For fans of Humphrey Bogart's To Have and Have Not, there's a lesser-known adaptation from six years later that stars a ...

One of the earlier examples of film noir, Scarlet Street stars Hollywood Golden Age legend Edward G. Robinson in one of his most complex roles. Robinson plays Christopher Cross, ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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

Features Sin City and the eternal, seductive allure of film noir. The release of Sin City: A Dame To Kill For inspires James to look back at its film noir roots, and some classic examples of the ...

Sanchez lists film noir, the genre of American thrillers and detective films made in the 1940s and '50s by directors such as Orson Welles, as a prime example of this technique of tension-building.

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.