came to Hollywood from Europe (as indicated by the very name “film noir,” first coined by French critic Nino Frank in 1946, let alone that shadowy cinematography lifted from 1920s German cinema).

Noir movies have captivated audiences since the silent era, with their dark, atmospheric settings and twisty plots. While the ...

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.

This shift supported the emerging “semidocumentary” style in noir cinema, which combined shadowed cinematography, morally ...

The term “film noir” was coined by French critic Nino ... One can almost smell the Mexican dust in Donald E. Thorin’s breezy ...

Cinematographer John Alton influenced the visual conventions of film noir through his artful use of light shadow and extreme darkness This short documentary explores his noir collaborations with ...

The film's atmospheric cinematography and realistic filming ... American cinema saw an increase in film noir and films of ...

From "Sunset Boulevard" to "The Reckless Moment" to "Leave Her to Heaven," the best film noir movies of all time are visions of a universally known truth, but one not always spoken out loud ...