Film noir is defined by its dark themes, but the endings of these 10 classics of the genre were shockingly bleak even by the ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 character frequently references movies like “The Big Heat” — his handler Ruby (Kirby) gets him the gun Glenn Ford used in the 1950s noir — as well as several Humphrey Bogart films.

Double Indemnity (1944). Why it’s essential: Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity isn’t just a noir classic—it is the blueprint.Adapted from James M. Cain’s pulp novella and co-written by legendary crime ...

An indie film noir whose grungy low-fi aesthetics complement its classic fatalism, Gazer (April 4, in theaters) tells a twisted tale stitched together from bits and pieces of Rear Window, Memento ...

But “His Kind of Woman” should be a welcome surprise for Price aficionados, noir buffs, and anyone who, in the Marie Kondo meme sense, loves mess. —SS The Aftermath: Only Midnights Could ...

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.