the Art Deco movement (which the skyscrapers of Gotham City are made in the visage of), and film noir. Noir is a film genre characterized by dark high-contrast shadows ("noir" means "black" in ...

The phrase “film noir” often calls to mind the image of a fedora-clad sleuth investigating a perplexing crime that may or may not involve the woman he loves in a shadow-swarmed city in the 1940s.

Shadow and fog will figuratively roll in to Oakland’s Grand Lake Theatre this week and next during the 22nd Noir City film festival running Jan. 24 through Feb. 2. Alameda’s Eddie Muller ...

Film noir is the perfect movie genre for this time of year. So long as there’s a chill in the air and the nighttime outlasts the day, it’s easy to get lost in noir’s murky side streets and obfuscating ...