“WHAT KIND OF MAN ARE YOU?” asks jazz club pianist Valérie (Cathy Rosier) of paid assassin Jef Costello (Alain Delon) as they drive together in her black-with-red-leather-interior Chevy Camaro through ...

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 ...

At least Melville was smart enough to focus on showing the “army of shadows” sweat while they waited for the other shoe to drop.

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. It’s a reasonable ...

There’s not an out-and-out loser among his 13 films. Even the least convincing is imbued with density of vision, cinematic stylishness, and some-or-other quiddity that is more than mere diversion. He ...

The film was vilified in France at the time of its release and received sparse distribution elsewhere. Historians peg its poor performance to historical circumstances: Politics, as often happens, got ...

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 ...

Jean-Pierre Grumbach (20 October 1917 – 2 August 1973), known professionally as Jean-Pierre Melville (French: [mɛlvil]), was a French filmmaker. Considered a spiritual father of the French New Wave, ...

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