She doesn't look like a femme fatale, but she is a femme fatale.
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"Femme Fatale," March 20073 Spears released another album, "Femme Fatale," which included the songs "Till The World Ends" and "Hold It Against Me," among others.
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The researchers, out of Washington State University and the University of Colorado Boulder, call this the "femme fatale effect" — femme fatale being a term for a seductive yet manipulative woman.
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It matters that Henson's character is essentially a femme fatale.
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The Love Witch complicates the idea of a femme fatale.
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No. I'd forgotten I was a bit of a femme fatale.
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Three years later, Dr. Luke executive produced Spears' Femme Fatale album.
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There's a sultry femme fatale, leading our protagonist into moral dissolution.
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Nanette Johnston was the very definition of a femme fatale. Beauty. Allure.
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She's not Popeye's 'girlfriend' … I see her as a real femme fatale.
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There's Eiza Gonzalez as Darling, a gun-toting, gum-smacking femme fatale.
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Seyfried's mysterious hacker bears all the hallmark tropes of a femme fatale.
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ALMA MAHLER was the supreme femme fatale of early-20th-century Vienna.
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People have referred to her as a femme fatale and she's not.
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In her work, she took on a different role, the femme fatale.
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No, not her bod – that '70s femme fatale they nominated for American Hustle.
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After all, tomorrow is another day... to dress as a new femme fatale.
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Francesca is a garden-variety femme fatale, yet the movie's most compelling figure.
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I thought it was as great way to subvert expectations about a femme fatale.
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So it doesn't look like Vergara is going to be our latest femme fatale.
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Black Widow, meanwhile, was a Russian femme fatale and thorn in Iron Man's side.
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She was an aspiring femme fatale, but she didn't pull it off, thank heavens.
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Who is this femme fatale and what is this film with the intrusive soundtrack?
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The case made more sense if Hadley was a femme fatale rather than a victim.
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For all her witchy wiles, Scott's femme fatale is by far the most sympathetic character.
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But upon closer inspection, this femme fatale sofa appears to be playing a big game.
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Her line delivery is multi-layered, seductive, and dangerous, slapstick as well as femme fatale.
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The command "Feu!" was given and the myth of the femme fatale spy was born.
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Ms. Hendricks, the office femme fatale of "Mad Men," is a neglected mother of four.
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The French cinema lost a grande dame, Danielle Darrieux, and a femme fatale, Jeanne Moreau.
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The plot was thwarted by Batman, but the femme fatale may have stolen his heart.
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But there is something very subversive about a strong woman dressing like a femme fatale.
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She played the femme fatale Aishah in the Elvis Presley movie "Harum Scarum" in 1965.
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So Karen keeps alternating between femme fatale and mysterious detective-novel damsel until he consents.
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Say the phrase "femme fatale," and you can recite the ingredients back to me by heart.
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The quintessential image of the femme fatale, or dangerous woman, was cemented in 1940s noir film.
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Or a high femme owl warding off a heteronormative holiday with her deadly, femme fatale stare?
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For their final collaborations, Mr. Godard made his soon-to-be-ex-wife a femme fatale.
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Femme fatale, fallen woman, brazen double agent — every generation has its own version of Mata Hari.
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She was a memorable femme fatale opposite Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes in "Dressed to Kill" (203).
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It had everything you'd ever need to transform into the femme fatale that is Harley Quinn.
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This is what drew me to erotic thrillers: the unselfconscious, debauched frigidity of the femme fatale.
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" Describing her character as "badass," the London native says Qi'ra "kind of follows a femme fatale arc.
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And vocal fry, for its part, is criticised as a put-on sexy, fake-femme-fatale affectation.
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She's entirely trapped into assuming this femme fatale personality, until she breaks free at the season's end.
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While Han does his best Standard-Issue Hero Face, Qi'Ra's femme fatale vibe is almost impressively expressionless.
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"White Cargo," in which she plays the campiest femme fatale since Theda Bara, is, however, exceptionally risible.
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Every erotic thriller worth its salt has a twisty (and, often, convoluted) plot and a femme fatale.
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There's a track on the album ["Femme Fatale"], I wanted to make a semi-jazz electronic thing.
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John Doyle's reclamation of Hammerstein's reimagination of Bizet's opera about a fiery femme fatale finishes its run.
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In his travels, he befriends a "femme fatale" sort of character, and they create an important bond.
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Her coolly smoldering performance of this most famous operatic femme fatale showed she was more than ready.
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Meanwhile, Ellie may be a classic noir femme fatale, or she may just be a casual acquaintance.
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The archetype of the femme fatale has proven to be fluid, and able to adapt to different eras.
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It's a trope older than the Bible, and still prevalent in the femme fatale types of modern entertainment.
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If Qi'ra seems a bit mysterious, that's by design – she's described as the femme fatale of the film.
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Barrymore is equally convincing when succumbing to the wiles of an assured and charming femme fatale (Karen Morley).
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In "After Hours," a proper bourgeois, tempted by a femme fatale, finds himself caught in an urban vortex.
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He investigated this for his book, Cultural Constructions of the Femme Fatale: From Pandora's Box to Amanda Knox.
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The femme fatale is a huge trope — not just in cinema but in real life (see Amanda Knox).
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She released solid pop albums Circus (20153) and Femme Fatale (2011), before the more introspective Britney Jean (2013).
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The goth genre has given us a very specific kind of femme fatale: disenfranchised, bold, and sometimes completely mad.
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Detective Pikachu is a traditional whodunnit story, except that it replaces the femme fatale with an electric yellow mouse.
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Read: New thrillers present women and girls who refuse the roles of passive victim, staid detective or femme fatale.
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Smith, through every kind of Bond Girl imaginable, the trope of the femme fatale spy is a pervasive one.
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The trailer for it dropped today, revealing that Robbie has yet another maniacal femme fatale character under her sleeve.
