Modern crime movies have taken a lot of inspiration from film noir. Many of the great noirs of the '30s and '40s are still regarded among the greatest crime movies ever made, and have influenced ...

For several decades, the film noir genre has withstood the hands of time and was initially popularized by classics such as The Maltese Falcon, Out of the Past, and Double Indemnity. By the 1960s, the ...

A field of black is interrupted by a wavering pinprick of light. A grainy, seen-it-all voice begins its recitation. “Remembering out of black silence. You were born in pain.” We hear a woman shrieking ...

Billy Wilder began and ended his Hollywood career creating comedies—writing for Ernst Lubitsch in the 1930s, and making films like “Some Like It Hot” (1959), “The Apartment” (1960) and “One, Two, ...

In 1972, filmmaker Paul Schrader famously declared Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil to be film noir’s “epitaph.” The 1958 film is now generally considered the last true noir and a way to mark the period ...

The remake will be set in 1978 Detroit and tell the story of a Vietnam vet turned contract killer who goes on the run after ...