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8 Classic Film Noirs Every Horror Fan Should See

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Opening February 10 at MoMA Film, Death Is My Dance Partner: Film Noir in Postwar Argentina presents a darkly entertaining and uniquely indigenous brand of noir. 

[No abras nunca esa puerta (Never Open That Door). 1952. Argentina. Produced and directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen. 85 min.]

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As we slip into the dreariness of winter, use the early darkness to get caught up on all the film noir you need.

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When ‘Moonlighting’ Turned Itself Into a Perfect Film Noir to Solve an Aging Crime

‘Structurally Sound’ is a recurring feature where each week a different structurally unusual, rule-breaking anomaly of an episode from a comedy series is examined. “That night was the beginning. We would see more of each other, then all of each other. But this is television, so we won't get into that.” Moonlighting is the sort [...]

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Philip Marlowe’s Los Angeles: Tracking Down The Real 1930s Locations of Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep

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‘Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s and 1950s’

An eight-novel collection reveals the influence of women on midcentury noir.

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'Adrift in Macao' sends up film noir with Christopher Durang silliness - Oregon Music News

"Macao" is a delicious combo of brilliant silliness, satire and film-noir nostalgia, thanks to the grand lyrics and hilarious script by the high priest of the outrageously silly and absurd--Christopher Durang.

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Film Noir Festival Brings Vintage-Inspired Talent To Kansas City

For hundreds of classic movies in danger of being forgotten, the Film Noir Foundation is here to save the day.

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The Lyric Opera of Kansas City’s film noir production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” was a successful, stylized modernization. Director Kristine McIntyre’s concept works for the opera with its violence, ambiguous morals, beautiful women, ominous setting and, of course, the unrepentant leading man.

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We’re Living in a 21st Century Film Noir | The Creators Project

From Snowden to Salgado, a look at the modern state of the ever-prescient genre.

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2 Noir Series Hit Portland This Fall

The elements of classic noir seem perfectly at home in a city like Portland.

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Watch The Best Of Vintage Film Noir All Weekend At The Music Box

Beginning August 28, the Film Noir Foundation presents 17 vintage movies of dark crime at the Music Box.

Lucky Chicago. Of course h/t filmnoirfoundation, but it’s nice to see their work getting attention from other media outlets.

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Visitors observing a statue at the Naples Archeological Museum, Naples, Italy, 1952, a photo by Chim [David Seymour]

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During the heyday of film noir, the 1940s and '50s, dozens of actresses made their mark on the genre. Some were just passing through, taking a single noir role on the way to stardom in other genres – Lucille Ball in The Dark Corner, Doris Day in Julie. Others were film noir's great femmes fatales, the women who made noir great: Lauren Bacall, Gloria Grahame, Veronica Lake, Joan Crawford.

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GOODS | Feverish World Of "Film Noir" In Its Heyday Now Screening At The Cinematheque | Scout Magazine

The GOODS from The Cinematheque Vancouver, BC | The feverish, fatalistic world of Film Noir returns to The Cinematheque with 12 hard-boiled classics from noir’s 1940s/1950s heyday, including The Blue Dhalia, In a Lonely Place, and The Big Heat on 35mm, plus two Noir sidebar programs: The Psycho Western and The Paranoid Conspiracy Thriller of …

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Infographic explains “film noir” and finds the most noir film of them all

The term “film noir” is thrown around a lot to describe a great many films. Neo-noirs, film soleil, and other such spin-offs and mutations are also used to describe recent endeavors in everything from a Coen Brothers film to the latest season of True Detective. But just what is film noir?

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Andrew Karnavas Goes Dark to Bring 'Film Noir' to the Stage

Imagine stepping into an old film noir picture, one of those gritty, black-and-white movies from the 1940s and 1950s where life is cheap, the detectives are hard-boiled, the men all wear fedoras, the women are usually referred to as “dames,” everybody smokes, and redemption is just a word listed in the dictionary under "R."