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Although the movement was named by the French, film noir has always been an American genre. But as the 12th San Francisco Film Noir Festival shows, the bitterness of American crime films of the 1940s found some kindred spirits in Europe and in Asia ...

Burt Lancaster in The Killers (1946) Here's an interesting piece from The New Yorker a couple of years ago exploring the slippery boundaries of film noir. It's particularly timely now when we live in an age where any number of lazy TV critics assign...

Synopsis: “A man plans a hold-up with a group of trusted fellows, he gets his hands on the money, and the girl – what could go wrong? Almost everything.” – IMDb Review: The Locksmith Killer. Daniel Boisett (Robert Hossein) and his friend Paul Genest...

Noir City, Akio Takamori's Apology Series, A Tiny Sense of Accomplishment, And More Picks For Feb 13-19 by Stranger Things To Do Staff This week, our arts and culture critics have picked the best events in every genre, and we've compiled them below...

Welcome to a gentle back-and-forth about the movies that have played at Noir City 13 (NC13), the Film Noir Foundation's annual film fest, now at its midpoint at San Francisco's Castro Theatre. My thanks for contributions from Meredith Brody, David Robson...