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 ...

From Bogart to De Niro, these iconic performances define the shadows, seduction, and moral decay of film noir.

Classic Hollywood has a somewhat unearned reputation for being easy, cheerful viewing, full of giddy musicals and sweet love stories. Film noir of the 1940s and ‘50s cut right through these ...

Cinematography is simply defined as the art of filmmaking, serving as the essential foundation of any great movie, but for some film genres, notably classic film noir, cinematography is a crucially ...

Marked by stark visual contrasts, chiaroscuro lighting, and sharp angles pioneered in German expressionism, noir plunges the viewer into morally gray situations in which good may triumph, but at a ...

Few films are as striking to look at or listen to as the British film noir “The Third Man.” Its shadow-soaked black-and-white palette, artfully askew camera angles and elaborately expressive editing ...

The Carpenter Center will turn into a sexy and romantic old-style Hollywood lounge as Tony Award-nominated singer Melissa Errico brings music inspired by noir films to the Long Beach stage during a ...

Filmmaking couple Ryan J. Sloan and Ariella Mastroianni co-write a low-budget noir, where he directs and she acts, with impressive results. This is the promising jumping-off point for a stylish ...

Growing up watching old gangster movies — particularly 1938’s “Angels with Dirty Faces,” starring Hollywood legends James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart and the 1948 Bogart vehicle “The Treasure of Sierra ...

Surfside Playhouse presents a comedic parody of film noir tropes, "The Chocolate Pigeon Caper." The play follows a detective and the ghost of his partner as they search for a chocolate pigeon with ...