Film noir is a classic genre in cinema that has produced a handful of the greatest movies ever made and these are the best of ...

Originating in the 1940s, French critics coined the term “film noir” (meaning “black film”) to describe those moody, shadow-filled crime thrillers where the good guys and bad guys blend together in a ...

Film noir is filled with great lines, and certain quotes from movies like Chinatown and The Big Sleep completely define what ...

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 ...

The phrase “film noir” often calls to mind the image of a fedora-clad sleuth investigating a perplexing crime that may or may not involve the woman he loves in a shadow-swarmed city in the 1940s.

Crime films that feature entertaining heists ... Directed by Roman Polanski, Chinatown pays homage to and takes elements from classic noir films, but isn’t afraid to elevate the genre by ...

The glitz, glamour and grunge of film noir is returning to the Empress Theatre in Vallejo this Saturday with a film showing ...

Other highlights include a Sherlock Holmes film from 1944 that Rode considers a noir, “The Scarlet Claw”; “Crime Wave,” the second de Toth-directed film on the menu for the weekend ...