Why it is one of the best film noir movies: One of the most beautifully executed examples of the classic “girl meets boy, girl convinces boy to kill her spouse” film noir set-up comes from The ...

While those movies are certainly examples of noir, the genre is more expansive than that, identified by morally gray protagonists, dark aesthetics, and an overall cynical view of the world.

In 1949, when White Heat was released, films were not granted the same freedoms of expression as their Pre-code ...

Clocks often appear in film noir, such as this scene from the 1946 movie “The Stranger” with Orson Welles and Loretta Young. ... often cited as one of the greatest examples of film noir.

On Film/Opinion. Millennial ‘Falcon’: Where did film noir begin? January 20, 2023 at 1:31 a.m. by Philip Martin ...

Lucky number 13. Talk about a stroke of film noir fate! The 2023 edition of Noir City Chicago, the annual celebration of mean streets and what the French call “malchance,” gathers a week’s ...

The Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in Palm Springs will host Guillermo Del Toro showing an expanded B&W 'Nightmare Alley,' along with '40s classics.