On the other hand, Film Noir is concerned with private ... and spaces cut and splintered by oppressive, unrealistic shadows. Films noir leads, to borrow Paul Schrader’s definition, can fall ...

Born from post-war paranoia and hardboiled crime stories, directors like John Huston, Sam Fuller, Billy Wilder, and Orson Welles shaped the genre, using shadows, smoke, and sharp dialogue to show us ...

Film noir ranks as one of the ... this list includes the definitive list of noir titles, including Burt Lancaster's The Killers, Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, and Humphrey Bogart's The ...