When it comes to classic cinema, the film noir genre ranks as one of the most fascinating and reached its peak during the 1940s with the rise in pulp fiction and detective novels. Titles such as Gilda ...

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 ...

Anja Djuricic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1992. Her first interest in film started very early, as she learned to speak English by watching Disney animated movies (and many, many reruns). Anja ...

Screenwriter Scott Frank emerged as a master of snappy banter in the ’90s when he adapted crime novelist Elmore Leonard’s witty stories “Get Shorty” and “Out of Sight.” So it seemed only natural that ...

Guillermo del Toro's neo-noir 'Nightmare Alley' calls back to an age when the subversive "murder mellers," or off-kilter "celluloid dirt," faced sharp criticism from censors, critics and industry ...

Everyone loves a good mystery, and some of the best ones can be found in film noir classics such as Laura, Out of the Past, and Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train. Rooted in German Expressionism ...

Kimberly Truhler's upcoming book includes anecdotes such as the construction that went into Jean Louis black satin gown for Rita Hayworth in 1946’s 'Gilda' to Lana Turner's look in 'The Postman Always ...

For Noir City’s 21st iteration, festival founder Eddie Muller of San Francisco came up with a novel approach to entice fans to Oakland’s Grand Lake Theatre: curating double bills that pair English ...