It was only with her passing last month that I found out Dame Angela Lansbury had made a couple of low budget films noir during her long, st...

Eddie Muller's Original Noir Bible in a New Updated and Expanded Edition Eddie Muller Before he was film noir's czar and long bef...

...For the Vive la France Blogathon... In 1946 four relatively recent American films inspired Italian-born French film critic Nin...

San Francisco's Noir City is the first of several film noir festivals scheduled around the U.S. for 2018 The Film Noir Foundation...

SAN FRANCISCO'S 3RD FRENCH FILM NOIR FESTIVAL COMES TO THE ROXIE THEATER From Thursday, November 3, through Monday, November 7, San...

Robert Siodmak's The Killers (1946) screens April 17th at Noir City: Hollywood A presentation of the American Cinematheque and the...

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in The Big Sleep G uy Budziak is a woodcut artist whose striking high-contrast prints evoke ...

Woodcut print by Guy Budziak Coney Island's opened its first "freak show" in 1880, but the heyday of its sideshow attracti...

January 2013 brings, at last, the much-anticipated Noir City XI, San Francisco's 11 th annual film noir festival. Presented by the Fi...

Noir City X, San Francisco January was a busy, busy month in my reel and real lives this year, but I still managed to squeeze in one n...

A few weeks ago I took another look at Nicholas Ray’s noir classic In a Lonely Place (1950). As I watched, it began to rankle that th...

This review was part of the For the Love of Film: The Film Preservation Blogathon to benefit the Film Noir Foundation. One of the...

Stranger on the Third Floor So…I paid my 10 bucks to park in the lot adjacent to Sullivan’s Funeral Home on Market Street in San Franc...

Three films of legendary star to be screened at Noir City 9 Her childhood has been called Dickensian and the rags-to-riches trajector...

Released by Warner Home Video in 2010, Film Noir Classic Collection, Volume 5   is a four-disc showcase of eight double-featured films, a...

The ninth annual San Francisco film noir festival, Noir City 9, will run from Friday, January 21, through Sunday, January 30, at the hist...

The San Francisco Film Noir Foundation has set its first-ever Noir City Xmas  for Wed., December 15, at the Castro Theatre, and extends ...

by guest contributor Whistlingypsy The emergence of those stylistic elements in American films later termed noir by critics is often deba...