Ranked among the "Best Movies of All Time," "Chinatown" remains the gold standard for mystery and noir storytelling.

Since the Golden Age of Hollywood, crime thrillers and mysteries have served as the underpinnings of prestige cinema, from The Maltese Falcon to Chinatown. When it comes to the Noir movement, a cinema ...

The New Hollywood movement defines 1970s American cinema: a time of unprecedented creative freedom when desperate studios were willing to take risks on ambitious auteurs. Cinema 21 celebrates this ...

The movie business grew up in the pages of Variety. There is no more comprehensive chronicle of film history than Variety – hands down, no contest, case closed. This gallery backs up that bold ...

All we share, and all we experience, echoes across time.

Body Heat, Chinatown, and Blue Velvet are all among the very best and most important neo-noir movies of all time.