The phrase “film noir” often calls to mind the image of a fedora-clad sleuth investigating a perplexing crime that may or may not involve the woman he loves in a shadow-swarmed city in the 1940s.

Former congressman Dr. Dave Weldon blames pharmaceutical industry lobbying for contributing to the withdrawal of his nomination as director of the CDC, as some Republicans may have voted against him.

She added, "Joan once described a man to me as a ‘bungalow — everything downstairs, nothing upstairs.’ She’s so funny." Stone also revealed that she had it added to her film contracts that ...

In 2020, film critic Alissa Wilkinson started working on a book project about Joan Didion. She wanted to explore the iconic essayist, reporter, novelist and playwright through an angle that hadn ...

EXCLUSIVE: Joan Rater and Tony Phelan, co-creators and executive producers of CBS’ popular drama Fire Country and its upcoming spinoff series Sheriff Country, have signed a first-look producing ...

Even when Didion moved away from film reviews to become one of the preeminent essayists of her generation, she clung to Wayne as an avatar. Joan Didion’s diary of post-therapy notes, addressed ...

The noir genre has enjoyed a resurgence in recent years, driven partly by so-called "Scandi noir" produced in Nordic countries. With the Tasmanian landscape as a backdrop, Australian writer ...

March 24, 2025 Some people use noir to mean a spare writing style ... Robert Syverten is a fresh-faced young man hoping to make it as a film director in Hollywood during the Depression ...