European cinema helped to produce much of summer noir’s lexicon of themes, settings, and archetypes: Its fascination with the ...

Designer Ann Beyersdorfer discusses creating the set for Murder for Two at STAGES St. Louis, balancing quick character ...

The Big Combo is a 1955 noir film directed by Joseph H. Lewis, and starring Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, and Jean Wallace. It follows Police Lieutenant Leonard Diamond (Wilde), who for months has ...

Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, let’s revisit the 1955 noir The Big Combo for its 70th anniversary, which features an intriguing pair ...

UK-based singer Qymira and US-based, Indonesian-born actor Yoshi Sudarso are heading the cast of action noir Shadow Transit, shooting in Manila & HK. Skip to main content Open Mega Menu ...

Keywords: film lighting, character lighting, figure lighting, human face, subliminal emotions, electroencephalography (EEG), event-related potentials (ERP), early posterior negativity (EPN) Citation: ...

The neo-noir movement, which includes movies like Chinatown (1974), Blade Runner (1982), and Drive (2011), was a continuation of film noir. While these movies were no longer reacting to the specific ...

Double-crosses, deep-rooted cynicism, tangled plots and flashbacks are all classic traits of American crime melodrama from the 1940s and ‘50s. However, it’s the unflattering camera angles, deep ...

Two Humphrey Bogart classics, “The Maltese Falcon” and “The Big Sleep,” open the two-month festival at the Palo Alto movie palace.