Two films with clocks as a plot device are scheduled for the Noir City festivals ... the prison yard and in a guard tower are seen in the background before and after the attempted jailbreak.

"I think Chicago has a rich tradition of being a great petri dish for film noir, based on the history of the city and the background and the colorful characters that came out of all that.

Lucky number 13. Talk about a stroke of film noir fate! The 2023 edition of Noir City Chicago, the annual celebration of mean streets and what the French call “malchance,” gathers a week’s ...

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 ...

Eddie Muller, host of TCM’s “Noir Alley,” created the Noir City film festival 20 years ago. (Courtesy of the Film Noir Foundation) Muller is the author of several books on film noir, a genre of crime ...

Between the 1940s and 1950s, the film noir genre reigned ... and a traditional crime noir set against an authentic backdrop featuring the darkest corners of New York City's underworld.

He said he wanted to open the refurbished theater with “a big event that people care a lot about,” something that would attract a “die-hard group of film fanatics.” The Noir City ...

An example of that would be “Act of Violence,” the Fred Zinneman film that shows Sunday afternoon; that one has shown more than once at Noir City, the festival that he and Eddie Muller co-host ...