Eddie Muller earned that moniker as the world’s foremost expert and preserver of film noir, the classic not-quite-a-genre of Hollywood movie that gave us shadowy alleys, flatfoots in tattered suits, ...

One of the most fascinating and often misunderstood genres in the history of cinema is a little period that most scholars agree only lasted between 1941 and 1958. But that’s only kind of true. Film ...

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A lonely canoe drifts and slowly disappears into the limitless ocean under a foreboding sky. Musicians sweat and smile joyfully as they perform in a crowded Havana nightclub. Two alcoholics share ...

The second-story man mutters to the airport floozie, “It’s crackers to slip the rozzer the dropsy in snide,”* and suddenly we’re in a strange new land, where subtitles might be necessary to suss out ...

A lonely canoe drifts and slowly disappears into the limitless ocean under a foreboding sky. Musicians sweat and smile joyfully as they perform in a crowded Havana nightclub. Two alcoholics share ...