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 ...

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 ...

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 master of hyperbolic criminal coolness beloved by the nouvelle vague, Jean-Pierre Melville made 13 features in a 27-year career, but only a handful of his iconic, pretzel-twisted, Heideggerian ...

Tonight at 5 PM, the Gene Siskel Film Center presents a screening of Jean-Pierre Melville’s final work, Un Flic (aka Dirty Money), as part of its French Classics Conserved program. I have nothing ...

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 ...

Some movies you see because you want to. Others you see because you have to. For anyone who is interested in film noir, Jean-Pierre Melville’s Bob le Flambeur (1955) is one of the latter. Just as John ...

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 ...

There is still plenty of time to enjoy “Noirvember” with a seemingly endless cache of film noir to fill it , but don’t just stop at films made in the United States. Noir made a lasting impact on ...