Film noir is one of the most significant and influential genres in film history. It's characterized by morally corrupt characters, cynical storylines, tragic endings, and moody, atmospheric ...

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

La Crosse author Charles Pappas's "It's a Bitter Little World" is a dark, cynical and sassy compilation of the "smartest, toughest, nastiest quotes from film noir." Exploring sixty years of film ...

DETOUR IS AN ULTRA-LOW-BUDGET 1946 film noir that packs an undeniable punch. “He went searching for love,” the Detour poster said, “but fate forced a detour” — to accidental murder.

Paste magazine this month has selected the 100 best film noir movies of all time. It’s a good list, except for one thing: it’s overwhelming. Most people will skip to the Top 10, which offers ...

Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray in film noir classic 'Double Indemnity.' Eddie Muller likes his coffee the same way he likes his movies: unsweetened and dark. Muller, 64, the host of 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 ...

Presented by the Music Box and the Film Noir Foundation, the 13th annual festival spans a category-defying range of work, including a singular noir Western (“Blood on the Moon,” 1948, with ...

Yet noir, when it works, insulates its characters from the outside world, until circumstances dictate they bust loose. I wish the busting-loose part went further in “Love Lies Bleeding.” ...

Film noir was deeply un-American in what it said about freedom, individualism, capitalism, the nature of man (not to say woman), all the verities taught about the land of opportunity since 1776.

Film noir came out of the post-World War 2 Hollywood but wasn’t named as such until a bunch of high-falutin’ French critics noticed a pattern in all these hard-boiled tales of deceit, betrayal ...

There are two terrific film-noir series taking place in New York right now, one at Film Forum, “Femmes Noir,” the other, at the Museum of Modern Art, “Lady in the Dark: Crime Films from ...