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One day, he's hired by a femme fatale puppet named Sandra White (Dorien Davies) who claims she's being blackmailed.
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The character of Simone was really interesting, because in lesser hands she'd have just been a bland femme fatale.
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A woman is not a femme fatale, a gorgeous klutz, a sexy tomboy, or a manic pixie dream girl.
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In the fine tradition of film noir saps, he hits the bars and runs smack into a femme fatale.
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Their best friends were the producer Mike Todd and his new wife, the femme-fatale film star Elizabeth Taylor.
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How did the stories (of the sexual revolution, or of a femme fatale) change when you center the woman?
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If many of these attempts have the air of a hammy "James Bond" film, Marita Lorenz was Castro's femme fatale.
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Like Fox News's femme fatale pundits, she mixed right wing politics with a brand of femininity associated with women's magazines.
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Her portrayal here is all ease and glowing smiles — she is a femme fatale reborn as a family-friendly comedian.
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Femme Fatale at the Park (210 2559th Avenue): Specifically for women, this is one of the biggest Pride Sunday events.
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Federal prosecutors have depicted her as a character out of "Red Sparrow," the spy thriller about a Russian femme fatale.
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History has painted her as an interloper -- a royal consort version of the age-old caricature of the femme fatale.
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In her interpretation of Salomé, Butler Rivera plays the tragic heroine both as a childish coquette and a femme fatale.
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So, she held the cigarette for effect — it lends the photo a sexy, glammed-up femme fatale vibe, if you will.
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Think about it: The only original female characters are a femme fatale, a widow without a clear profession, and a housekeeper.
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A modern, self-aware femme fatale, Maddie uses the expectations of femininity to lure people in — and she's unapologetic about it.
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Femme fatale Victoria Vinciguerra (Elizabeth Debicki), while attracted to Solo, vamps it up for everyone else too, including maids and servers.
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She's a cruel femme fatale, a savagely protective mother, and a power-hungry tyrant who has zero insight into her incompetence.
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She's a femme fatale all right; she's voluptuous, glamorous, but Balanchine also made her to be cold, snakelike, lethal and brutal.
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The Sphinx clearly is in control, yet her domination is gentle: femme-fatale imagery is edging into a more nuanced mode.
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And that Qi'ra (Emilia Clarke) was somewhat boxed in by her role — she's a femme fatale, a century-old movie cliche.
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Things take a brutal turn when the businesswoman femme fatale Ruolan (Zhang Yuqi) begins an attack on the sea-people's hide-out.
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And as Entertainment Weekly points out, Red Sparrow features Lawrence as a femme fatale — and the plot looks a little too recognizable.
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Kiya would be a modern-day femme fatale — seducing a man twice her age, then enacting punishment — if she weren't so young.
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But the alleged femme fatale has always maintained that she was simply auditioning for a chance to become a reality TV celeb.
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She has refused to be typecast as a siren or a femme fatale and has struggled to find roles that attract her.
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Tap into your inner femme fatale or dashing private investigator lounging in a smoky hotel bar, and keep the icy martinis flowing.
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And that was only possible because the tabloid readership salivated at the idea of a feminine monster, a hyper-sexualized femme-fatale.
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At the same time, he's hired to solve a case of blackmail for a (puppet) femme fatale, who's also a raging nymphomaniac.
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I still love the sneaky, sexy, sly femme fatale types from classic noir and neo-noir, from Double Indemnity to The Last Seduction.
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The Oscars' red carpet presented four archetypes we're familiar with in pop culture: The Bride, The Princess, The Prude, and The Femme Fatale.
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Thibault isn't a lot more complex, and his comrade Sam isn't much of a twist on the sassy femme fatale with a secret.
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On the second floor, one encounters Rist's single-channel video works from the late 80s, which playfully subvert femme fatale and diva stereotypes.
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Ms. Engstrom is flat-out hilarious as a surreal housewife with a past, who's far too zonked to play the femme fatale anymore.
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Glowing green eyes, blinding teeth and strutting legs introduce us to Bonnie, a femme fatale who addresses the camera through blood-red lips.
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The sovereign of this scene is the Siren, the ultimate femme fatale, played on Tuesday by Maria Kowroski, the company's beloved senior ballerina.
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I had already been sketching out a script for a movie about a femme fatale witch, but that's what brought the story together.
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Enticed by the femme fatale-esque character Lila, he engages in a battle with another cluster, drawing a whole lot of attention to himself.
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Profitable entertainment, but the femme fatale image promotes a misogynistic image of women as seducers who first weaken men's wills and then destroy them.
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And the spas, in turn, have been embraced by anxious fliers like Emily Lyons, chief executive of Femme Fatale Media Group, based in Toronto.
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The largely unfamiliar cast is uniformly good, especially Fitzgerald as the button-down femme fatale and Kelly, who segues convincingly between vulnerability and disdain.
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Through the character Violet, the Wachowskis manipulate the femme fatale by suggesting she's motivated to kill not by naked bloodlust but to find salvation.
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In fact, the main thing that stops King Petyr Baelish making narrative sense is the fact that Sansa is his weak spot, his femme fatale.
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Black Widow, who first showed up as a femme fatale in Iron Man 2, was handled slightly differently, but became a core Marvel character nevertheless.
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If I had grown up with different types of powerful female characters on film, maybe I wouldn't have this longing to be a femme fatale.
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The femme fatale is a robot and the robots are used as slaves: Is it weird for the hard-edged detective to sleep with her?
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Labeled everything from a femme fatale to a mentally ill convict to a victim of her own crime, Diehl-Armstrong died in prison in 2017.
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At first blush, Chiana (Gigi Edgley) is a classic femme fatale sexpot and artful dodger who slinks her way in and out of wild situations.
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Mike, meanwhile, is played by Jeremy Bobb and is something of the series' femme fatale, the guy who's bad news but irresistible for some reason.
