There have been multiple film waves and movements throughout the medium's history, and during the Classical Hollywood Era, ...

Among the most pleasurable entries in director Orson Welles’s filmography are those projects that find him trying to wedge his eccentricities into a standard genre template and failing to do so with ...

From "Sunset Boulevard" to "The Reckless Moment" to "Leave Her to Heaven," the best film noir movies of all time are visions of a universally known truth, but one not always spoken out loud: It can be ...

Marked by stark visual contrasts, chiaroscuro lighting, and sharp angles pioneered in German expressionism, noir plunges the viewer into morally gray situations in which good may triumph, but at a ...

The genre-hopping debut feature from emerging filmmaker Wang Tong blends noir thriller elements with poignant social commentary to set an early high bar for Shanghai’s Golden Goblet competition. By ...

The festival kicked off with the first installment of the epic, a brooding tale of abuse, dismemberment and survival in wartime Shanghai, anchored by a career-redefining turn from Zhang Ziyi. By ...