Born from post-war paranoia and hardboiled crime stories, directors like John Huston, Sam Fuller, Billy Wilder, and Orson ...

Debra Granik broke ground, making “Winter’s Bone.” This picture combines a noir feel with an astonishing and effective naturalism that has the distinctive feel of fine documentary filmmaking. It’s no ...

Long before Rian Johnson's Benoit Blanc made headlines, a high-school guy with a bruised lip and an active detective's brain ...

Seventy years old this year, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Les Diaboliques is a masterclass in macabre dread – and inspired ...

Before Rian Johnson reinvigorated the crime mystery genre with movies like Knives Out and Glass Onion, and television series ...

A passion project from co-writer and star Ariella Mastroianni, "Gazer" is a grungy neo-noir thriller featuring an unreliable narrator and a distinctive '70s-inspired style.

Sydney Bucksbaum Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) didn't want to be a hero. She didn't wake up one morning determined to ...

Donor-Advised Funds Support KQED by using your donor-advised fund to make a charitable gift. Film noir is the perfect movie genre for this time of year. So long as there’s a chill in the air and the ...

Learn how to deeply engage with, understand and produce moving images. Challenge yourself to think historically, theoretically, and analytically about a wide range of audiovisual media, including ...

Here are our picks for this weekend. David Lynch poses for photographers in 2002 before the opening ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival in France. The late-great David Lynch’s twisty tale of ...

(Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) For over a century, the formula for cinema magic remained the same: a trained projectionist, a 35-millimeter film reel and a projector. But now, thousands of feet of celluloid ...