'Blue Velvet' (1986) IMDb Rating: 7.7/10 David Lynch's Blue Velvet is a bold mix of psychological horror and film noir and is considered by many to be one of the greatest neo-noirs of all time.

The Fall Guy may exclusively be about stunt performers, but it's really a love letter to many genres; the film incorporates elements of romance, comedy, action, and mystery to give viewers a full ...

Paul Schrader, the filmmaker ("First Reformed," "Taxi Driver") and critic, in his essay "Notes on Film Noir," contends there were four elements present in 1940s Hollywood that fomented the birth ...

The film noir genre is universally known for its gritty, dark backdrops and hard-boiled, cynical characters, which correlate effortlessly with the genre's cinematography roots of German Expressionism.

The Sunday matinee, “The Underworld Story,” brings together three major elements of the 2022 festival: director Endfield, a racial theme, and a Film Noir Foundation-funded 35mm print (by the ...

There aren’t all those weird angles and shadows that you find in the noir cinematic playbook. ‘Monsieur Spade’ is shot almost like a French film of the ’60s, but the words are Hammett-like.” ...

“Film noir often manipulates chronology, and many films include flashbacks, and in these cases, it can be effective to show a clock or a watch,” said Milan Hain, the co-director of the Czech ...