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Best Movies of 2. So Far)Fall is upon us, meaning it’s now definitely time to begin celebrating the finest movies that have so far made their way to the multiplex and the art house. After eight months, moviegoers have been gifted with a bounty of great blockbusters, indies and documentaries, proving that filmmakers are continuing to find new ways —both big and small—to entertain, excite and enlighten. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below.
No doubt there are numerous gems to come in the months ahead, given that by the holidays, we’ll have the latest works from acclaimed directors like Paul Thomas Anderson and Steven Spielberg (to name just two). For now, however, these are our current picks for the best films of 2. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Get Out. Be it the early sight of a car pulling up alongside an African- American man, or a photo of an angry dog being held on a tight leash, the color white spells doom in Jordan Peele's social- commentary horror hit Get Out—albeit ultimately in unexpected ways. Surrounded by his white girlfriend Rose's (Allison Williams) Obama- loving family and their friends during a weekend getaway at their rural estate, Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) finds himself increasingly uncomfortable, especially after a series of encounters with fellow African- Americans (the household's staffers, a young boyfriend of a much older white woman) make him suspect that something is scarily amiss.
The story's climactic revelations are indebted to The Stepford Wives, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Rosemary's Baby, and yet are given a fresh of- the- moment twist by Peele's razor- sharp script, which cleverly locates the means by which liberals' pro- black attitudes function as a type of appropriation- esque intolerance. As impressive as its racial- dynamics critique, however, is its formal dexterity; from its malevolent pacing to its terrifying imagery (especially of . Rent/buy on Amazon and i.
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Logan Lucky After a four- year cinematic “retirement,” director Steven Soderbergh makes a welcome return to the big screen with Lucky Logan, which operates as a southern- fried, Pabst Blue Ribbon- fueled variation on his Ocean’s Eleven heist trilogy. Pulling off this elaborate caper are Jimmy (Channing Tatum) and Clyde Logan (Adam Driver), two working- class brothers who’ve had it stuck to them by the Man—Jimmy’s lost his construction job due to insurance- regulation issues stemming from an injury; Clyde is missing a hand because of an Iraq tour of duty—and decide to strike back by robbing the Charlotte Motor Speedway during its biggest race of the year, the Coca- Cola 6. Enlisting the aid of their sister (Riley Keough), a demolitions expert known as Joe Bang (Daniel Craig, stealing every scene he’s in), and involving a host of others as well (including Katie Holmes, Katherine Waterston, Dwight Yoakam, Seth Macfarlane and Hilary Swank), the ensuing robbery is a madcap affair that’s as stylishly orchestrated as it is comically suspenseful. It’s the summer’s breeziest multiplex confection. Pre- order on Amazon. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below.
The Ornithologist It helps to have some working knowledge of Saint Anthony of Padua—the 1. Cult Classics Movies Mission: Impossible 5 (2015). Catholic priest who became the patron saint of lost things—if you want to fully grasp Jo. Then again, this heady spiritual import is best experienced with next- to- no preparation, the better to tumble headfirst into its bewildering raft of pious and profane imagery.
The story of a Portuguese bird- watcher who, during his time out in the wild, encounters (among other things) two Chinese female hikers who want to castrate him and a young shepherd named Jesus who wants to sleep with him, Rodrigues' film is a deeply allegorical descent down a biblical rabbit hole, drenched in highly personal details and infused with a potent sense of the phantasmagoric. No matter whether one can decode all of its strange, mystifying sights and symbolism, it plays out like a spellbinding reverie about one man's quest for greater knowledge about himself, his universe, and his God. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. The Bad Batch In a post- apocalyptic America where the haves have exiled the have- nots to a desert Texas wasteland, a young girl (Suki Waterhouse) becomes prey to cannibals, losing her arm and leg in the process. Rather than succumbing to despair and death, however, she soldiers on, leading to a hallucinatory journey through a misfit- outcast landscape where she soon finds love with a flesh- eating family man (Jason Momoa).