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And in some ways, it's a spy story about spy stories, and about women in spy stories — the femme fatale, the sexy assassin, the doting wife.
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This femme fatale who somehow exudes the power to slay producers who outrank in every single way — age, status, security, reputation, cohorts — doesn't acknowledge the reality.
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I would use eccentricity as a weapon, wearing red lipstick, heels, hats, leather gloves, and extreme clothes—kind of like a femme fatale or a villain.
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And despite there being precedent (fellow blonde femme fatale Kim Basinger won the award for a noir thriller, L.A. Confidential, in 1997), it does surprise us.
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"Dynasty" works a little too hard at living up (or down) to its splashy billboards in the early going, with Gillies overplaying the femme fatale shtick.
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Comic-Con would've presented a good opportunity to hype up the femme fatale team-up, so its absence could signal that the project has been backburnered.
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Ms. Lind — who has appeared as a docile Shakespearean heroine in Public Theater productions — shows a wicked comic wit here as a badge-toting femme fatale.
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Dominika is sentimental (mostly about her mother), but she isn't sentimentalized and never becomes the movie's virgin or its whore, its femme fatale or good girl.
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Lupin often commits his capers with help from a sharp-eyed gunman, Daisuke Jigen; a master swordsman, Goemon Ishikawa XIII; and a femme fatale, Fujiko Mine.
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In The Love Witch, released in May, Biller toys with the idea of the femme fatale by showing the archetype's dangerous sexuality through her own eyes.
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But that's all interrupted by the femme fatale, striding into his mushroom-shaped office Sin City-style with bright pink lips in a black and white world.
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Often, the goth movie femme fatale is presented as especially unhinged; if women exist as marginalized outliers, then the goth woman is even further outside of that.
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The show was noir, Logan was a gender-flipped femme fatale, and the reason their relationship was compelling was that they were both deeply messed-up people.
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It's not Dior, by the way, but it nonetheless effortlessly evokes a certain postwar femme fatale glamour, which is duly undermined by the opossum in line three.
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Impasse Ronsin was the address of Marguerite Steinheil, the consummate femme fatale and lover of many prominent men, including the French President at the time, Félix Faure.
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Before you can say "femme fatale," Chance has gone against all past practice and gotten involved, at considerable risk to his safety and that of his family.
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Critic score: 32%Audience score: 57%Stone appeared in one of her more daring roles as a femme fatale involved with mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn).
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He winds up with a dead man riding shotgun and, later, under the thumb of Ann Savage, as perhaps the most pitiless femme fatale of the era.
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As Karen, Hathaway makes a jaw-dropping entrance — long blond tresses and soul-crushed eyes, a femme fatale in white — in the only bar on Plymouth Island.
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In John Doyle's revival, Anika Noni Rose stars as a femme fatale with David Aron Damane and Clifton Duncan as the other points in this love triangle.
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During a time when studios ascribed to Eurocentric aesthetics, Lincoln's choice to wear a short Afro ran counter to the straight-haired, fair-skinned, prototypical femme fatale.
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It tells of a calculating femme fatale who can also be seen as a victimized young woman getting ahead as best she can in a male-dominated society.
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A classic academic reading of the femme fatale resurgence states that femmes fatales were a response to women entering the public sphere in unprecedented numbers in the '40s.
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Dangerous Beauty: Medusa in Classical Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art explores how the snake-haired Gorgon transformed from a hideous monster into a beautiful femme fatale.
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In season three, the Byrdes will be funneling some of the mob's money through a casino, with the help of the young femme fatale Ruth Langmore (Julia Garner).
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Caroline Polachek, from Chairlift, took on two Nico songs, "Femme Fatale" and "Sunday Morning," with careful aplomb; Sky Ferreira sang "I'll Be Your Mirror" with an alternate melody.
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The German soprano Marlis Petersen, known by audiences from Munich to New York as the title character of Berg's "Lulu," makes her debut as the femme fatale Salome.
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Is Marianne a stylized studio-era feminine ideal, or a film noir femme fatale — or something else entirely, a modern woman decked out in Hollywood hand-me-downs?
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The Twin Peaks locals cover a vast range, from femme fatale Audrey (who usually enters a scene to her own slinky theme music) to lovable doof Officer Andy.
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The video stars Johnny Depp as the struggling rocker and Faye Dunaway as an industry femme fatale who lures him into a cameo-filled world of glamour and greed.
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So once I knew that their love was real, then I was able to really move forward with this sort of sweet, bubbly, optimistic version of a femme fatale.
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Idris Goodwin's "Black Flag," an argument about race in America set in a college dorm room, and Alexander Dinelaris's femme-fatale mini-drama, "Queen," are rather flat (2777:2777).
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Idris Goodwin's "Black Flag," an argument about race in America set in a college dorm room, and Alexander Dinelaris's femme-fatale mini-drama, "Queen," are rather flat (220:2777).
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Idris Goodwin's "Black Flag," an argument about race in America set in a college dorm room, and Alexander Dinelaris's femme-fatale mini-drama, "Queen," are rather flat (22:200).
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Idris Goodwin's "Black Flag," an argument about race in America set in a college dorm room, and Alexander Dinelaris's femme-fatale mini-drama, "Queen," are rather flat (1:30).
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Peggy Cummins, an actress best remembered for her turn as a femme fatale with a hair trigger in the influential low-budget film noir "Gun Crazy," died on Dec.
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It's "subversive for a strong woman to dress like a femme fatale," Ms. Fendi said before the show (she herself was wearing a buffalo plaid shirt and gray pants).
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The cast may be the strongest yet, with Mary Elizabeth Winstead a particular standout as a femme fatale with more brain power than most of the other characters combined.
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But Lynch refuses to see her as either just a "victim" or a doomed, villainous femme fatale, but a difficult woman who has internalized her abuse in toxic ways.
