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For fans of Humphrey Bogart's To Have and Have Not, there's a lesser-known adaptation from six years later that stars a ...
The film noir genre has produced some of the grittiest classics in movie history, and plenty of classic noir films are streaming for free.
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.
A Sinister Figure Glances at a Clock. It’s Got to Be Film Noir. Experts say the genre was all about suspense, and what better way to convey that to audiences than an obsession with time?
Growing up watching old gangster movies was a great bonding experience for Jack DeCerchio and his father. Today, the ...
The 30 best film noir movies of all time, from Double Indemnity to Sunset Blvd, center on an idea: It can be really hard to live in America.
Film noir chronicles the stunted lives of losers and grifters; it is populated with disillusioned detectives and bitter, damaged loners.
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 ...
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 wee… ...
Learn about the key character archetypes and sub-types, with examples from film and TV.