W hen it comes to classic cinema, the film noir genre ranks as one of the most fascinating and reached its peak during the ...

Crooked cops, daring heists, infidelity, murder—these are the elements that ignite the combustible chemistry of a fine noir film. But not all noir involves foggy cityscapes, smoking detectives ...

When the San Francisco Film Noir Festival began in 2003 with a lineup of San Francisco-shot films, one movie generated bigger buzz than all others. “The Maltese Falcon” and “Out of the Past ...

When his style was adapted to crime stories in the late 1920s and '30s, most successfully for writers such as Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Raymond Chandler, the seeds of noir were planted.

The 1942 classic noir, This Gun for Hire, is based on the 1936 novel A Gun for Sale written by Graham Greene and was the first film starring Ladd and Lake, who made seven films together for ...

We spoke to the Czar of Noir himself, Eddie Muller, about his revised and expanded book Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir. The post Eddie Muller on the Changing Landscape of Film Noir ...

The one and only print of the film was thought lost to a fire in 2008, but a fully restored version screens Friday as part the annual Noir City film festival, now in its seventh year at the Music Box.

A Woman, A Gun And A Noodle Shop. ... His 1990 film Ju Dou drew on James M. Cain’s ... While Noodle’s characters sometimes seem to make choices simply because they’re stuck in a noir, ...

Laura, 1944 (dir. Otto Preminger) 20th Century Fox. Adapted from the 1943 novel Laura by Vera Caspary, Otto Preminger’s iconic film noir stars Gene Tierney in the titular role as the beguiling ...

The 1942 thriller This Gun for Hire, which opened five months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, was closely adapted from Graham Greene’s 1936 novel A Gun for Sale by Albert Maltz and W.R.

Film Noir's 10 Most Dangerous Leading Ladies. While some people may decry current cinema for the domination of powerful male figures, women have a long history of commanding the screen with a ...