The director wasted no time cementing his style with his debut feature film, They Live by Night, a gritty and punishing noir ...

Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend, which was released 60 years ago, is still one of the most important films about addiction ever made.

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 ...

Despite the German Expressionist influence on the genre, the roots of film noir are undoubtedly American — a morally introspective and nationally cynical mirror to the traditional western. As a whole, ...

“If you haven’t got enough brains to agree with me, then keep your mouth shut. From here on in, I’m answering the questions, got it?” —Claire Quimby, Tension (1949) They say a woman’s work is never ...

Welsh-born Ray Milland (born Alfred Reginald Jones) was indeed dashing in the tradition of gentleman heroes that Ronald Colman exemplified and that actors of Milland’s generation sought to emulate.

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 ...

As always, the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in Palm Springs — taking place this Thursday through Sunday — will focus on movies from the primary noir era of the ’40s and ’50s, including a handful of ...

Who doesn't love a movie with a little intrigue and cynicism — and a lot of shadiness and moral ambiguity? How about a whole Palm Springs film festival dedicated to just that, and then some? The ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week’s best and worst from Kim Strassel, Allysia Finley and Kyle Peterson. Photo: Jenny Kane/AP/Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP/Jon Elswick/AP When you watch ...