Perhaps the best Alfred Hitchcock thriller Hitch never made is Louis Malle's 1958 gem, "Elevator to the Gallows." With so many twists and turns, watching it is like a theme park ride gone awry. Like ...

The doomed, dame-loving, fast-talking gumshoe has never seen such sunny days. In a seemingly never-ending parade of DVD releases, film noir classics (along with the not-so-classic) are flowing from ...

If you’re a fan of classic films, particularly the ones about gumshoes and femmes fatales, you’ll be glad to know that Noir Nights are returning to New Bedford Art Museum. Following last year’s ...

Even though the first color movies were made over 100 years ago, black & white lived on in Hollywood until the 1960s. The Academy Awards even had a category from 1939 to 1967 under Best Cinematography ...

If you’re a devotee of film noir, and you should be, you likely think of it as a dark-end-of-the-street, distinctly American film style that was unaccountably given a Gallic-sounding name — born when ...

Film Noir is a universe based around mystery, the femme fatale, and the detective. Sex, lies and murder is the seductive tone that created the visually stimulating art form of cinema that began in the ...

Orson Welles directs and co-stars as a brutal, washed-up police captain in this late-period noir now considered one of the best by the man behind Citizen Kane. Lavine calls it "a colossal film that ...