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Night and the city - Jules Dassin (1950)
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Jules Dassin’s Brute Force (and a sidenote on homosexual Nazis in 1940s films)
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Watched my DVD of Jules Dassin’s prison film Brute Force last week (and before you ask, I had no idea then that Madhur Bhandarkar’s latest exercise in social awareness, Jail , was about to be released). This is a very gripping movie, right up there with I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang and Cool Hand Luke in its genre. It’s widely seen as a commentary on the brutality of prison life...
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Jay-Z, Alicia Keys Tour New York in “Empire State of Mind” Video
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Jay-Z | MySpace Video Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3 single “Empire State of Mind” is inescapable in New York, blaring from car stereos and even Yankee Stadium, where the hometown hero performed the track with Alicia Keys last week. Now the pair have debuted the video for their NYC love letter on MySpace Music. The clip was filmed [...]
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BFI DVD Collections in November
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
News: The BFI have announced the UK DVD release of three box-set collections in November 2009. These sets package together existing releases for the holiday season and are outlined below… 2nd November 2009 The Jacques Tati Collection - £39.99 RRP - J...
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Just some more thesis...
giallo fever (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
The giallo's deterritorialisation of the Hollywood thriller is, however, less pronounced than the spaghtti western's deterritorialisation of the Hollywood western. The obvious explanation for this is that whereas the thriller was indigenous to most countries in one form or another, the western was more exclusively American. It it is true that the figure of the cowboy has been compared with the European...
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Neglected Classics - Rififi
battle royale with cheese (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
When Quentin Tarantino was writing his debut feature Reservoir Dogs , the video store clerk sought inspiration by watching some of the classics of the crime genre, including The Taking of Pelham 123, The Killing and Jules Dassin’s 1955 heist thriller Rififi. Just as Tarantino’s film went on to inspire a generation of filmmakers and spawn a host of imitations, Dassin’s Rififi set the...
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Literary agent Alain Bernheim dies
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Obituary: Producer made headlines in Paramount lawsuit -- Producer and literary agent Alain Bernheim, who famously sued Paramount with Art Buchwald, died of bacterial meningitis Oct. 3 in Paris. He was 86.
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Mesrine: Killer Instinct
Day for Night (Free subscription) | 08/21/2009
I really enjoy French crime films: Jean-Pierre Melville, Jules Dassin, etc. While Mesrine does not seem to be as philosophically rich as Melville's films it does not lack subtleties that encourage discovering why this man turned into such a monster. At first he seems incapable of harming women, and then he viciously beats his wife and puts a gun in her mouth. Any morals he once had are lost in the...
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35th Anniversary Of Philippe Petit’s World Trade Center Tightrope Antics
Windows Fanatics (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
Native New Yorkers know to expect the unexpected, but who among them could’ve predicted that a man would stroll between the towers of the World Trade Center? French high-wire walker Philippe Petit did just that on August 7th, 1974. Petit’s success may come as a foregone conclusion, but British filmmaker James Marsh’s pulse-pounding documentary, Man on [...]
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Save LACMA Petition
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 08/04/2009
It won't help but there's a save-LACMA's-film-screening-program petition circulating online that some may want to sign and pass along. The honest truth is that over the last three or four years I've gone to see films at LACMA maybe twice a year, if that. If a Los Angeleno with a fanatical film-loving personality doesn't attend a sophisticated venue like LACMA's more than that, something's wrong. When...
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Liberté, Égalité, Criminalité
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/31/2009
10 Great French Crime Films
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Arrow Films in July/August
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
News: Arrow Films have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of several titles over July and August… 13th July 2009 Brute Force - Directed by Jules Dassin and starring Burt Lancaster in this prison thriller where the men attempt an escape in order to...
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Film classics: Samuel Fuller’s Pickup on South Street
Jabberwock (Free subscription) | 07/05/2009
Richard Widmark must be among the most atypical leading men in 1950s American cinema. He isn’t associated with a distinct screen persona and there’s nothing “starry” or especially charismatic about him: thin lips, a pallid face, slicked-back hair and a distracted expression that’s occasionally punctuated by a cocky grin, as if he unexpectedly remembered that funny things...
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The Code
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
The major disadvantage of being a DVD critic (compared to your textbook film critic) is that we’re the ones stuck reviewing this straight-to-video muck hurled out each week. But we’re in good company this week, because although it wasn’t released theatrically in the States, the critics in Turkey and Romania also had to sit through The Code. The story: veteran thief Keith Ripley (Morgan...
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This Week on TCM (6-15-09 to 6-21-09)
The Moviezzz Blog (Free subscription) | 06/16/2009
Monday, June 15 Clarence Brown 6 a.m. Anna Karenina (1935) 8 a.m. Anna Christie (1930) 9:45 a.m. Wife vs. Secretary (1936) 11:15 a.m. The White Cliffs of Dover (1944) 1:30 p.m. Angels in the Outfield (1951) 3:30 p.m. National Velvet (1944) 5:45 p.m. The Yearling (1946) Elia Kazan 8 p.m. Elia Kazan: A Director’s Journey (1995) 9:30 p.m. On the Waterfront (1954) 11:30 p.m. East of Eden (1955) 1:30...