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The undisputed star director of French noir is Jean-Pierre Melville. The writer and director helmed some of cinema's coolest and most thrilling films that blended the best of Hollywood noir tropes ...
The Day of the Jackal showrunner Ronan Bennett is reimagining 1969 war movie Army of Shadows for Channel 4 and Canal+, ...
The French Jewish film director Jean-Pierre Melville (born Grumbach; 1917–1973), famous for films about crime and France’s wartime Résistance, is being rediscovered by cinema addicts.
Finally, *Army of Shadows* (1969), is another masterpiece, Melville’s most personal movie, and most devastating: an unblinking account of a Resistance unit who put aside all human feeling to ...
Bennett is teaming with Studiocanal and Patrick Melrose producer Two Cities Television on Army of Shadows, loosely based on Jean Pierre Melville’s movie starring Lino Ventura and Joseph Kessel’s 1943 ...
Like all of Jean-Pierre Melville's best films, Le Cercle Rouge has a breathless, nearly airless consistency. From its opening scene, a daring escape from a speeding locomotive, the movie wraps ...