French director Jean-Pierre Melville is featured this week on the streaming channel FilmStruck. Beginning in the 1940s, he created a body of work that furthers the brooding quality of American film ...
Serge Reggiani in Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le Doulos," released in 1962. (Courtesy Rialto Pictures) If he were alive today, Jean-Pierre Melville, one of the great faces of French cinema, would be 100 ...
1969 drama. Starring Lino Ventura and Simone Signoret. Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. (Not rated. 145 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) With each film that becomes available, the stature of French ...
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 ...
This is the seventh and concluding part to a series of articles on the 2006 Sydney Film Festival, held from June 9-25. Parts one, two, three, four, five and six were published on July 17, 19, 22, 25, ...
Cathal McGuinness is a recent college graduate from Dublin, Ireland. He has been writing short stories and articles from the age of 15. He was awarded the George Dempsey prize for English Prose ...
This is how you should attend the forthcoming retrospective of Jean-Pierre Melville movies at Film Forum: Tell nobody what you are doing. Even your loved ones—especially your loved ones—must be kept ...