Ana Lily Amirpour's sophomore feature is, like her 2. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, an entrancing hybrid of various cinematic traditions. With Keanu Reeves as a deviant Hugh Hefner- style messiah and Jim Carrey as a scraggly nomad (in a part that affords no dialogue to the motormouthed comedian), it's a uniquely out- there head- trip about marginalized men and women forming communities, and finding love, out on the fringe—one whose political subtext gets more relevant by the day. Rent/buy on Amazon and i. Tunes. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below.
The Lure. La La Land's award- season triumphs may have heralded the return of the Hollywood musical, but in terms of ingenuity, flair and sheer eye- popping weirdness, it can't hold a candle to The Lure. Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska's wackadoo import is a familiar drama about a young couple torn between individual dreams and professional desires, the twist being that these protagonists (Marta Mazurek and Michalina Olszanska) are mermaid cannibals sashaying through the seedy cabaret underbelly of 1.
Warsaw. Like the dreamy love child of Am. A bisexual Little Mermaid- by- way- of- vampire horrorshow scored to original New Wave- y tunes, it really is like nothing you've ever seen before. Rent/buy on Amazon and i. Tunes. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. The Villainess. It’s been an exceptional year for action epics featuring formidable female warriors, and none are as out- and- out insane as The Villainess, South Korean director Jung Byung- gil’s aesthetically frenetic revenge saga. Opening with a first- person hallway- gym skirmish that has to be seen to be believed, this blood- drenched import concerns a young assassin (Kim Ok- vin) who’s enlisted—and given a new identity—by a shadowy intelligence organization.
Nonetheless, she remains throughout an independent soul determined to track down and murder the man responsible for killing her father years earlier. Trying to keep up with the film’s convoluted narrative requires a Herculean effort, but being confused has rarely been this exhilarating, thanks to a series of set pieces that—defying the odds—manage to continually one- up their predecessors, from a motorcycle fight in which the camera does as many impossible things as Jung’s protagonist, to a finale that leaps between multiple speeding vehicles.
It’s the cinematic equivalent of an adrenaline shot to the heart. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. The Beguiled Sofia Coppola's adaptation of Thomas P. Cullinan's novel (which was previously made into a 1. Clint Eastwood) is a sweltering hothouse thriller guided by its director's precise, penetrating evocation of female rivalry and pent- up desire.
In Virginia during the Civil War, a group of women living at a remote boarding school have their sleepy existence interrupted by the discovery of a wounded Union soldier (Colin Farrell), whose arrival—and sexual magnetism—does much to upset their delicate domestic balance.
Film Noir - Films. Film Noir(literally 'black film.
French film critics (first by Nino Frank in 1. American crime and detective films released in France to theatres following. The Maltese Falcon (1. Murder, My Sweet (1. Double Indemnity (1.
The Woman in the Window (1. Laura (1. 94. 4). Fear, mistrust, bleakness, loss of innocence, despair and paranoia. Cold War period when.
The criminal, violent. There were rarely. Classic film noir developed during and after World. War II, taking advantage of the post- war ambience of anxiety, pessimism, and. It was a style of black and white American films that first. Important Note: Strictly speaking, film noir is not a genre, but rather the mood, style, point- of- view, or tone of a film.
It. is also helpful to realize that 'film noir' usually refers to a distinct. World. War II, similar to the German Expressionism or the French New Wave periods.
She would use. her feminine wiles and come- hither sexuality to manipulate him into becoming. After a betrayal or double- cross. Heroes (or anti- heroes), corrupt characters and villains included. Joes. These protagonists. Distinctively, they were cynical, tarnished. Storylines were often elliptical, non- linear and twisting. Narratives were frequently complex, maze- like and convoluted.
Amnesia suffered by the. Everyman. who fell victim to temptation or was framed. Revelations regarding the hero. Film noir films (mostly shot in gloomy grays, blacks.
An oppressive. atmosphere of menace, pessimism, anxiety, suspicion that anything can go wrong. The protagonists in film noir were normally driven by. Film noir films were marked visually by expressionistic. Settings. were often interiors with low- key (or single- source) lighting, venetian- blinded. Exteriors. were often urban night scenes with deep shadows, wet asphalt, dark alleyways. It would be to pursue. When the major character.
The femme fatale. Cinematic Origins and Roots of Classic Film Noir: The. Europe, were imported to Hollywood. Noirs were rooted in German Expressionism of the 1. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1. 92. 0, Germ.) or Fritz Lang's M (1. Germ.), Fury (1. 93.
