Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...

The undisputed star director of French noir is Jean-Pierre Melville. The writer and director helmed some of cinema's coolest and most thrilling films that blended the best of Hollywood noir tropes ...

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 ...

A screening room at the Cinemas St Andre des Arts movie theater in Paris (Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP) Lost in Frenchlation - the cinema club that screens French films with English subtitles - has a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...