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From iconic classics like The Third Man to neo-noirs like Chinatown, some of the best film noirs ever made are available to ...

The one and only print of the film was thought lost to a fire in 2008, but a fully restored version screens Friday as part the annual Noir City film festival, now in its seventh year at the Music Box.

Otto Preminger's 1944 film noir Laura, starring Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews, is an iconic, bold entry for the genre.

When girls are good they are very good, but when they are bad they are even better. And during the height of the film noir genre in the 1940s and ‘50s, some of the juiciest roles for women were ...

In general, film noir refers to those Hollywood films of the ’40s and early ’50s that portrayed the world of dark, slick city streets, crime and corruption. Film noir is an extremely unwieldy ...

Ralph Meeker was a tough guy who had some tough luck in Hollywood. Meeker won accolades for his performance in the 1953 Broadway production of Picnic, but when it came time for the movie, William ...

Good, bad, or otherwise, film noir tends to transport. The shadowy promise of deep melodrama paired with that high-contrast visual melancholy that’s ideal for the moralistic extremes of the ...

Before she even appears in the 1944 film noir classic Laura, Laura Hunt is an obsession for the hardboiled police detective, who is mesmerized with the supposedly dead woman through her portrait.

'Double Indemnity' is classic film noir: Men in fedoras walk mean streets shrouded in shadow and women are sometimes the sirens to beckon them to their doom. It's a film—and a genre—that endures.

Gambler Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) is rescued from a gunman by Ballin Mundson, the sinister boss of an Argentine casino, who later makes Johnny his right-hand man. Their association is based on a ...

There aren’t many films from the first half of the 20th century that depict the career working woman, but they existed in real life, many of them, and Vera Caspary was one. Born in Chicago in ...