Noir

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Review of Joseph Losey's 1951 noir "The Big Night" starring John (Drew) Barrymore Jr.

Perhaps Film Noir can be seen as a reference point for follow up discussions rather than a cut and dried type of movie genre.

Although the first part of the decade was filled with uncertainty and war the British film industry produced many great films and some great classic films. Here are ten films from the 1940's that are rated highly and great entertainment for film noir fans

With it's inventive technology and keen attention to the games time period; L.A. Noir is by far the best game so far this year.

Review of "The Turning Point" (1952) directed by William Dieterle that showed audiences something of criminal syndicate operation/corruption... and mayhem.

Hard-boiled hero, check. No-good dame, check. Night and fog, check. The best film noir follows a formula, but these unforgettable films went off script with singular variations on the theme.

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While this film wasn't shot in black-and-white, the director craftily portrays how a world becomes colorless when corrupt men take over.

Could Welles's 1947 film noir "The Lady from Shanghai" change your life? Probably not in the way "Citizen Kane" laid its influence upon movie history, but it does captivate.

Gala is forced to marry a Prince over the one she truly loves to lift a curse upon her city. Can she keep her city from turning to stone before her twenty-first birthday?

The second part of the 2011 film festival continued with more movies from the noir genre.

The first part of the 2011 San Francisco Film Noir Festival was held at the Castro Theatre. The focus of the 9th annual festival was on insanity.

Review of the influential and long-unavailable "Pepe le Moko" (1937), which I think was the first cinema noir.

Voluspa Maison Noir Black Figue and Cypre Candle smells fantastic in the jar, but does it burn off the same delightful scent? Find out in this review.

Review of the noir film directed by William Dieterle, "Dark City," which introduced Charlton Heston brooding and resentful to movie audiences in 1950.

Review of the movie "The Running Man" (1963) directed by Carol Reed with Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick, and Alan Bates

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