Daniel is a University of Louisville graduate with an English degree, a sizable collection of Blu-rays, books, records, and a love of hiking. Modern crime movies have taken a lot of inspiration from ...

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 ...

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 the 1960s, the neo-noir genre arrived as an extension of the classic film noir but with its own additional qualities, such as excessive violence, sexuality, and psychological elements, which ...

Though he became a well-regarded director starting in the 1970s, and a movie star around the middle of the 1960s, Clint ...

'Body and Soul,' 'Shadow of a Doubt' and 'Dead Reckoning' are among a dozen classic or obscure films programmed over a four-day weekend at the Palm Springs Cultural Center. Like the Hollywood-based ...