Coming a few hundred years before film, these paintings are the first vestiges of cinematic construction we will see, with their noir lighting and corrupted subjects.
"I wanted an anti-noir, a light noir," said Mr. Tucker, who made the homicide-free "Shopgirl" and "Leap Year".
Scott Pask's black-framework set (which pays homage to the El tracks), Paul Gallo's film-noir lighting and William Ivey Long's tarty nightclub costumes might easily do duty for a "Cabaret" and "Chicago" double bill.
Here he oversees a work that wears its sense of history like a musk-heavy perfume, evident in the tatty glamour of Derek McLane's sets and Jeff Croiter's film-noir lighting.
The spice, sugar and lightly fermented sauces of the pork dish amplified the pinot noir with light tannins, making it taste more like a full-bodied merlot.
(Her): You can do an off-dry riesling style, that's typically what I would like to drink, or a pinot noir or light burgundy, that's Alfred's preference.
The palette is brothel reds and noir, the lighting bedside.
MG: In film noir, strong lighting and its deep shadows create the dramatic atmosphere.
His deftly crafted reconstructions used film noir-style lighting and unusual camera angles, a technique that's since influenced my films, like One Day in September.
A custom scent created by fragrance house Firmenich added to the film noir-inspired lighting to further evoke the freshness of British rain (sounds of birds and crickets also added to the mood).
The gang are back with more light noir detective work and literary gags next year with series three.
