Experience the excitement, romance, comedy, and glamour of Hollywood in a whole new way. Turner Classic Movies presents the ultimate cinematic getaway, a five-night voyage overflowing with great movies, great friends, and memories to last a lifetime. Join TCM October 26-31, 2024, aboard the Disney Magic as we journey from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to beautiful Cozumel, Mexico and Disney ...
NOIR ALLEY
Whether you're a hardboiled noir addict or newly seasoned to the genre, Noir Alley is the place for all things noir. Because you need noir, now more than ever. FEATURED FILMS. 4/6 - Violence (1947) 4/13 - The Breaking Point (1950) 4/20 - Born to Kill (1947) 4/27 - The Big Knife (1955) 5/4 - Dark Passage (1947) 5/11 - Follow Me Quietly (1949)
"Czar of Noir" Eddie Muller's Surprising Thoughts on the ...
I met up with Muller on the 2022 TCM Classic Cruise to talk about his travels with noir and the curious geography inhabited by the pulpy category and its fans.. Noir, for the palookas and rubes among us, can be a little hard to define. Most scholars agree it turns on a richly pessimistic style of low-budget, snappy-talking filmmaking that peaked between the postwar years and the mid 1950s but ...
Eddie Muller
Eddie Muller is the host of Noir Alley on Turner Classic Movies (TCM). Every Saturday, Noir Alley visits classic noir films featuring some of the best set-ups and shake downs involving iconic antiheroes and the unforgettable, fatalistic dames they fall for. Muller is a contemporary renaissance man. He writes novels, biographies, movie histories, plays, short stories, and films.
NOIR CITY Film Festival
NOIR CITY 21 PASSPORT. Secure your spot for the 10-day/24-film festival with an all-access pass for $200—a $40 savings over the regular ticket price! The Grand Lake Theatre will have a Passholders' queue for early admittance. → MORE INFO HERE. All you need to know about the NOIR CITY Film Festival ↓.
The 100 Best Film Noirs of All Time
A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder. Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez. Votes: 349,965. 8. The Big Heat (1953) Passed | 89 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller. 7.9.
Classic Hollywood: Film noir, TCM cruise and James Garner
Garner was just a natural on screen. There was an ease to his performances whether it be in his classic TV series like "Maverick" or "The Rockford Files" or in his many celebrated films ...
Minority Report (film)
Minority Report is a 2002 American science fiction action film directed by Steven Spielberg, loosely based on Philip K. Dick's 1956 novella "The Minority Report".The film takes place in the Washington metropolitan area in the year 2054, in which a specialized police department—Precrime—apprehends criminals by use of foreknowledge provided by three psychics called "precogs".
Film Noir and Neo-Noir on TCM: November, 2023
Ten years after her aunt was murdered in their London home, a woman returns from Italy in the 1880s to resume residence with her new husband. His obsessive interest in the home rises from a secret that may require driving his wife insane. Director: George Cukor | Stars: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, May Whitty.
31 Days of Oscar: Noir
Friday, March 3 | 5 Movies. Film noir has been called a genre, a style, an attitude, a movement, even an era of Hollywood filmmaking. Yet when filmmakers like Robert Siodmak, Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger and Fritz Lang were making the dark crime melodramas, murder mysteries and gangster thrillers that defined the genre, the term "film noir" was nowhere to be heard, at least not in the U.S.
'Jungle Cruise,' neo-noir films on Criterion, new Robin Roberts talk
One of the summer's most delicious movie events is the neo-noir series running on the Criterion Channel. It's a 26-film gallery of some best noirs that came well after the genre's '40s and ...
50 Greatest Film Noir Movies
13. The Third Man (1949) Approved | 93 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller. Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime. Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard.
The 25 Best Film Noir Movies Of All Time
22. In a Lonely Place (1950) The movie poster for "In a Lonely Place." Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place delves into the dark undercurrents of Hollywood, focusing on the turbulent life of Dixon ...
Film noir
Film noir (/ n w ɑːr /; French: [film nwaʁ]) is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylized Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and motivations.The 1940s and 1950s are generally regarded as the "classic period" of American film noir.Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key, black-and-white visual style that has roots in German ...
What Is Film Noir? Genre & Best Movies Explained
To this day, movie critics are divided over the film noir status of beloved classics like Notorious with Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman, 1950's Sunset Boulevard, and one of the most well-respected classic movies of all-time, Casablanca. There's also plenty of debate surrounding modern favorites as well, such as Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight ...
The 10 Best Film Noir Movies Of All-Time
The inspiration of many of the classic film noir features came from the crime novels at the time. One of the most prolific writers in this genre was Dashiell Hammett whose novel The Maltese Falcon spawned what many considered to be the first mainstream example of film noir.. RELATED: 15 Terrible Plot Devices That Ruined Amazing Movies In the film, Humphrey Bogart plays private investigator Sam ...
