When most of us think of film noir, the soundtrack we hear in our heads is sultry torch singers and forlorn saxophones. Yet noir rarely sounded like that. Most of these classic crime stories of the ...

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The American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME)will perform music by Danish composers Frans Bak, Ejnar Kanding andMBD73 (aka Carsten Bo Eriksen) in a concert called Nordic Noir at Le Poisson Rouge ...

“In the 1940s, when Hollywood scores were mostly orchestral, jazz was shown on screen as symbolic of the underworld,” says Muller, who, besides being president-founder of the Film Noir Foundation, is ...

Yolanda Perdomo is an award-winning journalist and a digital producer for CBS Chicago. Previously, Yolanda was a producer and reporter for WBEZ, WCPN, and WXXI. This year's theme is "Darkness Has No ...

Lucky number 13. Talk about a stroke of film noir fate! The 2023 edition of Noir City Chicago, the annual celebration of mean streets and what the French call “malchance,” gathers a week’s worth of ...