In case you are not familiar with film noir, the term was coined by French film critics to describe a style of cinema rooted in hard-boiled crime fiction — think Raymond Chandler, Dashiell ...

Directed by Edward Dmytryk The essential classic noir, Murder, My Sweet, is an adaptation of Raymond Chandler 's 1940 novel Farewell, My Lovely, with Dick Powell starring as the infamous gumshoe ...

Although film noir often refers to films of the 1940s and ’50s, many film historians cite 1930s films as the birth of noir, when detective fiction blossomed and was adapted to the screen.

That’s when the city plays host to the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary May 9-12 with a program of a dozen classic films from the 1940s and ’50s.