A new biography and retrospectives of journeyman director Richard Fleischer should bring new eyeballs to his masterful but underseen 1971 thriller.

Duke Mitchell's gonzo exploitation masterwork was once thought lost and unsalvageable. Now, it's widely available to see. But are you ready for it?

Eighty years after its initial release, Jacques Tournier's underrated ensemble Western is ripe for canonization.

As we celebrate what would have been the iconic character actor's 100th birthday, it's his smallest roles that often left the largest impression.

The Los Angeles-based film fest celebrating "the cinema of despair" expands globally, bringing arthouse audiences together in shared misery.

A look back at Sam Peckinpah’s violent but meditative “definitive statement” on the Western.

A forgotten '50s musical noir melodrama is an unexpected gonzo masterpiece that deserves rediscovery and cult classic status.

Bill Duke's adaptation of Chester Himes's iconic crime novel remains a minor but important work in the canon of neo-noir cinema.

The late filmmaker was best known for horror and sci-fi, but his final three films straddled the line between horror, noir, and pitch-black comedy.