Lucky number 13. Talk about a stroke of film noir fate! The 2023 edition of Noir City Chicago, the annual celebration of mean streets and what the French call “malchance,” gathers a week’s worth of ...
Starting in the 1940s, the classic film noir genre reached a significant peak with movie goers and was one of the most popular among American audiences. Like many of its contemporaries, classic film ...
Journal Editorial Report: The week’s best and worst from Kim Strassel, Allysia Finley and Kyle Peterson. Photo: Jenny Kane/AP/Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP/Jon Elswick/AP When you watch ...
Eddie Muller’s festival of classic film noir has been around for 20 years, touring through a dozen cities. It’s coming to the home of The Blob. Ann Sheridan in “Woman on the Run” (1950). (Courtesy of ...