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I wanted nothing to do with the femme fatale of the story, May-Ling, but come my first ending it was her who, albeit unintentionally, brought about Matt's undoing.
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Hathaway (more specifically, a blonde Hathaway) is pitch-perfect as a femme fatale, so much so that it makes me wonder why she hasn't gifted us a true noir before.
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" She notes that listener observed that the series flipped the gender script on a familiar noir trope as the romance unfolds: "The femme fatale is a male in this story.
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Spears' 2011 album Femme Fatale aged badly within a year of release, so it's easy to forget that for a mainstream release, it was kind of progressive for a minute.
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But equally fascinating is the transformation of femme fatale Julia (Clare Higgins) as she evolves from proper suburbanite housewife to a serial murderer clearly having the time of her life.
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Here the F.B.I. agent is a sensitive guy grieving over a bad breakup, and the C.I.A. agent is a sarcastic femme fatale-action figure with a fondness for enhanced interrogation.
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This brings to mind Jessica Rabbit, the bodacious femme fatale in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" who purrs "I'm just drawn that way" — yeah, but by whom, for whom and why?
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The femme fatale is already a very complicated archetype, and has been done many times and with great depth and skill, so I don't think I've added anything to it.
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I have no doubt Conor McGregor would make a hell of a leading man in the movies, or that Miesha Tate could be true femme fatale with a few acting classes.
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There's a priest with a murky past, a crass vacuum-cleaner salesman, a baby-faced bellhop, a singer with an angelic voice, a charismatic cult leader and a southern femme fatale.
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A dark-skinned, full-bodied, sexually voracious femme fatale with an insatiable appetite for violence and destruction, Kali is a ripe symbol of female empowerment, and feminist rage at social injustice.
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Oh. Slowly, though, she found her niche playing beautiful women, more often than not of a certain age, who functioned as a sort of highbrow, high-class, high-strung femme fatale.
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At the heart of the story is a blond femme fatale, Caroline Crowley (Yvonne Strahovski) whose demonic husband, Simon (Campbell Scott), a world-famous filmmaker, is addicted to extreme practical jokes.
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His fourth wife, the performer Abbe Lane, a femme fatale type, divorced him and he wanted her replacement in his band to be her opposite; enter Charo, in all her glory.
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Brian De Palma imagined a more glamorous version of the experience in "Femme Fatale" (Sunday and Monday), which opens with a wildly elaborate jewel heist in the festival's Grand Théâtre Lumière.
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Visually, Waller-Bridge resembles a nineteen-forties femme fatale (soot hair, brick lips), and she often contorts her face in curlicues of amused disgust—she's like Rosalind Russell, bravado in slacks.
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When Bridget ultimately commits murder by spraying mace down a man's throat, her weapon of choice is no coincidence: The femme fatale prevails by turning lethal the tools of feminine susceptibility.
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In her relatively short and wholly vivid life, Diana was many things — naïve victim; media-savvy manipulator; loving mother; fashion icon; lost soul; compassionate charity campaigner; femme fatale — take your pick.
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But the third album of her tuneful, bonus-studded catalogue stars the torchy femme fatale who always lurked underneath, and by now half the objects of her exploitation are pretty clearly jerks.
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Absolutely. I try to be really honest about the fact that, as a woman who presents myself in quite a feminine way, I've always been really drawn to those femme fatale characters.
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Tabu seems to play the femme fatale better than anyone else in this industry - she is at once coy, then vulnerable and then ruthless, making this one of her most memorable roles.
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"Make Me" is the first single from her as-yet-undetailed new LP, and it's the best thing she's released since her Femme Fatale days: low-key, largely unadorned pop-R&B.
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"We always loved the vixen, the femme fatale, and all the villains have these qualities," David Blond told Reuters of the inspiration for the collection he envisioned along with partner Phillipe Blond.
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All men are cheating scumbags, Katherine is the "nagging shrew," and Catherine is a femme fatale who's later revealed to be a literal succubus who "tricks" men into cheating on their partners.
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What in the World "It's a natural pairing," Stefana Gospodinova, a 64-year-old resident of Staro Zhelezare, a remote Bulgarian village, said of herself and Brigitte Bardot, the French femme fatale.
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We next see them being approached by a femme fatale, Trudy (Christina Hendricks), who knows of a job that will pay them $100,000 each (big money in the late-1980s time frame).
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There's a grouchy principal (Dean Norris), a horny guidance counselor (Jillian Bell), a dweeby security guard (Kumail Nanjiani), a nutty football coach (Tracy Morgan) and a femme fatale French instructor (Christina Hendricks).
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Pike — who starred as femme fatale Miranda Frost in the 2002 film Die Another Day, opposite Pierce Brosnan as the womanizing British agent — said her view of the films is different in hindsight.
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This fall a group of new books from established and debut authors continues the trend, presenting women and girls who refuse the roles of passive victim, staid detective or standard-issue femme fatale.
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Mulwray, is said to be described as "Confident and tough… she's a beautiful, icy, femme fatale who gets caught up in a conspiracy that's much bigger than she initially realized," Entertainment Tonight reported.
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Like much of the cyberpunk genre, Altered Carbon is steeped in the noir tradition, with familiar tropes like the reluctant detective, the femme fatale, and a case that's more complicated than it seems.
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Baker also gives us some standard noir elements: the shadowy landscape of Los Angeles, the obligatory violence (the "face split open like an overripe fig"), the alluring femme fatale in a black negligee.
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But when we first see her in half-light standing over the bloodied body of a naked man, she registers not as the femme fatale in the picture but the damsel in distress.
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In Netflix's "What/If," a neo-noir social thriller from Mike Kelley ("Revenge") debuting on Friday, May 22017, Zellweger purrs as Anne Montgomery, a ruthless San Francisco venture capitalist and cunning femme fatale.
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She initially looks like a fairly standard crime-picture damsel in distress, too meek and damaged to be a femme fatale, but just as capable of drawing a hero into a deadly conflict.
