The minds behind the company’s ‘Noir,’ including Duncan Sheik, talk about why the movie genre can easily become a live ...

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 ...

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 ...

Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, and The Third Man are all among the absolute greatest and most timeless classic film noir ...

In the 1940s and 1950s, film noir became arguably Hollywood's most popular film genre, with crime dramas and thrillers adding darkness to the already popular gangster genre. While gangster movies were ...

Screenwriter Scott Frank emerged as a master of snappy banter in the ’90s when he adapted crime novelist Elmore Leonard’s witty stories “Get Shorty” and “Out of Sight.” So it seemed only natural that ...

Few films are as striking to look at or listen to as the British film noir “The Third Man.” Its shadow-soaked black-and-white palette, artfully askew camera angles and elaborately expressive editing ...

Surfside Playhouse presents a comedic parody of film noir tropes, "The Chocolate Pigeon Caper." The play follows a detective and the ghost of his partner as they search for a chocolate pigeon with ...

From "Sunset Boulevard" to "The Reckless Moment" to "Leave Her to Heaven," the best film noir movies of all time are visions of a universally known truth, but one not always spoken out loud: It can be ...