Despite its fatalistic title, Louis Malle’s splendid 1958 Parisian noir Elevator to the Gallows still marks an ascent to immortality six decades later, especially for a then-24-year-old French auteur ...

Normally, you'd be in pretty good shape if you planned the perfect murder based on the principle that what goes up must come down; isn't that a no-brainer? But if you were in the film noir universe, ...