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Film Noir

Peggy Cummins Honored at San Francisco's Noir City Film Festival

Sean Martinfield | Posted 03.31.2013 | Entertainment
Sean Martinfield

Film Noir resonates with a contemporary audience in a way that other film genres do not. It is the style. We see the roots of our contemporary society in these films. It's the point where we started to loose our innocence as a culture.

Santa Jones

Michael Kupperman | Posted 02.11.2013 | Comedy
Michael Kupperman

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LACMA's Trifecta of Exhibitions: Noir, Crime and Sin

Tracey Harnish | Posted 02.05.2013 | Arts
Tracey Harnish

A trifecta of cinema-inspired exhibitions is now playing at LACMA. Now showing: a post-renaissance painter, an iconic film director and a pop art master.

Emma Diab

Film Noir: The Slow Motion Evolution

HuffingtonPost.com | Emma Diab | Posted 11.26.2012 | Arts

Looper is already being touted by critics as one of the smartest films of 2012. While the sci-fi action flick starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Br...

7 Classic Femme Fatales

Charles Ardai | Posted 11.13.2012 | Books
Charles Ardai

Hollywood didn't create the femme fatale, though it certainly made her known to millions, starting with the original "vamp," Theda Bara, back in the silent-movie days, and progressing right through the film noir era to deadly modern seductresses like Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct.

Blade Runner Turns 30: Reflections on the Near Future

Russell C. Smith | Posted 08.27.2012 | Arts
Russell C. Smith

The sci-fi movie masterpiece Blade Runner turns 30 this month, and it's still ahead of where we are culturally.

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

M.J. Rose | Posted 07.31.2012 | Books
M.J. Rose

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.

Movie Review: Elena

Marshall Fine | Posted 07.18.2012 | Entertainment
Marshall Fine

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.

11 Ideas That Changed Film

Posted 05.11.2012 | Books

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

Screen Siren Peggy Cummins Returns to Hollywood for TCM Fest

Debra Levine | Posted 06.23.2012 | Arts
Debra Levine

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'.

The Perfect Noir: Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity

Network Awesome | Posted 04.29.2012 | Entertainment
Network Awesome

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Movie Review: Thin Ice

Marshall Fine | Posted 04.18.2012 | Entertainment
Marshall Fine

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.

Dashiell Hammett at Film Noir Festival

Thomas Gladysz | Posted 03.26.2012 | San Francisco
Thomas Gladysz

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.

PHOTOS: Murder And Crime In 1940s New York

The Huffington Post | Christopher Mathias | Posted 01.03.2012 | New York

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 ...

PHOTOS: Marlene's Androgynous Style

The Huffington Post | Jada Wong | Posted 10.11.2012 | Style

Although the menswear trend has been popular for several years, Marlene Dietrich was actually among the first to pioneer the androgynous style. Top ha...

25 Overlooked Political Books Of 2011

Anis Shivani | Posted 08.08.2011 | Books
Anis Shivani

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?

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

The Huffington Post | Nicole Larson | Posted 06.01.2011 | Los Angeles

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...

Three Underappreciated Silent Film Classics

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
George Heymont

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.

Starz Film Fest Insider's Guide: La Pantera Negra

Angora Holly Polo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Angora Holly Polo

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.

ReThink Interview: Alex Gibney

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Jonathan Kim

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...

Does LowBrow Art Follow in Comic Art Propaganda Footsteps?

Mat Gleason | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Mat Gleason

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?

The Disappearance of Alice Creed

Ed Koch | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Ed Koch

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...

Silent Snow, Savage Snow: Nightfall

Kim Morgan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Kim Morgan

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

Film Noir Honey Lizabeth Scott at the Academy

Debra Levine | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Debra Levine

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.

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

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Dan Persons

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.