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.

I still cannot wrap my head around what this modern film noir classic is really about, but the fact that I cannot stop thinking about it convinces me it is a successful exercise in brain-teasing ...

Why would you want to watch the antisocial protagonists, victims, and antiheroes of film noir? “Despite an audience ... the qualities and demands of modern life.” He exists in an alternate ...

The theaters — located in Columbia Heights and Minneapolis, respectively — are about to kick off the 16th Film Noir Festival, ...

A great film is as rare as a flawless piece of jewellery, but Tierney completed at least five. The Forties and Fifties were her decades. Through her performances in noir masterpieces such as Laura ...

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 ...

Whether implicitly or explicitly, every film, to one degree or another, is influenced by the legendary Japanese director's work. Kurosawa's influence is evident in all modern classics, from ...