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The look doesn't match characters' over-the-top fashions and melodramatic voice acting, either — when your story includes a femme fatale android in a skimpy wraparound leotard, you'd better lean into the stylized weirdness.
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Always the outsider, Sonja evokes her smugly well-adjusted sister Kate, once a "barn-dance femme fatale" and now also a caring super-mum; Ellen, a massage-therapist; and a psychologist chum called Molly.
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"When I was on trial for murder in Italy, the media tried to paint me as a 'femme fatale,' " says Knox, who later adds that "fell into a depression" after her own initial conviction.
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Translated by Jiyoon Lee, Johannes Göransson, and Don Mee Choi Kim Yideum, a South Korean poet, is the author of Cheer Up, Femme Fatale (Action Books, 2016), a selection of her poetry in translation.
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She has also worked with Janet Jackson and as Spears's background dancer on her 2001 Dream Within a Dream Tour, 2004 promo portion of the Onyx Hotel Tour, and the 2012 Femme Fatale Tour.
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Toward my second time around with her [on the Femme Fatale Tour], we did things like spa days, where she would rent out a spa for all of us to go enjoy the spa.
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Alexander Dinelaris, who directs "The Dark Clothes of Night," wrote the second play in Series B, "Queen," which also features a femme fatale, a schlump of a hero and a detective on the trail.
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The prosecution and tabloid media cast me as a femme fatale, a sex-crazed she-devil who murdered my roommate in a drug- and/or jealousy-fueled rage during a sex game gone wrong.
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Ms. Spears's albums in the 2000s, like "Blackout" and "Femme Fatale," showed that she and her advisers know something about the dynamics of celebrity and media, as she toyed with provocation and selective revelation.
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Be it the femme fatale, the proper lady, the damsel in distress, Burkhart effortlessly (and gleefully) subverts audience expectations by blurring the lines between the public and private, juxtaposing the pristine with the profane.
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Grace Kelly epitomized the on-screen Hitchcock femme fatale, though it's off-screen allegations from one of his frequent collaborators that has the director's name back in the headlines these days, for disturbing reasons.
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But I am trying to bring the femme fatale back as a positive sort of figure for women to relate to, since she's been out of mainstream movies at least for a long time.
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His allies include femme fatale Marie-Madeleine (Delphine Seyrig) and the squirrely M. Drugstore (Serge Gainsbourg), while his enemies are Soviet super villain Moujik Man (Philippe Noiret) and Red China Man (an enormous inflatable dragon).
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Netflix is working on a new TV series about a gruff detective, a troubling femme-fatale, and a mysterious murder — a pretty stock noir setup, if it weren't also set 500 years in the future.
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She's a femme fatale Panzer with Pantene Hair, the ass of a 10-year-old boy, and enough megatonnage of revenge to insure American adventures in imperial expansion for as long as the franchise survives.
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Mr. Fuller himself appears briefly as a blackmailed American senator, but mainly "Dead Pigeon" is a valentine addressed to Mr. Fuller's wife, the German actress Christa Lang, playing an actress turned femme fatale named Christa.
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It's classic noir narrative to its bones, with all the required accouterments: the ceiling fans, the shadows, the tough guys, the morally ambiguous protagonist and the femme fatale, all drawn in Feiffer's signature dancing scribble.
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Axe, who knows Taylor has been gunning for the country's cash, too — in shockingly effective femme fatale drag, no less — is desperate to get his man back for business reasons as well as personal ones.
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He also, according to Callow, saw the picture as a chance to repair his failing marriage to Rita Hayworth, and he cast her as the femme fatale in this moody and visually striking film noir.
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SERENITY The captain of a fishing boat (Matthew McConaughey) is approached by his ex-wife (Anne Hathaway, in femme fatale blond hair), who wants him to feed her current husband (Jason Clarke) to the sharks.
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But it's something The Americans does quietly, and very well, in part by deepening a role that could be an archetype (the double agent femme fatale, in Nina's case) and into something far more complex.
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His second album, 2002's Sound Loaded, tried to replicate his initial success and was launched with another horns-and-hips pop ode to a femme fatale, "She Bangs," but the US market had moved on.
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Take the lede from this piece from the Herald Scotland, published in September of 19973: MARRIAGE wrecker, femme fatale, a blonde Venus flytrap who consumes men like insects—Princess Diana can do nothing right these days.
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Fresh off her Oscar-nominated turn as the sharp-edged ice skater in "I, Tonya," Margot Robbie returns to the screen as a fictional femme fatale in "Terminal," which has just released its first full trailer.
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With the exception of the Fox Demon, a chibi, two-faced femme fatale who carries herself with confidence and sass, all of the characters in White Snake are remarkably bland, especially the lackluster and forgettable villains.
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The plot involves an intricate conspiracy with a cynical cop (Vlad Ivanov), a femme fatale (Catrinel Marlon) and an international cast of gangsters who communicate in Silbo Gomero, the "whistling language" used in the Canary Islands.
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It can be easy to play Manon as a ruthless femme fatale, for example, as she becomes the toast of Paris, and Ms. Oropesa was suddenly big-voiced, glamorously tossing off high notes with insouciant sprezzatura.
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Like the exploitable men who were little more than marks for these women, I was lured in by the femme fatale who perceived the world as either a vehicle for personal opportunity or nothing at all.
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She forms tentative alliances with your standard right-hand man (played here by James McAvoy) and falls for a femme fatale (played here by Sofia Boutella), and all of the standard detective noir tropes play out.
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Let's take a look at the evolution of the femme fatale character in movies — and why the recent uptick of movies featuring violent leading likes, like Atomic Blonde and Red Sparrow, is actually the mark of evolution.
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Their attention-grabbing debut film, Bound, is a racy, fun lesbian neo-noir starring Jennifer Tilly as a traditional femme-fatale type, and Gina Gershon as the much less conventional tough patsy who falls for her scheme.
