Short for British film noir, Brit Noir hit the domestic cinema consciousness last August when New York’s Film Forum ran a comprehensive 44-film series that featured guns, gangsters and all the ...

Odd Man Out, a post-WWII British film noir, explores themes of political struggle and moral ambiguity through a haunting narrative. James Mason delivers a tour de force performance, adding ...

Directed by Sir Carol Reed, the film captured the atmosphere of a divided, ruined Vienna. But much of its lasting power lies with Orson Welles, whose magnetic, menacing turn as Harry Lime stole the ...

Few films are as striking to look at or listen to as the British film noir “The Third Man.” Its shadow-soaked black-and-white palette, artfully askew camera angles and elaborately expressive ...

Victim is a 1961 British film noir that is not only a highly regarded film, but was also important in helping to change centuries-old attitudes and laws in the UK against homosexuality. The film ...

At New York's Film Forum, the 44-movie series "Brit Noir," with its tales of coppers, spivs, and psychopaths, is packed with titles ripe for the rediscovery of Britain's vibrant and eclectic film ...

This year’s theme is Darkness Has No Borders: 15 key programs pair classics of American and British film noir with non-English-language dramas that prove hard-boiled gangsters, tough dames, and ...

Rob Edelman has written several books on film, television, and baseball, and was a longtime Contributing Editor of Leonard Maltin’s annual Movie Guide. He teaches film history at the University ...

The British, like America, was experiencing a dispirited post-war mood and produced edgy, expressionistic film noir such as Carol Reed’s “The Third Man” (1949), which used a murder mystery ...

Two film noir classics by British director Carol Reed screen all week at Music Box.