Danger, desire and despair. These are just some of the key elements that make a classic noir film. One of the biggest celebrations of noir films, Noir City: Hollywood, celebrates its 21st anniversary ...

Film noir has some of the most iconic directors in movie history and these 10 are the smartest in the dark and dangerous ...

The femme fatale is a figure that dates back centuries. In Greek mythology there were The Sirens, whose song dragged sailors to the depths of the seas, as well as Clytemnestra — wife, seductress, and ...

NEW YORK – With a touch of Barbara Stanwyck, a sumptuous Art Deco office and a deadly shade of crimson lipstick, Cate Blanchett plays a femme fatale in Guillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley” with ...

Rita Hayworth in Orson Welles' "The Lady from Shanghai" (1947), screening at the Coolidge for Noirvember. (Courtesy Columbia Pictures/Photofest) For a lot of people, November means football and turkey ...

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Laura Ellis is pleased to release the original soundtrack recording of her theatrical jazz show, Femme Fatale: Music, Movies and Mayhem. This CD features music from Film Noir motion pictures of 1940's ...

Other than being diametrically opposed to the opinion of the guy who wrote her character, you could say Anne Hathaway's first day of work on the thriller "Serenity" went great. When she greeted writer ...

NEW YORK >> With a touch of Barbara Stanwyck, a sumptuous Art Deco office and a deadly shade of crimson lipstick, Cate Blanchett plays a femme fatale in Guillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley” with ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — With a touch of Barbara ...