Film Noir News

Greenwich resident Michael Kovner is a film noir buff and he loves sharing his passion for the dark, cynical crime genre with others - a genre that includes classics such as "The Big Sleep" and "Born to Kill."

This morning, Milwaukee Film in collaboration with Alverno Presents announced the centerpiece film of this year's festival, a screening of a rare 35mm print of Soviet writer-director Aleksandr Dovzhenko's 1930 silent film "Earth."

After the care bestowed upon Ted Kotcheff's lost masterpiece WAKE IN FRIGHT and the 1987 Tae Kwon Do friendship epic MIAMI CONNECTION, any repertory title from Drafthouse Films is one to be excited about.

There are higher waterfalls than Niagara Falls, sure. But the width and incredible volume of the waterfall that straddles the border of Canada and the US is a bucket-list-worthy sight to behold.

He kept San Diego classy throughout the seventies, but now Ron Burgundy is gearing up to take on eighties Manhattan in Anchorman 2. Will Ferrell's moustachioed news man returns after nine years, and he's got the whole gang along for the ride.

The official home video release details have arrived for the new flick from the makers of Zombie Strippers , entitled Alyce Kills , and we have all the info you need right here.

If you can't wait for the release of "World War Z" this weekend, you can get your horror fix today, June 18, with the DVD release of the Gothic thriller " Stoker ".

Marilyn Monroe has been gone for over 50 years, but the fascination with the Hollywood sex symbol has endured and the mystic remains.

If looking to stay cool this summer, the Senior Center of the Chathams' air-conditioned room is open from 9:15 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday .

Acclaimed Hollywood actor Michael Sheen is to read Neil Gaiman's new novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane on Radio 4's Book at Bedtime strand next month, RadioTimes.com can reveal.

June 17--Think of it as a Hitchcock-a-palooza. It may be the summer of such blockbuster spectacles as "Man of Steel," "The Lone Ranger" and "World War Z," but it's also the summer of movies by a real-life legend: Alfred Hitchcock.

It's been a weekend of highly enjoyable '50s Columbia noir, starting with NIGHTFALL and then moving on to 5 AGAINST THE HOUSE and THE BROTHERS RICO .

WHO: Alfred Hitchcock directed this, and appears in one of the first of his famous cameos, "strolling past a tennis court" according to Patrick McGilligan .

Tonight's Saturday Night Cinema feature is "Where the Sidewalk Ends." Another film noir jewel unearthed.

Time for another quick look at what's coming this fall in Fox's new take on "Sleepy Hollow" from a powerhouse Hollywood trio comprised of co-creators/executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci and director Len Wiseman.

Yep, that's what he said in the current show at The Fishtank, current production, The Mask of the Broken Hear t, a tongue-in-cheek detective style caper.

WHO: Alfred Hitchcock directed this. WHAT: Though Hitchcock disparaged its dialogue and the naA vetA© of one of its most memorable sequences, and though some modern critics find fault with its thematic misogyny, Downhill is a feast for admirers of the director's visual flourishes, second perhaps only to Blackmail among the silent Hitchcocks I've ... (more)

This weekend finishes up the East/West selections of the Paramount summer classic film series, with two fantastic movies for Sunday at Stateside: Wong Kar Wai's heartbreakingly beautiful In the Mood for Love paired with the impeccably sweet romance of Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding .

In Starz' Magic City , set in Miami just following the Cuban revolution, Danny Huston plays local mob boss Ben Diamond alongside Jeffrey Dean Morgan's Ike Evans, the owner of the beachfront Miramar Playa hotel.

June 12--The first shot of what many consider the first "real" Alfred Hitchcock film is stunning -- a young woman, her pretty face contorted with fear as she becomes the victim of a Jack the Ripper-ish mass killer; her hair bathed in an angelic light.