In this 1952 film noir thriller, Joan Crawford plays a successful playwright seduced by a murderous Jack Palance. “It’s a masterpiece of suspense,” says Foster Hirsch, author of Hollywood and the ...

Film noir is one of the most popular film genres that initially gained notoriety in the United States during the 1930s as a result of the rise in pulp fiction and detective novels. Known for its black ...

Presented by the Music Box and the Film Noir Foundation, this week-long festival features 35-millimeter prints of film noir classics and rarities, showing as double features at the Music Box Theatre, ...

If you’re a devotee of film noir, and you should be, you likely think of it as a dark-end-of-the-street, distinctly American film style that was unaccountably given a Gallic-sounding name — born when ...

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 ...