The film noir genre is an undoubtedly unique one, as itâ s perhaps the only genre that has a specific period during which it existed: from the early 1940s until the end of the 1950s. There were movies ...

Noir is among cinema's best, most influential movements, and fans on Letterboxd have bestowed high scores on classics like ...

“Scream queen” Kathleen Hughes Rubin thrived for nearly a century in Hollywood. Despite her image as a sexy screen siren of the 1950s, she enjoyed an enduring marriage to producer Stanley Rubin, and ...

The rain-slicked streets, the morally ambiguous detective, the femme fatale with a hidden agenda—these classic elements of film noir were too good to fade away into oblivion. So they evolved. Film ...

Tragedy is the stuff of great drama, but in the world of cinema it is usually given short shrift. Most of the time, Hollywood has a clear preference for happy endings. Filmmakers may tease a sad or ...

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 worth of ...

'Body and Soul,' 'Shadow of a Doubt' and 'Dead Reckoning' are among a dozen classic or obscure films programmed over a four-day weekend at the Palm Springs Cultural Center. Like the Hollywood-based ...

Experts say the genre was all about suspense, and what better way to convey that to audiences than an obsession with time? By David Belcher The race against the clock — to solve a crime, to outwit a ...