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Yet even as prosecutors secured Ms. Butina's conviction and cooperation, they faced questions about their initial portrayal of Ms. Butina as something like a character out of "Red Sparrow," the spy thriller about a Russian femme fatale.
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"Till the World Ends," from Spears' 2011 album Femme Fatale, was borne from Spears' latest career phase—managed by a conservatorship that was set up following her highly publicized mental health struggles in the mid-to-late-2000s.
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While Elizabeth often has to blend in, she just as often has to make herself noticeable in the right kind of way to approach a target; in the first couple of seasons, she frequently played a femme fatale.
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"Till the World Ends," from Spears' 2011 album Femme Fatale, was borne from Spears' latest career phase—managed by a conservatorship that was set up following her highly publicized mental health struggles in the mid-to-late-2000s.
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There's an odd fatalism about Gaga's tryst with that femme fatale Fame: not only does she know, from the abundant literature on the subject, that celebrity is soul-eroding, she's made that the major theme of her work.
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Featuring a femme fatale, a corrupt cop and an eclectic soundtrack that opens with Iggy Pop's 1977 "The Passenger," the Romanian crime drama "The Whistlers" includes elements that could have been plucked from almost any Tarantino-esque bloodbath.
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Some character-driven songs are cringe-worthy for feminists in the audience — the Lolita character singing "My Heart Belongs to Daddy," the Femme Fatale "looking for a millionaire" — but the dancers perform them with irresistible, Broadway-style energy.
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And in case this seems like a trend of the past, consider the more recent noir "Blade Runner 2049," where the holographic femme fatale is deleted and the remaining women are stabbed, drowned and gutted like a fish.
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The target audience for these books was usually young, white men, and the lurid covers that featured male heroes and helpless or femme fatale women can be seen as a precedent to the character patterns of American comic books.
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With the Fargo-ish Bill and Phyllis Hastings (Matthew Lillard, Cornelia Guest), just an average, ordinary pair of suburban fakes and unhappily married folks, we have a middle-aged man breaking bad and a desperate housewife going femme fatale.
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The cast includes a mix of faces old (Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson) and new (Henry Cavill, looking pretty super even without the cape; and Vanessa Kirby, an arresting femme fatale, following her breakout role in "The Crown").
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The tale "begins at the end," or so a ferret-like Ms. Fouéré informs us, allowing Ms. Farber to grant a degree of revolutionary zeal and agency to the femme fatale who demanded the head of John the Baptist.
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Yes, this episode had an outrageous, if interrupted, sex scene between Lucious Lyon and his wife-of-convenience Anika, in which actor Grace Byers seemed to have more fun in her role of the femme fatale than ever before.
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The corruption scandal erupting around Bolivia's president Evo Morales appears to be following the plotline of a classic Latin American telenovela, complete with a femme fatale tricking her lover, a long-lost lovechild and, just possibly, a happy ending.
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Kozyra's original idea included transforming Friedrich Nietzsche and Rainer Maria Rilke into dogs, situating herself in the guise of a whip-wielding femme fatale in control of the philosophical greats, depicted in the film as dogs on a leash.
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We're no longer hung up on simple khaki coats from the femme fatale era of Hollywood, nor do we need another thin, belted option in obvious reds and grays; but added embellishments like skirt pleats, satin finishes, and oversized shoulders?
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From child star in E.T. to ass-kicking femme fatale in Charlie's Angels, the actress and mother of two has apparently seen and done it all — most recently branching into business with the creation of an affordable beauty line: Flower.
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She's a femme fatale, a point reinforced by a comment Clarke recently made to Vanity Fair about how original directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller (who left the production citing "creative differences" and were replaced with Ron Howard) viewed the character.
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Danielle Darrieux, the French actress and singer whose career of sophisticated film roles spanned eight decades and indelible incarnations as ingénue, coquette, femme fatale and grande dame, died on Tuesday at her home in Bois-le-Roi, France, south of Paris.
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In particular, the debut season features everything from a rumination on how the spirit of the '60s faded away to a femme fatale performance by Christina Hendricks to a pair of weirdo assassins straight out of a pulp crime novel.
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In AJ And The Queen, the roles are a little different: Ruby is that femme fatale, and the homeless director is the young girl, AJ. They also found inspo, according to Charles, in films like To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything!
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Libby: It seems out of character that Paige even asked — the honey trap/femme fatale isn't exactly a new trope in American popular culture, and her parents once lectured her about how sex makes you vulnerable and you say things you shouldn't.
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This quote that hit home for performance artist Louise Orwin, partly because the 29-year-old recognized the uneasy truth in it: She's long loved the smoulder of the femme fatale, and grew up on a diet of Westerns, road movies, and Tarantino.
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Through thoughtful editing and a grounded sense of setting and narrative, Carr visualizes the trajectory of a victim of intense physical abuse, charting her course from infantilized mommy's girl to enigmatic femme fatale — all against the Grand Guignol backdrop of the tattered South.
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Lisa, the femme fatale played by an awkward 20-year-old Daniels (who had no idea what she was getting into), is presented like a sultry Victoria's Secret model, even though her lines are more appropriate for a scheming daytime television matriarch.
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The vital Prototype festival — the city's most important spotlight on contemporary opera, broadly defined — opens with the premiere of Matt Marks's "Mata Hari," in which the title femme fatale reflects on her life while living out her days in a Paris prison.
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Mr. Katz gives "Gemini" the expected smoggy freeways and a blonde on a billboard, as well as the kind of mystery that certain Hollywood dreams are made of, complete with a femme fatale, a detective and a lonely horn on the soundtrack.
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An object of shared fascination, she sits at the center of a story, silent and inscrutable, ready to play whatever role she is cast in: the homecoming queen, the femme fatale, the nymphomaniac fetish model with a death wish and a coke habit.
