Modern movies like Drive and Sin City capture the elements of the noir genre, with seedy characters, corruption, and a dark ...

Why does Los Angeles continue to play a leading role in film noir? Its status as America’s long-reigning film capital is part of it. The city also lends itself to film noir because it is such a ...

What it’s about: A Los Angeles private investigator who specializes in cases involving adultery is drawn into a dangerous conspiracy. Why it is one of the best film noir movies: Had Chinatown ...

It was the basis for the bulk of the film noir genre for a reason. While New York, and Chicago, Miami, Detroit, and some others, have seen their own private eye tales, Los Angeles is the city we ...

arrives in Los Angeles via taxi in David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive.” “The Long Goodbye”: Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) at the beach in Robert Altman’s existential noir. “Rocky III ...

In the Apple TV+ series “Sugar,” Colin Farrell plays a Los Angeles detective ... Glenn Ford used in the 1950s noir — as well as several Humphrey Bogart films. We then see clips from each ...

Daniel Sackheim’s intriguing landscapes of Los Angeles evoke a time of classic film of the Film Noir period. His landscapes of Downtown Los Angeles, Hollywood Blvd, the distant pier of Santa ...