Film Noir

A Look at Vera Caspary's 'Laura' (1943)

M.J. Rose | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Crime Fiction, Film Noir, Thrillers, Crime Thrillers, Books, Fiction, Thriller, Classic Movies, Movies, Laura, Vera Caspary, Books News

Vera Caspary wrote thrillers -- but not like any other author of her time, male or female. Her specialty was a specific type that she pioneered -- the psycho thriller.

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Movie Review: Elena

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Movie Reviews, Film Noir, Elena Movie Review, Russia, Marshall Fine Movie Reviews, Movies, Elena, Entertainment News

Though billed as a Russian film noir, Elena skimps on the noir, and more's the pity. Instead, it's a disciplined, controlled and ultimately disappointing drama of family tension and murder.

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11 Ideas That Changed Film

Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Film Noir, Dubbing, Video, Movie History, Movie Magic, Special Effects, Slideexpand, Movies, Ideas That Changed Film, Film History, Books News

Color. Sound. Multiplexes. Artificial Lighting. The ever-changing history of film is a story of the intersection between culture and technology from t...

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Screen Siren Peggy Cummins Returns to Hollywood for TCM Fest

Debra Levine | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Film Noir, Gun Crazy, TCM Fest, John Dall, Peggy Cummins, Turner Classic Movies Classic Film Festival 2012, Video, Arts News

Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo's pulpy film noir Gun Crazy concerns a couple of newly weds; played by John Dall and Peggy Cummins, they're just doin' what newly weds do. They're livin', lovin', and workin'... and they're shootin'.

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The Perfect Noir: Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity

Network Awesome | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Billy Wilder, Classic Hollywood, Film Noir, Raymond Chandler, Hollywood, Billy Wilder Films, Double Indemnity, Double Indemnity Movie, Video, Entertainment News

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Movie Review: Thin Ice

Marshall Fine | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Jill Sprecher, Movie Reviews, Fargo, Film Noir, Billy Crudup, Alan Arkin, Lea Thompson, Greg Kinnear, Thin Ice Movie Review, Coen Brothers, Thin Ice, Movies, Clockwatchers, Entertainment News

Almost 20 years later, there has yet to be a film noir that out-Fargos the Coen brothers' Fargo. Jill Sprecher's Thin Ice takes a run at it.

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Dashiell Hammett at Film Noir Festival

Thomas Gladysz | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Book News, Film Noir, Dashiell Hammett, San Francisco Around Town, San Francisco, Movie News, Books, Movies, Film Noir Festival, The Maltese Falcon, Video, San Francisco News

The Film Noir Festival currently underway at the Castro Theater in San Francisco concludes Sunday with a tribute to Dashiell Hammett, the author of The Maltese Falcon and other classic works of detective and crime fiction.

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PHOTOS: Murder And Crime In 1940s New York

The Huffington Post | Christopher Mathias | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Film Noir, Slideadbigshot, New-York-Tabloids, New-York-City-Photography, Weegee Murder Is My Business, New York Around Town, NY Around Town, International Center for Photography, Arthur Felig, Exposure, Weegee, New York News

Arthur Felig, AKA Weegee (a bastardization of Ouija, as in the board--a pseudonym chosen for his almost clairvoyant ability to arrive at crime scenes ...

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25 Overlooked Political Books Of 2011

Anis Shivani | Posted 08.08.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Political Books, Auto Industry, Iraq War, Energy Crisis, Immigration, Green Energy, University Presses, Citizenship, Film Noir, Independent Publishing, Urban Policy, American Imperialism, Princeton University Press, Yale University Press, Multiculturalism, Books News

Can Detroit be saved? What are the myths of green energy? What can we learn from the boggled reconstruction of Iraq? Are we going to share a future of biometric surveillance? Just how did white middle-class Americans start identifying themselves as outsiders?

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Your Weekend To-Do List: Wine Tastings, Free Yoga & A Pillow Fight

The Huffington Post | Nicole Larson | Posted 06.01.2011

Read More: Film Noir, Hyaena Gallery, Chakra 5, Bakesale for Japan, Winning, International Pillow Fight Day, The Grilled Cheese Truck, La Around Town, LA Events, Palate Food and Wine, Eva Restaurant, Slidepollajax, Pershing Square, Los Angeles News

This weekend's to do list has a little something for everybody, from a giant pillow fight in Pershing Square to a double feature celebrating film noir...

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Three Underappreciated Silent Film Classics

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paul Leni, Rafael Sabatini, George C. Tilyou, Film Noir, Eleanor Boardman, Swashbuckler, San Francisco Silent Film Festival, Mighty Wurlitzer, Sunset Boulevard, King Vidor, Billy Wilder, Gloria Swanson, Clark Wilson, Kilruddery Silent Film Festival, John Wayne, Conrad Veidt, Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, Steeplechase Park, Victor Hugo, Maurice Ravel, Dennis James, The Man Who Laughs, Norma Desmond, A Cottage on Dartmoor, Coney Island, Stephen Horne, Anthony Asquith, Wall-E, John Gilbert, Castro Theater, The Magnificent, Bardelys Film, Arts News

The Bay Area has a large and loyal base of silent film fans, many of whom will descend on the Castro Theatre this weekend for the San Francisco Silent Film Festival's annual winter event.