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This proudly explicit program draws an implicit line from the fully clothed eroticism of "Double Indemnity" (Friday and Tuesday) and "Vertigo" (Sunday and Monday) to the more-unbuttoned pastiches of those films made by Brian De Palma ("Femme Fatale," Tuesday and Feb.
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One of the most moving moments in the whole series arrives when Karyn, a 37-year-old lesbian masquerading as an unrealistically glamorous femme fatale named Mercedeze, gets blocked and shows up to reveal herself to Chris, the Circle's one openly gay man.
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Noirs are tragedies not only on the level of the individual characters — although the protagonist and femme fatale alike usually end up worse off at the end of the story than when they started — but on the level of the whole narrative world.
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I wanted to talk to him about all that [dialogue] because I thought that one of the opportunities in playing this character was to play a character with all the iconography of a femme fatale, but with the history of the feminist movement behind her.
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The Tiger Lillies' "rock vaudeville" is a frequently vulgar song cycle about a complex, fascinating heroine: a woman who is a both sexual victim and perpetrator; a femme fatale who is at once a projection screen for male fantasies and a manipulative agent of destruction.
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Jef Huereque's painting "My Parents in Their Matching Zoot Suits" (1973) and Judith F. Baca's '163s photographs of herself as a femme fatale hark back to 1940s Los Angeles, while Laura Aguilar's pictures document people who frequented the Plush Pony lesbian bar in the '90s.
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Katarina Witt, from East Germany, fully inhabited the role of the cigarette-girl femme fatale through her dramatic choreography, while the American Debi Thomas, then a pre-med student at Stanford University, strove for technical excellence with a gymnast's clean lines and economy of style.
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Ms. Hannigan, again riveting, joined the quartet for "Pandora's Box," Mr. Zorn's intensely dramatic, mood-shifting take on the story of Wedekind's femme fatale Lulu — inspired, he told the audience, by Berg's opera on the same subject, in which Ms. Hannigan has had brilliant successes.
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The more refined end of that spectrum might include "Body Heat" (Tuesday), Lawrence Kasdan's sweat-drenched 28 rehash of "Double Indemnity," starring Kathleen Turner, in her first film role, as a femme fatale and an on-the-rise William Hurt as a credulous lawyer.
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Building on the vocabulary of the femme fatale (fur, beads, feathers and satin sheaths) as well as the homemaker (knits and mohair, "hairy" fabrics), she built from a base of 1970s ERA-era corduroy suiting and patchwork snakeskin and leather coats and buckled boots.
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The more refined end of that spectrum might include "Body Heat" (Tuesday), Lawrence Kasdan's sweat-drenched 1981 rehash of "Double Indemnity," starring Kathleen Turner, in her first film role, as a femme fatale and an on-the-rise William Hurt as a credulous lawyer.
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Included in this exhibition — Ottinger's first in New York in nearly 214 years — are shots from her experimental femme-fatale allegory The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors (25), stills from her lesbian-pirate film Madame X (993), and real-life images documenting a snowy market in Odessa.
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The film is modeled directly on hardboiled detective stories by authors like Dashiell Hammett and others, and it boasts many of the same plot elements — the lovelorn detective, the femme fatale, the seedy underbelly of an apparently respectable society (in this case, an affluent high school).
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We hear about her before we ever see her, in a conversation between hit men Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) that foreshadows her as a bored trophy wife (or femme fatale) looking to enlist her husband's employees in dangerous jealousy games.
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"I would say to anybody who is voicing concerns about this being a female character trope of a classic femme fatale, I think in coming weeks you'll find that she's not as one-dimensional or as general as you might imagine her to be," she said.
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"Medusa, in effect, became the archetypal femme fatale: a conflation of femininity, erotic desire, violence, and death," writes Kiki Karoglou, associate curator in the Met's Department of Greek and Roman Art and organizer of Dangerous Beauty, in an issue of the Met's quarterly Bulletin on the show.
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Blade Runner draws some visual and narrative cues from neo-noir — dark and moody lighting, light shining through window shades, a femme fatale, and a morally conflicted protagonist — while being set in a dystopian future (2019!), and the narration makes the neo-noir side really come through.
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CAITY WEAVER Probably not since Josef von Sternberg used costuming to transform Marlene Dietrich from a plump German starlet into a mesmerizing world-weary femme fatale in "Morocco" has a director deployed fashion in the service of atmosphere and character more astutely than Wong Kar-wai.
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Married at least eight times, calling everyone "Dahlink," flaunting a diamonds-and-furs lifestyle and abetted by gossip columnists and tabloid headline writers, Ms. Gabor played the coifed platinum femme fatale in plunging necklines in dozens of film and television roles, many of them cameos as herself.
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Shenmue III picks up where we left off on martial arts celibate Ryo Hazuki's magical quest for vengeance against crime lord Lan Di. That naughty, dedicatedly old school Lan Di is still stirring up shit it seems, and now joined by a new femme fatale, Niao Sun.
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Film scholars have often discussed the double-crossing femme fatale as a sexist figure, made for consumption by the male gaze, but never to be trusted—a threat to all that is right, fair, and masculine in the world, and a cliché of the duplicitous female.
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Polly plays the femme fatale role, and Adam her suspicious pursuer, first professional, then personal, but the ground shifts so much between them and around them that their romance is a true one — and the ending, which explains everything, is so beautifully earned I'm still roiled by its audacity.
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Amanda Knox, which was released Friday, also explores how the international tabloid media and its fascination with Knox's looks, sex life and drug habits fueled worldwide speculation about whether the then-20-year-old study abroad student was either railroaded or a sex-crazed femme fatale with a knife.
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And while there are many aspects of her character we can and in some cases should question -- her Third Reich sympathies among them -- to view her legacy as an unscrupulous "harpy," a seductress, or a femme fatale who dragged the king from duty is neither true nor fair.
