DRIVE director Nicolas Wending Refn jumps into prime time telly with this new
noirish thriller series on Amazon.
The uneven tale plays out like a
noirish cops-and-robbers series from the '80s, with chatty, sometimes less-than-appealing characters dragging the story to a halt.
Meanwhile, the action on stage and screens references not only the novel's narrative but its other iterations, particularly Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, as well as offering a
noirish nod to Raymond Chandler and namechecks for Blade Runner, Dawn of the Dead and Goya.
The
noirish geometric cover looks nothing like an art history book, which is the point: It aims to appeal to fiction readers and others looking for an escape.
These
noirish elements deepen the suspense with a foreboding moodiness that enhances the paranoiac tone.
THOMAS TRUAX ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS HHHH H TROUBADOUR Thomas Truax is a teller of wry,
noirish stories whose live shows feature self-invented, noise-making contraptions that have fixed him in the imaginations of a cult following.
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noirish stories whose live shows feature self-invented, noise-making contraptions that have fixed him in the imaginations of a cult following.
Dirty John, for those of you who aren't already hooked, is Goffard's true crime podcast that follows a fine tradition of
noirish journalism first popularised by Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and which continued through to more recent TV shows such as The Making Of A Murderer.
Mark Peterson often shoots his portraits with a blazing flash, from a
noirish low angle, and must be happiest when he captures, as Diane Arbus did, an animalistic grimace or a tellingly vacant expression.
"Jacob Bladders and the State of the Art" by Roman Muradove is part satire of commercial art, part
noirish detective story, and part puzzle to be solved by the reader or simply left in pieces.
Located next to the Warner Hollywood studio lot, and built around a trolley car, the
noirish bar hosted generations of stars and aspiring showbizzers, but was overshadowed by the large West Hollywood Gateway development that now shares its property.
"(Feast of the Raven)...strikes an appealing balance between historical fiction, sword and sorcery, and a
noirish detective story, with quick pacing and just enough world building to lend weight to the plot.