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 worth of ...

In this 1952 film noir thriller, Joan Crawford plays a successful playwright seduced by a murderous Jack Palance. “It’s a masterpiece of suspense,” says Foster Hirsch, author of Hollywood and the ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ SRO film noir series is ...

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 a genre that thrived in the mid-20th century, and is renowned for its gritty style, complicated characters, and dark themes. Eddie Muller, host on Turner Classic Movies and a leading ...

Whether it’s the hardboiled private eye down on his luck or the beautiful but badhearted femme fatale, neo-noir tropes revive the era of film noir. But what exactly is neo-noir, and how does it both ...

For Noir City’s 21st iteration, festival founder Eddie Muller of San Francisco came up with a novel approach to entice fans to Oakland’s Grand Lake Theatre: curating double bills that pair English ...

Experts say the genre was all about suspense, and what better way to convey that to audiences than an obsession with time? By David Belcher The race against the clock — to solve a crime, to outwit a ...

If you’re a devotee of film noir, and you should be, you likely think of it as a dark-end-of-the-street, distinctly American film style that was unaccountably given a Gallic-sounding name — born when ...

Shadow and fog will figuratively roll into Oakland's Grand Lake Theatre this week and next during the 22nd Noir City film festival running Jan. 24 through Feb. 2. Alameda's Eddie Muller -- host of ...

Presented by the Music Box and the Film Noir Foundation, this week-long festival features 35-millimeter prints of film noir classics and rarities, showing as double features at the Music Box Theatre, ...