A great thriller, The Third Mancapped off the noir boom of the 1940s with a stellar cast, intense storyline and resonant ...

Noirvember isn’t on any list of official holidays, but the informal, social-media-driven movement where cinephiles watch and ...

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The phrase “film noir” often calls to mind ... woman he loves in a shadow-swarmed city in the 1940s. However, in reality, a great film noir movie is anything that tells an intriguing story ...

Before there was film noir, films like Dead End or You Only Live Once ushered in the genre, and we rank the best of these ...

Errico writes about the summits and shoals of a performer’s life as she embarks on her ongoing “Sondheim in The City” tour.

This shift supported the emerging “semidocumentary” style in noir cinema, which combined shadowed cinematography, morally ...

We talk about noir plotting and tropes, but in fact it drew liberally from the gangster pics of the Depression/Prohibition era, crime procedurals, heist movies, horror films (again, the German ...

Every November at the Brattle Theatre and the Coolidge Corner Theatre, it’s a month of blind alleys, blonde bombshells and ...

The term "noir," which means "black" or "dark" in French, was coined by French critics in the 1940s to describe a wave of American films that, although unconnected in terms of production, shared a ...