A great thriller, The Third Mancapped off the noir boom of the 1940s with a stellar cast, intense storyline and resonant ...

Before there was film noir, films like Dead End or You Only Live Once ushered in the genre, and we rank the best of these ...

However, in reality, a great film noir movie is anything that tells an intriguing ... only to uncover an even more troubling case in 1940s Los Angeles. What it’s about: An insurance executive ...

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Noirvember isn’t on any list of official holidays, but the informal, social-media-driven movement where cinephiles watch and ...

This shift supported the emerging “semidocumentary” style in noir cinema, which combined shadowed cinematography, morally ...

We talk about noir plotting and tropes, but in fact it drew liberally from the gangster pics of the Depression/Prohibition era, crime procedurals, heist movies, horror films (again, the German ...

Errico writes about the summits and shoals of a performer’s life as she embarks on her ongoing “Sondheim in The City” tour.

Film noir was one of the most popular genres during World War II, featuring cynical heroes, expressive light and shadow, and a pervading sense of futility.

This choice exposed me to the marvelous world of film scholarship, adding to my already fervent love for movies since I had been a self-monikered cinephile throughout my teens. The decision also ...