Essential Noir Films for Noirvember
This iconic film noir, based on an equally iconic source material (Dashiell Hammett's book of the same name), is the epitome of what a film noir can be. ... Tom Cruise is excellent, and the film ...
10 great film noirs
10 great American film noirs. We turn back the clock to the golden age of Hollywood to select 10 of the best American film noirs. 24 July 2014. By Sam Wigley. The Lady from Shanghai (1947) It's "the weirdest great movie ever made", in critic Dave Kehr's words. The one in which Orson Welles plays a sailor with an overcooked Irish accent ...
100 Best Film Noir Movies Ranked
Sunset Boulevard (1950)98%. #5. Critics Consensus: Arguably the greatest movie about Hollywood, Billy Wilder's masterpiece Sunset Boulevard is a tremendously entertaining combination of noir, black comedy, and character study. Synopsis: An aging silent film queen refuses to accept that her stardom has ended.
Film Noir (2007)
Los Angeles, night time; a man opens his eyes and regains consciousness. A car is parked nearby. Next to the car is a dead policeman's body. It seems like the man is the one who killed him. Next to the body is a gun. He can't remember anything--how he got there in the first place, what happened...
The 100 Best Film Noirs of All Time
The 100 Best Film Noirs of All Time. 1. The Woman in the Window (1944) Passed | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir. When a conservative middle aged professor engages in a relationship with a femme fatale, he's plunged into a nightmarish world of blackmail and murder.
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Movie Film-Noir. See results. Search filters Expand all. Title name. ... Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot. 47. Sweet Smell of Success. 1957 1h 36m Approved. 8.0 (36K) Rate. 100 Metascore.
14 Film Noirs Every Mystery Lover Should See
Double Indemnity (1944) Directed by John Huston, this film is a cornerstone of the film noir genre, featuring Humphrey Bogart as the iconic private detective Sam Spade. Its complex plot, filled ...
Dangerous Crossing (1953)
Dangerous Crossing is a weak thriller with a plot familiar from countless radio shows and movies: somebody claims that a relative or friend has disappeared, but no evidence of the missing person's existence can be found. This gimmick works well enough when encountered for the first time, in movies like Bunny Lake is Missing or the relatively new Jodie Foster show Flightplan.
It's a Miracle 'The Mummy' Even Got Made
Fantasy. At an archaeological dig in the ancient city of Hamunaptra, an American serving in the French Foreign Legion accidentally awakens a mummy who begins to wreak havoc as he searches for the ...
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on Thursday, May 2 nd. at 6.30pm, Marseille time. See the teaser. CHANEL and Virginie Viard have chosen to present the Cruise 2024/25 collection in Marseille, the pulsating heart of the Mediterranean, at the crossroads of contemporary cultures. In a film directed by Ladj Ly, with a choreography imagined by (LA)HORDE, dancers of the Ballet ...
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Experience the excitement, romance, comedy, and glamour of Hollywood in a whole new way. Turner Classic Movies presents the ultimate cinematic getaway, a five-night voyage overflowing with great movies, great friends, and memories to last a lifetime. Join TCM October 26-31, 2024, aboard the Disney Magic as we journey from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to beautiful Cozumel, Mexico and Disney ...
Whether you're a hardboiled noir addict or newly seasoned to the genre, Noir Alley is the place for all things noir. Because you need noir, now more than ever. FEATURED FILMS. 4/6 - Violence (1947) 4/13 - The Breaking Point (1950) 4/20 - Born to Kill (1947) 4/27 - The Big Knife (1955) 5/4 - Dark Passage (1947) 5/11 - Follow Me Quietly (1949)
I met up with Muller on the 2022 TCM Classic Cruise to talk about his travels with noir and the curious geography inhabited by the pulpy category and its fans.. Noir, for the palookas and rubes among us, can be a little hard to define. Most scholars agree it turns on a richly pessimistic style of low-budget, snappy-talking filmmaking that peaked between the postwar years and the mid 1950s but ...
Eddie Muller is the host of Noir Alley on Turner Classic Movies (TCM). Every Saturday, Noir Alley visits classic noir films featuring some of the best set-ups and shake downs involving iconic antiheroes and the unforgettable, fatalistic dames they fall for. Muller is a contemporary renaissance man. He writes novels, biographies, movie histories, plays, short stories, and films.
NOIR CITY 21 PASSPORT. Secure your spot for the 10-day/24-film festival with an all-access pass for $200—a $40 savings over the regular ticket price! The Grand Lake Theatre will have a Passholders' queue for early admittance. → MORE INFO HERE. All you need to know about the NOIR CITY Film Festival ↓.
A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder. Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez. Votes: 349,965. 8. The Big Heat (1953) Passed | 89 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller. 7.9.
