Sentence examples for from noir from inspiring English sources

One of the best things about "A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion" is its liberation from noir clichés; another is its seamless execution.

Rather like an Indiana Jones film, "The Brothers Bloom" layers movie styles, from noir to adventure serial to screwball comedy, to conjure a timeless present.

Late one evening he was so truculent that Ian Board, Muriel's barman asked me to get him out of the Colony, which I did by taking him down the road to a casino where, since he could scarcely tell rouge from noir by then, he lost an enormous sum.

From witty jokes linking Twin Peaks' kindly Sheriff Harry S Truman to his presidential namesake, to Frost's brief cameo as a news reporter and nods to everything from noir classics Double Indemnity and Laura to Lynch's own Eraserhead, Twin Peaks set the standard for today's pop culture-driven TV.

Fitting the same description is the new novel by William Gibson, whose own literary trajectory has seen him develop from noir prophet of cyberspace (the word he coined in Neuromancer, 1984) to a kind of wi-fi'd Pynchon for the present.

The theatre will kick off the festival will a special guests appearance from noir star Peggy Cummins who will introduce her 1950 film "Gun Crazy," and then stick around for a post-show interview.

But--and this is where the private detective story separates itself from noir--it also has a character with a moral center.

WINE LIST -- Merlot from South Africa, riesling from Mosel, pinot noir from New York's Finger Lakes, and much more.

In my biannual visits, a week each, I never miss the carnitas and chiles rellenos at Libby's (8651 Highway 128, Philo; 707-895-2646) or stocking up on gewürztraminer from Navarro, pinot noir from Toulouse and sparkling white from Roederer.

I've just come from Øya Festival, where I saw an unholy thrash attack from Aura Noir in the blazing sunshine this afternoon.

The vineyards changed from Pinot Noir to Pinot Grigio.