John Gardner is one of the best film noir actors everyone should know, but his character, Frank Chambers, had no chance when Cora got her hooks into him. When Cora convinces Frank to kill her ...

That foreboding sense of time defines film noir — in English, “dark film” — a phrase that was coined in 1938 by Lucien Rebatet, the French author who wrote under the pseudonym François ...

From Ellis Island to Lampedusa, from Seoul to Senegal, filmmakers have used cinema to chart the hopes, heartbreak and quiet ...

The genre enjoyed its height during the 1940s and ’50s. Since then, film noir has fallen out of fashion, and while modern neo-noir movies exploring similar themes are common, they aren’t ...

“Double Indemnity” (1944), film noir starring Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray and Edward G. Robinson, directed by Billy Wilder Episode 4: “Starry Eyed” ...

“Cry Wolf,” showing at Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in Palm Springs Individual tickets for the screenings at the Palm Springs Cultural Center are $16.29 (including a $1.79 processing fee).

The days are getting longer everywhere, except Palm Springs, where darkness is on the ascent each May. That’s when the city plays host to the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival, which is ...