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Channel 4 and Canal+ are making an 'Army of Shadows' drama from Ronan Bennett based on the 1969 Jean Pierre Melville movie.
The Day Of The Jackal's Ronan Bennett is reimagining Jean-Pierre Melville's Army Of Shadows as a show about occupied Britain.
Inspired by classic American gangster films, the film depicts a brutal hidden world of suspicion, and the constant threat of ...
Ronan Bennett, the creator of Peacock's The Day of the Jackal, is remaking another beloved movie as a series, this time based ...
Film Forum is presenting a restored version of Jean-Pierre Melville’s “Army of Shadows” (1969) on the heels of its retrospective dedicated to the revered director. By many lights, this late film is ...
A Former French Resistance Member Who Named Himself After His Favorite Author, Jean-Pierre Melville Merits a Retrospective There’s not an out-and-out loser among his 13 films. Even the least ...
Jean-Pierre Melville's lean, elegant 1970 police thriller was restored last year, just as the art deco Silver Theatre was undergoing its own long-awaited facelift.
Alain Delon, the French actor most famous for his roles in the films of New Wave director Jean-Pierre Melville, especially “Le Samourai,” has died. He was 88.
Whatever the idea of “canonized” suggests, few films of such order are quite so well-liked and perpetually referenced (or just ripped-off) as Le Samouraï, leaving me somewhat surprised we haven’t yet ...
He had a prominent role in Jean-Pierre Melville ‘s French Resistance drama “Army of Shadows” (1969), distributed to great acclaim in the U.S. last year, 37 years after the fact.