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Starz Film Fest Insider's Guide: La Pantera Negra

Angora Holly Polo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Film Noir, La Pantera Negra, The Donnybrook Writing Academy, Starz Denver Film Festival, Denver News

It's nearly impossible for a film with this many off-the-wall elements to not lose its way from time to time, but the journey from the simple request by God to the life-or-death necessity to find La Pantera Negra is a fun festival ride.

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ReThink Interview: Alex Gibney

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corruption, Lawrence of Arabia, Film Noir, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, Escort Service, Jonathan Kim, Wall Street, Rethink Interview, Alex Gibney, Rethink Reviews, Documentary, Spitzer Escort, Ashley Alexandra Dupre, Eliot Spitzer, Ashley Dupre, Entertainment News

It's safe to say that Alex Gibney is easily among the five best documentary filmmakers in America, if not the world, with Michael Moore and Errol Morr...

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Does LowBrow Art Follow in Comic Art Propaganda Footsteps?

Mat Gleason | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Comic Books, Film Noir, Art, Lowbrow Art, Propaganda, Christianity, Contemporary Art, War on Drugs, Gothic, Book Review, Arts News

If one art form has the power to seduce, shame or otherwise influence us into behaving a certain way, what does that say about art in general?

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The Disappearance of Alice Creed

Ed Koch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Film Noir, Eddie Marsan, Maltese Falcon, Martin Compston, Gemma Arteton, Mayor Koch, Thomas Farley, The Third Man, Aj Abucay, Mayor at the Movies, New York Insider Productions, The Disappearance of Alice Creed, Entertainment News

When I went to see this film, there were only about ten people in the theater. I liked it anyway. If you're a fan of film noir, I urge you to go. Th...

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Silent Snow, Savage Snow: Nightfall

Kim Morgan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jacques Tourneur, Anne Bancroft, Film Noir, Brian Keith, Kim Morgan, Rudy Bond, Aldo Ray, Entertainment News

With last week's release of Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics, Vol. 2 (Human Desire, The Brothers Rico, Nightfall, City of Fear and Pushover), ...

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Film Noir Honey Lizabeth Scott at the Academy

Debra Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barbara Stanwyck, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Film Noir, Kirk Douglas, Lizabeth Scott, Arts News

Monday's edition of the Academy's first-rate full-summer film series, "1940s Writing Nominees from Hollywood's Dark Side," enjoyed the tremendous pleasure of a guest appearance by actress Lizabeth Scott.

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Mighty Movie Podcast Interviews: The Square and The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet's Struggle for Freedom

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Justice, Repression, Australia, Murder, Emotion, Sex, Drama, Suspense, Controversy, Tibet, Pacifism, Politics, Debut Feature, Off Beat, Tibet Protests, Freedom, Buddhism, China Tibet, Violence, The Square, International Politics, Film Noir, Dalai Lama, Activism, Death, Indie, China Human Rights, Independence, Religion, Nash Edgerton, Racism, Gritty, Religion and Politics, Documentary, The Sun Behind the Clouds, China, Entertainment News

First up is an interview with Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam, the married directors of The Sun Behind the Clouds, a documentary about Tibet's struggle for independence.

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Lust & Larceny, Primeval Love, & Our Thirsty World: Your Weekend-To-Do List

Posted 05.25.2011

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Movie Review: The Square

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Australia, Film Noir, Nash Edgerton, Spider, Joel Edgerton, Marshall Fine Movie Review, The Square Movie Review, Entertainment News

Director Nash Edgerton, working from a script by his brother Joel, understands that when you're putting a puzzle together, some of the pieces have rounded corners -- but a lot of them have sharp edges that draw blood.

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Sun & Sin, John & Julie: Palm Noir

Kim Morgan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Film Noir, Foster Hirsch, He Ran All the Way, Arthur Lyons, Eddie Muller, John Garfield, Julie Garfield, Kim Morgan, Alan K. Rode, Entertainment News

The Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival has ended. The festival broke records this year with audiences soaking in all of that sun and sin, light and vice, early mornings and existential angst. Murder among the palm trees was actually, quite perfect.

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Film Noir, at Its Noirest

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

There are plenty of films out there that make us hopeful about life and living. Film noir is a guilty pleasure where we witness the denizens of society's bottom rungs stamping on each other's feet for a higher, safer position.

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Shutter Island Paradise

Sam Wasson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Aviator, Film Noir, Vertigo, Shutter Island, Martin Scorsese, After Hours, Horror, Alfred Hitchcock, Bringing Out the Dead, The Age of Innocence, The Departed, Taxi Driver, Dennis Lehane, Cape Fear, Leonardo Dicaprio, Michael Haneke, Entertainment News

Shutter Island pushes our conception of Scorsese to the brink. It tests him, proving that he has what it takes to navigate through the film's several time frames and planes of consciousness.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Shutter Island Press Conference

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Film Noir, Ben Kingsley, Shutter Island, Martin Scorsese, Val Lewton, German Expressionism, Movies, Alfred Hitchcock, Jacques Tourneur, Horror Movies, Leonardo Dicaprio, Entertainment News

Shutter Island is Martin Scorsese's latest work, a dark exploration of the human psyche that has Leonardo DiCaprio investigating the disappearance of an inmate from a hospital for the criminally insane.

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Remembering Jean Simmons

Sam Wasson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Film Noir, David Lean, Laurence Olivier, Angel Face, Otto Preminger, Howard Hughes, Jean Simmons, Robert Mitchum, Vivien Leigh, Entertainment News

Remembering Jean Simmons, who died Friday, January 22, of lung cancer at 80, the first thing I thought of is her performance in Angel Face.

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