Seattle has long embraced the shadowy lure of film noir. Not exactly a genre, film noir has been described as a style, an attitude, a movement, even an era of Hollywood filmmaking. It’s a particular ...

Between January and October this year, the Film Noir Foundation programmed and presented its annual series of Noir City film festivals in several US cities: Oakland, Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia, Los ...

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 Film Noir Foundation’s Noir City Festival is back, and Boston’s got it. From June 9 to 11, you can take in 11 movies, all celebrating their 75th anniversaries. It’s a bitter little world over at ...

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 ...

Noir City Detroit returns for its sixth year to Detroit’s iconic Redford Theatre with a focus on films from 1948 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the gritty, black-and-white movies.

Mike Hammer is one of the most popular film noir detectives in history, and he has been adapted into several films and a popular TV show starring Stacy Keach. Arguably, the best movie featuring the ...

Ready to dive into the dark, twisted world of film noir? Check out the 20 best films, plus where to grab the sharpest Blu-ray, 4K, and box sets. Let’s talk about film noir—the genre that slinks out of ...

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 ...

Experts say the genre was all about suspense, and what better way to convey that to audiences than an obsession with time? By David Belcher The race against the clock — to solve a crime, to outwit a ...

Turner Classic Movie's host, Eddie Muller, is the ultimate connoisseur of the film noir genre and the host of the channel's popular segment, Noir Alley. Every Saturday night and Sunday morning, fans ...