"While the City Sleeps" and "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt" make a perfect double feature, not least because they have so much in common. Both are noirs released by RKO in 1956 starring Dana Andrews and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

Several new DVDs and videos have a distinct international flavor, showcasing films from France, Russia and even Iceland. New on DVD from Criterion is French director Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1956 ...

In theory, digging into the RKO archives for remake possibilities is a fine idea, but this redo of Fritz Lang's 1956 film noir is no improvement on a potboiler that was no great shakes to begin with.

Docs program brings nearly a dozen features and shorts, The Brattle adds “Neo-Weirdo-Noir” to its Noirvember repertoire and we get area premieres of Radu Jude’s wild “Dracula” and Ira Sachs“Peter ...

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 ...

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 ...