BEHIND-THE-SCENES: Classic Hollywood. Several of those actors are featured in the American Cinematheque’s Noir City: Hollywood, 15th Annual Festival of Film Noir, which begins April 5 at the ...

Gritty film noir just may be embraced by contemporary audiences more than any other genre from the Golden Age of Hollywood. And for good reason. “I think it’s because the old film noirs have ...

Film noir is defined by its dark themes, but the endings of these 10 classics of the genre were shockingly bleak even by the ...

Noir City, the annual festival of film noir at the Castro Theatre and a heavyweight of the local rep scene, picks up on Jan. 25 where last year’s edition left off—the 1950s.Beginning with Trapped and ...

The Noir era was over when the Hays Production Code (Hollywood's self-imposed system of film censorship) finally collapsed. But Noir did so many great things in a kind of friction or dialectic ...

One of the best recent efforts devoted to getting more of these niche films seen by wider audiences has been undertaken by Kino Lorber and their Dark Side of Cinema series. Now in its fourth edition, ...

There have been multiple film waves and movements throughout the medium's history, and during the Classical Hollywood Era, there was perhaps no wave more intriguing than film noir. What started ...

During the past several years, film noir has become the preferred genre in movie publishing and DVD releases. I count well over 50 volumes on the subject, a number that indicates the diminishing ...

Sunshine and noir are antithetical, as probably anyone who knows even a word of French could tell you. Sunshine and film noir, nearly as much so. Yet summer’s here and the time is right for ...

Film Noir Festival at Hollywood Legion Theater Looks to Make July a Little More Shadowy Alan K. Rode will be joined by fellow Film Noir Foundation leader Eddie Muller for three days of classics ...

Any time is a good time to talk about film noir. But right now Noir City Hollywood is running at the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles, and TCM Noir Alley host Eddie Muller just revised his "Dark ...

Film noir remains one of the most enduringly popular genres, and many of those from the classic Hollywood era are rightly regarded as classics. It’s easy to see why this would be the case, as ...