{"id":22504,"date":"2022-04-12T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=22504"},"modified":"2022-03-31T12:06:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T19:06:50","slug":"nics-flicks-nightmare-alley-fantastic-noir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2022\/04\/12\/nics-flicks-nightmare-alley-fantastic-noir\/","title":{"rendered":"Nic’s Flicks<\/em>: Nightmare Alley<\/em> fantastic noir"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nightmare Alley<\/i> (2021)
\n3.5\/4<\/p>\n

One my favourite film genres is old film noir. I really get a kick out of watching classic noir movies, such as the John Huston classic The Maltese Falcon<\/i> or Roman Polanski\u2019s thought-provoking Chinatown<\/i>. Now, Oscar-wining director Guillermo Del Toro has crafted Nightmare Alley<\/i>, a movie that pays tribute to the iconic noir movies of the past while also being a deserving entry to the enduring legacy of noir.<\/p>\n

What I really like about the movie is Del Toro\u2019s and co-writer Kim Morgen\u2019s screenplay. Based on both the classic novel by William Lindsay Gresham and Edmund Goulding\u2019s 1947 film adaptation, Del Toro and Morgen successfully complete the daunting task they set out to complete\u2014craft a movie that blends Gresham\u2019s themes of descent, justice, and human nature together into a great film noir.<\/p>\n

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Nic’s Flicks<\/em> is a column about movies (photo by Nicolas Ihmels\/Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The main thing that really makes the move shine is its stellar art and costume design. Whether we\u2019re in an office or at a circus, every set completely immerses the viewer into both the movie and the era it is portraying.<\/p>\n

The costumes by Luis Sequeira and the stunning cinematography by frequent Del Toro collaborator Dan Laustsen also do a delightful job of immersing its audience into the 1940s.<\/p>\n

The acting is also really good here. Both Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett are fantastic in their leading roles and the supporting cast\u2014consisting of such famous faces as Rooney Mara, Willem Dafoe, David Strathairn, Toni Collette, and Richard Jenkins\u2014give show-stopping performances that are just as good as the movie they are in.<\/p>\n

The only negative I found is that it\u2019s sometimes hard to follow, especially in the scenes where Cooper\u2019s character Stan is trying to con people. If you didn\u2019t have a keen eye on the story, these scenes might seem out of left field, but it\u2019s just part of noir: if you don\u2019t want to pay close attention to a movie, Nightmare Alley<\/i> is not for you.<\/p>\n

Thanks to a fantastic script, a stellar cast, sweeping camera work, and stunning art and costume design, Del Toro\u2019s Nightmare Alley <\/i>is a super-immersive movie experience that no one will soon forget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nightmare Alley (2021) 3.5\/4 One my favourite film genres is old film noir. I really get a kick out of watching classic noir movies, such as the John Huston classic The Maltese Falcon or Roman Polanski\u2019s thought-provoking Chinatown. Now, Oscar-wining director Guillermo Del Toro has crafted Nightmare Alley, a movie that pays tribute to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,267],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-april-6-2022"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22505,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22504\/revisions\/22505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}