Bob le flambeur
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
DVD Video Review: Released by Optimum in 2006, Anthony Nield takes a look back at their Region 2 handling of Jean-Pierre Melville's first gangster movie, Bob le flambeur.
Jacques Becker
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Touchez pas au grisbi
Lost in the Frame (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Jeanne Moreau, Jean Gabin, Dora Doll, René Dary, and Vittorio Sanipoli (barely visible at right) in Touchez pas au grisbi (dir. Jacques Becker, 1954). Marilyn Buferd. René Dary. The title means "hands off the loot," and that's a pretty accurate summary of the story: two aging gangsters attempt to protect the "grisbi" they've recently acquired in the climactic heist of their career from a rival criminal...
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Fests and events, 7/30.
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
"Starting with the bleak contours of the period preceding the German Occupation and its aftermath's anxious confusion to the stylish rebellion of the New Wave and today's slicker psychological studies, French film directors like Jean-Pierre Melville, Jacques Becker, Jean-Luc...
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Douce (1943)
Ferdy on Films, etc. (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
Douce (1943) Director: Claude Autant-Lara Screenwriters: Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost By Marilyn Ferdinand One of my favorite directors is Bertrand Tavernier. I haven't come anywhere near to seeing all his films, but I’ve tried to take advantage of every...
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Barry Yourgrau: Some 2007 Pleasures: Best Prison Escape Movie Ever?
anonymous (Free subscription) | 12/31/2007
From 2007 encounters, some of the film, books, art, blogs, etc. that linger in my own mind:
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