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Three Women Abroad
Screens Story March 31, 2006
Description: Tuesdays, April 4 through May 16, Alamo Drafthouse Downtown
"...Zouzou (1934)D: Marc Allégret; with Josephine Baker, Jean Gabin, Pierre Larquey, Yvette Lebon, Illa MeeryMay 2..."
DVD Watch
Screens Review February 17, 2006
by Josh Rosenblatt
Description: Jean Renoir shot it in 1938, just as Hitler's troops were occupying the Sudetenland and Neville Chamberlain and his band of appeasers were bending Europe's back to the whims of the Third Reich. So, you'll forgive him for making such a dark picture.
"...La Bête Humaine stars Renoir favorite Jean Gabin as luckless train conductor Jacques Lantier, who falls in love with a murderer's wife (the impossibly beautiful Simone Simon) and is tormented by violent fevers of the brain. The source of these spells is a mystery; for the sake of the story, it's enough to know that they come around from time to time, and when they do, it's best not to be in the room..."
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Screens Review February 18, 2005
by Raoul Hernandez
Description: The artistic tragedy of Jules Dassin's being
blacklisted in Hollywood after 1949's swiftly
compelling 'Thieves' Highway' is leavened somewhat
by the fact that the 94-year-old director is still around
to partake in the contemporary celebration of his
dashing noir oeuvre
"...Casque D'Or/Touchez Pas au Grisbi (The Criterion Collection): Another Criterion dual release, this one plucking a pair of noir-associated prizes from the all-too-brief filmography of French New Wave precursor and master storyteller/stylist Jacques Becker (1906-1960). Hailed in vintage TV as an actor's director, Becker's two recognized classics befit their national treasures: Simone Signoret bewitching a den of gangsters in Casque D'Or (1952), and noble, dressed-to-kill Jean Gabin as a retiring thief in Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954), aka Hands off the Loot..."
DVD Watch
Screens Review January 21, 2005
by Marrit Ingman
Description: You don't even want to know
"...Touchez Pas au Grisbi (Criterion): At last there's a Criterion DVD of this artful thriller with a seasoned Jean Gabin, a young Jeanne Moreau, one fateful last heist worth a fortune in gold bars, and Jacques Becker's elegantly subdued direction...."
DVD Watch
Screens Review August 6, 2004
by Raoul Hernandez
Description: The Criterion connection, Renoir-style
"...A vehicle for Renoir's friend Ingrid Bergman, Elena began as a parade for famed French General Boulanger (Jean Marais), but did an abrupt about-face when the luminous Swedish actress came aboard. In his introduction to the film, Renoir admits this didn't "help me make a very good movie." The real spectacle here is 1955's delightful French Cancan, starring Renoir's beau ideal Jean Gabin as the man who built Paris' windmill cabaret, Le Moulin Rouge..."
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Screens Review July 16, 2004
by Courtney Fitzgerald
"...Port of Shadows (Criterion): Criterion does no wrong. Extras for Marcel Carné's tribute to poetic realism and the pitfalls of French hitchhiking include interviews with Carné, stars Jean Gabin and Michèle Morgan, and writer Jacques Prévert...."
Grand Illusion
Film Review January 20, 2000
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Unfailingly, this movie by Jean Renoir (son of painter Auguste) earns near-top billing in every cinephile’s list of the greatest films of all time. Called “cinema enemy number one” by...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Jean Renoir. Starring: Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich Von Stroheim, Marcel Dalio, Dita Parlo, Julien Carette and Gaston Modot..."
All Wrapped Up
Screens Story November 26, 1999
by Marjorie Baumgarten, Sarah Hepola, Marcel Meyer and Marc Savlov
Description: From biopics to end-of-day thrillers, a look at the films you'll be standing in line for this Christmas.
"...D: Jean Renoir; with Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim, Marcel Dalio, Dita Parlo, Gaston Modot...."
The Babe
Film Review April 24, 1992
by Nick Barbaro
Description: I've never been a big fan of melodramas, and this movie is almost pure melodrama. I am a big fan of baseball, and this Babe Ruth bio is more than...  
by Nick Barbaro
"...It's a sprawling, expansive performance, and it's hard to imagine any other actor today who could have pulled it off. (And from previous generations? I dunno, how about Jean Gabin in his prime?) Goodman takes Ruth from 18 to 40 years of age, and is totally convincing at both ends..."
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