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    Tribeca Film Festival 2025: Documentaries & Shorts

    Suzannah Herbert’s "Natchez" deservedly won the best documentary award at last week's Tribeca Film Festival. It's a fun and trenchant but never preachy analysis of how racism still exists in the American South. Natchez, Mississippi was once a big cotton town but boll weevils in the 1930's destroyed the crops. It then turned into a tourist destination, offering tours of dozens of well-preserved Antebellum houses....

    Tribeca Film Festival 2025: Narrative Features

    Even with access to both the theater press screenings and Tribeca at Home app (for remote access), it was all I could do to catch two dozen of the films. (The app wasn't working for many users for several days and it would have been nice if they could have extended the days it was available for critics.) Here are my notes of my...
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    The Top 100 Film Noirs: #100 to #91

    Paste Magazine has just published their list of the best 100 film noir movies of all time. We were especially surprised by their choice...

    Film Noir and TCM

    One of the best sources of noir movies has always been Turner Classic Movies. Saturday nights at midnight the "Czar of Noir" Eddie Muller...

    Barry Forshaw on Crime Fiction

    Barry Forshaw is a British writer who specialises in crime fiction. He has written many books, including “British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia”, “The Rough...

    Streaming The Detectives

    Start your introduction to detective fiction by reading three classics of the genre and then comparing them to their best film adaptations, two of which are among the best of Film Noir.