Besides a troubled protagonist, noir Westerns are more cynical and dark, presenting a convoluted plot and a bloody solution ...

The film noir genre reached its peak of popularity during the 1940s with classics such as The Maltese Falcon, Laura, and Double Indemnity. Even though the 1940s are considered to be the height of the ...

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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 ...

Producers Bruce Hendricks and Galen Walker have optioned the rights to Stanley Kubrick’s “Lunatic at Large,” one of three unmade Kubrick screenplays discovered in the film director’s library after his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The desert will again be a hotbed of deceit and larceny in luxurious black-and-white as the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival returns to Palm Springs this Thursday through Sunday, with the ...

Marked by stark visual contrasts, chiaroscuro lighting, and sharp angles pioneered in German expressionism, noir plunges the viewer into morally gray situations in which good may triumph, but at a ...