When he died by suicide, aged 39, it was his third attempt. Poonam Saxena revisits the exquisite cinema, unfading legacy, ...

A year-by-year "what if" filling in a century-long gap of Academy Awards recognition for noteworthy stunt artistry and design in Hollywood movies.

“The first two Shrek movies are the ... The psychological thriller film noir was produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, with a screenplay by Raymond Chandler and Czenzi Ormonde based on the 1950 ...

Ahead of his centenary on 1 July, we remember Farley Granger’s achingly tragic performance in his first starring role: as one of the fugitive lovers in Nicholas Ray’s directorial debut, They Live by ...

One of the most acclaimed directors of all time, Kurosawa made films that crossed cultural barriers to reveal universal ...

The classical period of film noir took place in the 1940s and 1950s. For the purpose of this article, only films from this era will be included. From classic noir films like Billy Wilder’s Double ...

Let’s talk about film noir —the genre that slinks out of the shadows, drags you into a smoke-filled room, and makes you like it. Since Double Indemnity set the gold standard for bad decisions and ...

In case you are not familiar with film noir, the term was coined by French film critics to describe a style of cinema rooted in hard-boiled crime fiction — think Raymond Chandler, Dashiell ...

Why it is one of the best film noir movies: One of the most beautifully executed examples of the classic “girl meets boy, girl convinces boy to kill her spouse” film noir set-up comes from The ...

By Randy Myers Bay City News Shadow and fog will figuratively roll into Oakland's Grand Lake Theatre this week and next during the 22nd Noir City film festival running Jan. 24 through Feb. 2.

The neo-noir movement, which includes movies like Chinatown (1974), Blade Runner (1982), and Drive (2011), was a continuation of film noir. While these movies were no longer reacting to the specific ...

The film that is now considered to have kicked off the genre is John Huston’s 1941 detective procedural, The Maltese Falcon. Based on Dashiell Hammett’s novel of the same name, it features Humphrey ...