Darkness and light make an uneasy truce for a 14th year at the San Francisco Film Noir Festival, and the 25 classic films unspooling (yes, in 35mm) during its 10 days at the Castro Theatre have an ...

Film Noir Foundation founder Eddie Muller will introduce each screening during the opening weekend. Local authors and noir aficionados Vince and Rosemarie Keenan will take over hosting duties Feb ...

Technically, it's the term -- coined in the 1955 French study, "Panorama du Film Noir Americain" -- for the distinct cycle of dark, stylish thrillers made in Hollywood in the late '40s that ...

Keenan recommends another of the festival’s restorations: “Victims of Sin” (Saturday, Feb. 17), a 1951 mix of film noir and hothouse melodrama from Mexico. He describes his first viewing as ...