Jean-Pierre Melville's sleek French noir set the template for everyone from Michael Mann to John Woo. Variety’s chief critic explains why a new 4K restoration is essential viewing. The enigmatic title ...
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 ...
Werner von Ebrennac is among the more vexing Francophiles in the history of cinema; among the most naive, as well. He’s a lieutenant in the armed forces of Nazi Germany, the Wehrmacht, and has been ...
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 ...
French production-distribution-sales powerhouse Studiocanal, which holds one of the largest film libraries in the world with some 9,000 titles, has completed its Jean-Pierre Melville collection with ...
Melville’s penultimate film (it was released in 1969), this World War 2 thriller unfolds at a daringly slow pace, the dialogue pared back to essentials. Melville based his screenplay on a ...