, Preston Dickinson, Louis Lozowick, Gerald Murphy, Niles Spencer, Joseph Stella, Stuart Davis Peter Blume, Virginia Berresford, Henry Billings John Storrs, and Miklos Suba, Francis Criss, and the photographer Paul Strand were other artists associated with the hard-edged style of Precisionism.
St. John made a demo in 1990 with fellow former Kiss member Peter Criss.
This band, known as the Keep, became what was essentially White Tiger, with Peter Criss replacing Brian Fox on drums, and David Donato using the alias Michael McDonald.
By early 1991, the difficulty shopping the demo, and St. John's need to get on with making a living, led to friction between Peter and him, and he left the band ( which eventually became Criss ).
Originally the album would contain more spoken tracks than the one used for the introduction for Jesus Saves ( which was a reworking of DT Jesus after Atlantic did not like the original version, and was recorded with only Jon and Criss in the studio, much like Gutter Ballet ).
Criss, Jon and Steve played Tampa ( where they had moved with their family in the late-70s ) and Clearwater area clubs for many years.
However, after a tour in support of the album, Jon Oliva left the band to concentrate on his side projects Doctor Butcher and his Broadway-bound musical Romanov, as well as continuing co-writing Savatage material with his brother Criss and producer Paul O ' Neill.
A short while after Criss ' death, the band held a tribute show for the late guitarist, with the same line-up as the Streets tour but without Criss.
Jon also announced that he is doing " some video compilation stuff, and editing old things for a bonus DVD to go with it, that has a ton of live Criss stuff in concert, a lot of backstage frolicking about, and going to castles in Europe ".

0.169 seconds.