The Final Five Who among committed classic film bloggers could possibly resist the chance to join a blogathon honoring National Classi...

Sketch for Mildred Pierce (1945) by Warner Bros. Art Director Anton Grot Don Malcolm, long-time festival programmer of film noir ...

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Bernard Herrmann , likely the most celebrated of classic era film composers today, who wrote the scores   for Citizen Kane, Vertigo, N...

Every December for the past several years the Film Noir Foundation has presented a one-night-only "Noir City Xmas" s...

  YULETIDE CURIOS FROM THE FILM DETECTIVE   This month, The Film Detective, a two-year-old streaming service that refreshes its...

Big, blustery George Bancroft was in his mid-40s when he became a film star, breaking out in 1927 with a linchpin performance as mob b...

I hadn’t seen Underworld before, but I knew enough about it to be intrigued. For starters, it was directed by...