Smoking is a black-and-white thing. I don’t mean that you either smoke or you don’t. I mean it goes with film noir, which ...

Victim is a 1961 British film noir that is not only a highly regarded film, but was also important in helping to change ...

The phrase “film noir” often calls to mind the image of a fedora-clad sleuth investigating a perplexing crime that may or may not involve the woman he loves in a shadow-swarmed city in the 1940s.

“Time and film noir go together like ham and eggs,” said Alan Rode, an author and a director of the Film Noir Foundation, which sponsors Noir City, a continuing series of film festivals that ...

The Motion Picture Association of America, the industry group that issues ratings and parental guidance for U.S. films, added smoking scenes as a factor in ratings two years ago, but Fielding said ...

Classic film noir is a key part of the history of Hollywood, and it is one of the most notable postwar genres. However, the noir sensibility would prove to be even more enduring, and from the ...

Westlake — based on the novel by Jim Thompson — and directed by Stephen Frears, the neo-noir thriller starred Anjelica ... Frears smartly films them in similar close-ups — smoking cigarettes and ...

The films are set in the 1940s through the 1960s, and their themes are as relevant today as they were decades ago. They include two movies ("Inferno" and "Man in the Dark") in 3D. Noir stars like ...