You Only Live Once (1. Murnau. G. Pabst, and Robert Wiene, were noted for their stark camera angles and. In addition, the French sound films of the 3. Julien Duvivier's Pepe Le Moko (1.
Another cinematic origin of film noir was from the plots and. American literary works - usually from.
Raymond Chandler. James M. Cain, Dashiell Hammett, or Cornell Woolrich. As a result, the earliest. Film noir was also derived from.
Little Caesar (1. Public Enemy (1. 93. Scarface. (1. 93.
Notable. film noir gangster films, such as They. Drive By Night (1. Key Largo (1. 94. White. Heat (1. 94. The Earliest Film Noirs: In the 1. Many sources have claimed that director Boris Ingster's and RKO's Stranger.
Third Floor(1. 94. The expressionistic film starred Peter Lorre as the sinister 'stranger' (cast due to his creepy. M (1. 93. 1)), in a story about the nightmarish after- effects.
Others claim Orson Welles' masterpiece Citizen Kane (1. The. first detective film to use the shadowy, nihilistic noir style in a definitive.
John Huston in the mystery classic The Maltese Falcon (1. Dashiell Hammett. From the novel A. Gun For Sale by renowned British novelist Graham Greene, the moody noir. Ladd in a star- making role (his first lead role) as a ruthless, cat- loving. San Francisco professional hit- man named Raven working for a peppermint- candy.
Willard Gates (Laird Cregar) and his wheelchair- bound Nitro. Chemicals executive Alvin Brewster (Tully Marshall) - both double- crossers. Japanese). Ladd was paired with.
Lake as nightclub showgirl singer Ellen Graham, his hostage (and unbeknownst to him working as a federal agent). Another. Dashiell Hammett book of political corruption and murder was adapted for Stuart. Heisler's The Glass Key (1. Paramount Studios - again with the.
Ladd and Lake, and noted as one of the best Hammett adaptations. Ladd. starred as Ed Beaumont, a right- hand man and political aide attempting to.
Brian Donlevy) from a murder frame- up, while Lake played. The film was noted for the vicious beating. Ladd by a crime lord thug (William Bendix). The popular noir couple were brought together again in George.
Marshall's post- war crime thriller The Blue Dahlia (1. Oscar- nominated screenplay by Raymond Chandler (the only work he ever wrote. Alan Ladd portrayed returning war veteran Johnny. Morrison who discovered that his wife Helen (Doris Dowling) was unfaithful. When she turned up dead and he became the prime suspect. Joyce Harwood (Lake) - the seductive.
Orson Welles and Film Noir: Orson Welles' films have significant noir features, such as. Citizen Kane (1. 94.
Gregg Toland. Welles' third film for RKO, the war- time mystery Journey Into Fear (1. Istanbul. The film's story was inspired by Eric Ambler's spy thriller about the flight of an American arms engineer (Joseph Cotten) on a Black Sea tramp steamer where he was threatened by Nazi agents intent on killing him. The complex The. Lady from Shanghai (1. Sherwood King's novel If I Should Die Before I Wake), told. Irish seaman Michael O'Hara (Welles. Rita Hayworth as the platinum blonde- haired femme.
Elsa (or Rosalie), and her husband Arthur Bannister (Everett Sloane). Maybe I'll die trying.
It starred Charlton Heston as Vargas - a naive. Mexican- American narcotics cop, Janet Leigh as his imperiled, honeymooning. Susan, and Welles' own corrupt and corpulent local cop Hank Quinlan. Later, Welles' expressionistic. The Trial (1. 96.
Franz Kafka's classic novel, with Anthony Perkins as Joseph K - a man condemned. More Definitive 4. Noirs: Early. classic non- detective film noirs included Fritz Lang's steamy and fatalistic Scarlet Street (1.
Edward G. Robinson) unpunished and. Joan Bennett) after she. Director Abraham Polonsky's expressionistic. Force of Evil (1. John Garfield as. British director Carol Reed's tense tale of treachery. Vienna,The. Third Man (1.
Harry Lime (Orson Welles), ended with a climactic shootout. And the nightmarishly- dark.