Garner was just a natural on screen. There was an ease to his performances whether it be in his classic TV series like "Maverick" or "The Rockford Files" or in his many celebrated films ...
Minority Report is a 2002 American science fiction action film directed by Steven Spielberg, loosely based on Philip K. Dick's 1956 novella "The Minority Report".The film takes place in the Washington metropolitan area in the year 2054, in which a specialized police department—Precrime—apprehends criminals by use of foreknowledge provided by three psychics called "precogs".
Ten years after her aunt was murdered in their London home, a woman returns from Italy in the 1880s to resume residence with her new husband. His obsessive interest in the home rises from a secret that may require driving his wife insane. Director: George Cukor | Stars: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, May Whitty.
Friday, March 3 | 5 Movies. Film noir has been called a genre, a style, an attitude, a movement, even an era of Hollywood filmmaking. Yet when filmmakers like Robert Siodmak, Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger and Fritz Lang were making the dark crime melodramas, murder mysteries and gangster thrillers that defined the genre, the term "film noir" was nowhere to be heard, at least not in the U.S.
One of the summer's most delicious movie events is the neo-noir series running on the Criterion Channel. It's a 26-film gallery of some best noirs that came well after the genre's '40s and ...
13. The Third Man (1949) Approved | 93 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller. Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime. Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard.
22. In a Lonely Place (1950) The movie poster for "In a Lonely Place." Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place delves into the dark undercurrents of Hollywood, focusing on the turbulent life of Dixon ...
Film noir (/ n w ɑːr /; French: [film nwaʁ]) is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylized Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and motivations.The 1940s and 1950s are generally regarded as the "classic period" of American film noir.Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key, black-and-white visual style that has roots in German ...
To this day, movie critics are divided over the film noir status of beloved classics like Notorious with Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman, 1950's Sunset Boulevard, and one of the most well-respected classic movies of all-time, Casablanca. There's also plenty of debate surrounding modern favorites as well, such as Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight ...
The inspiration of many of the classic film noir features came from the crime novels at the time. One of the most prolific writers in this genre was Dashiell Hammett whose novel The Maltese Falcon spawned what many considered to be the first mainstream example of film noir.. RELATED: 15 Terrible Plot Devices That Ruined Amazing Movies In the film, Humphrey Bogart plays private investigator Sam ...
This iconic film noir, based on an equally iconic source material (Dashiell Hammett's book of the same name), is the epitome of what a film noir can be. ... Tom Cruise is excellent, and the film ...
10 great American film noirs. We turn back the clock to the golden age of Hollywood to select 10 of the best American film noirs. 24 July 2014. By Sam Wigley. The Lady from Shanghai (1947) It's "the weirdest great movie ever made", in critic Dave Kehr's words. The one in which Orson Welles plays a sailor with an overcooked Irish accent ...
Sunset Boulevard (1950)98%. #5. Critics Consensus: Arguably the greatest movie about Hollywood, Billy Wilder's masterpiece Sunset Boulevard is a tremendously entertaining combination of noir, black comedy, and character study. Synopsis: An aging silent film queen refuses to accept that her stardom has ended.
Los Angeles, night time; a man opens his eyes and regains consciousness. A car is parked nearby. Next to the car is a dead policeman's body. It seems like the man is the one who killed him. Next to the body is a gun. He can't remember anything--how he got there in the first place, what happened...
The 100 Best Film Noirs of All Time. 1. The Woman in the Window (1944) Passed | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir. When a conservative middle aged professor engages in a relationship with a femme fatale, he's plunged into a nightmarish world of blackmail and murder.
Movie Film-Noir. See results. Search filters Expand all. Title name. ... Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot. 47. Sweet Smell of Success. 1957 1h 36m Approved. 8.0 (36K) Rate. 100 Metascore.
Double Indemnity (1944) Directed by John Huston, this film is a cornerstone of the film noir genre, featuring Humphrey Bogart as the iconic private detective Sam Spade. Its complex plot, filled ...
Dangerous Crossing is a weak thriller with a plot familiar from countless radio shows and movies: somebody claims that a relative or friend has disappeared, but no evidence of the missing person's existence can be found. This gimmick works well enough when encountered for the first time, in movies like Bunny Lake is Missing or the relatively new Jodie Foster show Flightplan.
Fantasy. At an archaeological dig in the ancient city of Hamunaptra, an American serving in the French Foreign Legion accidentally awakens a mummy who begins to wreak havoc as he searches for the ...
on Thursday, May 2 nd. at 6.30pm, Marseille time. See the teaser. CHANEL and Virginie Viard have chosen to present the Cruise 2024/25 collection in Marseille, the pulsating heart of the Mediterranean, at the crossroads of contemporary cultures. In a film directed by Ladj Ly, with a choreography imagined by (LA)HORDE, dancers of the Ballet ...