Timeless classics like The Killers, Shadow of a Doubt and The Maltese Falcon are the perfect films for beginners to dip their ...

Classic film noir is a key part of the history of Hollywood, and it is one of the most notable postwar genres. However, the noir sensibility would prove to be even more enduring, and from the ...

Classic film noir just never gets old. With brooding voice-overs, cynical murders, high contract lighting, and drop-dead, beautiful dames, these stylized crime movies were the dominant art form ...

Thank heaven for the ecumenical definition of film noir used by the editors the fourth and fattest edition of The Film Noir Encyclopedia. The compendium is venerable—30 years and counting—but the ...

Some movies are transformed through repetition into ritual to acquire new meanings which their creators may not have intended. We never see the same film twice because we bring a different state ...

Following World War II in the 1940s, an onslaught of crime movies came out of Hollywood as moody stories were on the minds of filmmakers and audiences, popularizing the noir genre. Often in black ...