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.

When his style was adapted to crime stories in the late 1920s and '30s, most successfully for writers such as Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Raymond Chandler, the seeds of noir were planted.

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

Three examples of the film noir revival have reached video in recent weeks: ”The Two Jakes” on Feb. 28, ”After Dark, My Sweet” on March 7 and ”The Hot Spot” on Thursday.

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.

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.

Frequently cited as an example of when film noir, to appropriate a TV idiom, “jumped the shark,” Kiss Me Deadly long ago overcame its initial bad press to become one of the most beloved and ...

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