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Ewan McGregor's dual role has been getting most of the attention so far, but Mary-Elizabeth Winstead's work as Nikki has been the bigger standout — in part because of Winstead's unwavering confidence as a femme fatale, but also because Nikki isn't quite as smart as her own measure.
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A tricky, self-aware film noir that openly flaunts its love of classic hardboiled detective clichés, Brick sees Joseph Gordon-Levitt going on a quest to solve the mysterious death of his ex-girlfriend while femme fatale Nora Zehetner leads him through a labyrinthine ring of teen drug peddlers.
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Even gender comes, wittily, into question: We first see Eboli — the princess who falls for Carlos and sleeps with Philippe, betraying almost everyone — as the leader of a court of androgynous ladies-in-waiting in fencing uniforms, before she shifts to slinky femme-fatale gowns and an omnipresent cigarette.
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Nicola L's feminism flowed into a series of collages on wood that were inspired by the poems of Dorothy Parker, shown at the Rempire Gallery in SoHo in 1991, and her nine "Femme Fatale" paintings from 1995, exhibited that year at the Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, also in SoHo.
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What you'll find are photos from Britney's personal life growing up in Kentwood, a replica of her childhood bedroom famously pictured in Rolling Stone, a replica of her stage, and her iconic wings from the 2011 Femme Fatale Tour—which you can take a photo with for a mere three dollars.
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Elvis people and Beatles people, a new challenge for your consideration: Do you prefer Hayworth (2708-29400) in black and white — as an international femme fatale in "The Lady From Shanghai" (on Friday, Saturday and Wednesday) or singing "Put the Blame on Mame" in "Gilda" (on Friday, Saturday and Thursday)?
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Related: The Year the 'Pink Tide' Turned: Latin America in 2015 The corruption scandal erupting around Bolivia's president Evo Morales appears to be following the plotline of a classic Latin American telenovela, complete with a femme fatale tricking her lover, a long-lost lovechild and, just possibly, a happy ending.
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Anyone familiar with detective novels or noir cinema knows exactly what that phrase means: smoke-filled nightclubs, back-alley gambling houses and dark, seedy opium dens, all frequented by a motley assortment of Chinese mobsters, White Russian émigrés, fugitive criminals of all nations and at least one gorgeous femme fatale with a past.
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The theatre will offer new independent and foreign films along with classic fare, programmed by Jake Perlin and Aliza Ma. The inaugural series, "Surrender to the Screen," features movies in which moviegoing looms large, including Tsai Ming-liang's "Goodbye, Dragon Inn," Peter Bogdanovich's "The Last Picture Show," and Brian De Palma's "Femme Fatale."
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Up to any challenge, she was a femme fatale in 1981's The French Lieutenant's Woman, a nuclear-plant worker in 1983's Silkwood, a Danish noblewoman in 173's Out of Africa, a derelict in 1987's Ironweed and an Australian mother suspected of murder in 1988's A Cry in the Dark.
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But his assessment of the interrelation between metal music's prototypical femme fatale and that music's female audience is more illuminating when applied to the sensuous, atmospheric goth metal of the '90's and '00's—a scene with Type O at its vanguard—than the glam and hair metal bands who were the basis for his study.
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Superbly equipped by the cold edges of her classically sculpted looks to incarnate the concept of the femme fatale, Lena Headey beams Cersei's radiant malevolence at such a depth into the viewer's mind that she reawakens a formative disturbance: did my mother look after me because she loved me, or was she doing all that only because she had to?
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The Season 2 premiere of "Amazing Stories" is also the funniest of the show's several tales of dysfunctional romance: Danny DeVito, who also directs, and his real-life partner, Rhea Perlman, star as Herbert and Lois, a frustrated married couple who learn to stop taking each other for granted after he gives her a possessed wedding band that transforms her into a murderous and insatiable femme fatale.
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There's Coco Chanel's 1920s evening dress, a loose shift dress signaling women's slow liberation from the corset and from which the concept of the "little black dress" was born; there's Thierry Mugler's femme fatale version from 1981 — all exploded shoulders and cinched waists and an emphasis on the breasts; and there's a version by Rick Owens from his spring 2014 collection, which featured an entirely African American step team as its models.
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Though she left acting behind following the release of her last picture, the 1962 U.K. comedy In the Doghouse, Cummins' legacy as the sharp-shooting femme fatale in the Dalton Trumbo-penned Gun Crazy endured over the course of her life, with the film being selected in 1998 for preservation by the Library of Congress and later appearing as a contender for a spot on the American Film Institute's 100 Greatest American Movies list.
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Sean Young, who elegantly channeled noir style in Blade Runner, is femme fatale Lola Cain, bringing both glamour and goofy physical humor (she parodies Sharon Stone's infamous Basic Instinct leg uncrossing by loudly announcing "I'm not wearing panties!" and inelegantly opening her legs as wide as possible); Ned's dutiful secretary, Laura Lingonberry, is played by none other than a post–Audrey Horne Sherilyn Fenn; the plot, with its seductions, murders, and trials, is largely incidental.
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Promising productions this year include Anatomy Theater, composed by David Lang with scenic design by artist Mark Dion, and inspired by 17th- and 18th-century medical texts; Missy Mazzoli's Breaking the Waves, about a wife's harrowing sacrifice; Matt Marks's Mata Hari, on the conviction of the alleged World War I femme fatale; and M. Lamar and Hunter Hunt-Hendrix's Funeral Doom Spiritual, which sings out for a timely ruin to white supremacy.
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At first glance, they have little to nothing in common: One is a horror movie starring Sandra Bullock as a mother fighting to save her children in a post-apocalyptic world where blindfolds and chirpy birds are the only things standing between them and death by suicide-inducing creatures; the other is Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick's noir femme fatale thriller with a twist; the third is a World War II drama with a surprising love story between a biracial German girl and a young Nazi.
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