Some movies are famous for a kiss; some for a battle scene. Jules Dassin’s great 1955 “Rififi” became a ’50s French crime movie legend for its half-hour robbery sequence, an excruciatingly tense scene ...

Ever since its release in 1955, the French crime thriller “Rififi” has been celebrated for the 30-minute jewel heist segment that could be the finest thing of its kind ever put on film. But this ...

With the releases of Thief and Rififi, The Criterion Collection has released two classics of the crime/film noir genre. Where Jules Dassin’s Rififi represents a perfect distillation of the classic ...

The best of all heist movies, Jules Dassin’s tough-minded clockwork thriller Rififi, from 1955, is also one of the great films about process, about prepping for and grinding through small challenges, ...

You’ve got two chances this week to see Rififi on the big screen at the Loft Cinema: Sunday, June 12, at 1 p.m. and Tuesday, June 14, at 7 p.m. Both screenings are free, although The Loft does suggest ...

Scott Steindorff’s Stone Village Pictures has acquired remake rights to the 1955 French heist classic “Rififi” and will make a contemporized version starring Al Pacino and directed by Harold Becker.

Troubled comedy hotspot Rififi (also known as Cinema Classics) will close tonight due to “an impasse with the landlord,” who is now “asking for substantially more money,” according to Matt Ruby's blog ...

Jules Dassin, the blacklisted American filmmaker who was a master of film noir, directing such classics as “Brute Force,” “The Naked City” and “Rififi,” died Monday in an Athens hospital. He was 96.