The heist film has long been a purveyor of cinematic cool, from Michael Mann's Heat, to Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven. Yet, the champion of all heist films belongs to a film made decades before the ...

Jack is a filmmaker, screenwriter, and novelist with a passion for the entertainment industry. After graduating from film school, he devotes most of his free time to directing short films or writing ...

When I first saw Jean-Pierre Melville’s French crime drama “Le Cercle Rouge” (“The Red Circle”) decades ago, in a significantly truncated version that was circulating then, I found it to be a unique ...

”Le Cercle Rouge” is the antidote to every square tough-guy caper you’ve ever seen, and the inspiration for many great ones. It is an existential imperative to seek out a showing and burn rubber to ...

The epigram that opens Jean-Pierre Melville's 1970 policier Le Cercle Rouge explains the title (translation: "The Red Circle") as a Buddhist principle on predestination, stating simply that all men ...