Film Noir News

SFU Continuing Studies professor Donald Brackett's fascination with cinema began in 1960 when he was 10 years old.

LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN . Gene Tierney, so innocent in the previous year's noir masterpiece Laura , does an about-face in director John M. Stahl's lurid yet luxurious adaptation of Ben Ames Williams' bestselling novel.

Since I recently saw the film-noir classic Sweet Smell of Success , I thought I'd read the BFI book version of Sweet Smell Of Success by critic James Naremore.

After accidentally knocking her best friend off a roof, Alyce is haunted by guilt and delves into a brutal nightmare wonderland of sex, drugs and violence, her mind tearing itself apart.

The events that unfolded in Cleveland a couple of weeks ago has shaken the whole Northeastern Ohio area to its core.

Greek-American ten finger guitarist Andreas Kapsalis and Serbian-American nylon string classical guitarist Goran Ivanovic continue to experiment with the boundaries of jazz and classical guitar music, mixing in accents they picked up touring the world over the last four years.

Cinema 21's excellent noir series Return to Noir Ville is back for another year, and today's films are some great ones: the Coen brothers' Texas noir Blood Simple, 1944's Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews flick Laura, and Fritz Lang's 1953 classic The Big Heat.

"You know, sometimes I think it's giving the good Lord the worst of it to say he invented people." Jubal Troop is a soft-spoken drifter who stumbles upon a ranch owned by the jovial Shep Horgan .

Summer is when the stream of tourists to South Florida slows, deterred by hot, wet weather and the threat of hurricanes.

May 17, 2013 - MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Film, stage and television actor Rudy Ramos will perform a reading of Geronimo, Life on the Reservation at the Memphis Film Festival during the weekend of June 13-15, 2013.

House of cards Set in the 1970s, a time of turbulent political upheaval in England, James Graham's drama This House imagines the backroom struggles in Parliament.

It's an exciting week for fans of classic horror, as new UK distributor Altitude Films is bringing a plethora of atmospheric chillers to DVD.

The Arthur Lyon's Film Noir Festival began Thursday, May 17 in Palm Springs and the audience was treated to not only a rare print on "Three Strangers" and an Q&A with Geraldine Fitzgerald's son, Michael Lindsay Hogg, but also learned a of Fitzgerald's little-known secret.

'There's nothing more intriguing than a movie star wrapped like a mummy playing someone just emerging from plastic surgery.

Riding on a plane, sitting in a movie theater or while walking down Hollywood Boulevard, I couldn't believe I was in Los Angeles for the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival.

Handsome, charming, well-liked Johnnie Aysgarth is a worthless cheat, so when he marries Lina McLaidlaw , the naA ve daughter of a wealthy retired general , everyone except Lina believes Johnnie is only after his wife's inheritance.

Has there ever been a detective as cool as Philip Marlowe, the pulp fiction creation of Raymond Chandler? As quick with a wisecrack as he was with gun, Marlowe worked the lonely streets and seedy alleys of '30 L.A. "I needed a drink," runs one first-person riff.

Convicted art gallery owner Sherry Washington lost her appeal Tuesday of a seven-year prison sentence for raiding more than $3 million from the Detroit Public Schools.

Kate Beckinsale took this philosophy to heart when she wore all black except for the glowing neon straps which traced her feet and ankles at the Star Trek Into Darkness premiere on Tuesday in Los Angeles.

A writer/director looks back at his time at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and offers advice to the throngs of theater artists arriving in the Berkshires.