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Cabin Fever DVDs: Lars Nilsen
Screens Blog January 6, 2010
by Marc Savlov
Description: Film rental picks for a frigid forecast
"...3.) Pierrot le Fou "… by Jean-Luc Godard, which also takes place in a very tropical area and also doesn't make a lot of sense, but then again I'm not looking for that right now because I'm really, really cold. You've got the beautiful Anna Karina and the charming Jean-Paul Belmondo, and then there's that great scene at the gas station where he gets in a fistfight that just goes on and on."..."
DVD Watch
Screens Review November 7, 2008
by Raoul Hernandez
Description: Cowboy gangster Jean-Pierre Melville almost always chose to die and almost always violently
"...Thieves, murderers, fugitives, solitary men coming into contact with one another to reassert their honor and betray their friends, Melville's heroes usually get Le Deuxième Souffle's "second wind," but to call it fleeting ascribes time too much elasticity. Le Doulos' B-grade noir heist film piles up bodies faster than Jean-Paul Belmondo can drop a dime or get Richard Widmark on a dame, but Belmondo never quite achieves full focus of character..."
DVD Watch
Screens Review June 20, 2008
by Raoul Hernandez
Description: Lions Gate lionizes two icons – one French, one Italian – in two new collections
"...Classe Tous Risques (Criterion, $29.95): Nail-biting noir rivets Claude Sautet's 1960 directorial debut to another trademark Lino Ventura (Army of Shadows) performance as a gangster on the run with his children. A pre-Breathless Jean-Paul Belmondo mans up as his last friend...."
Geek Out!
Screens Story December 14, 2007
by Josh Rosenblatt
Description: At an age when most men have resigned themselves to their accomplishments and failures, Godard is still out for blood
"...The set opens with Godard's most famous picture, 1960's Breathless, which, by this point, has moved beyond its reputation as a mere revolutionary artistic masterpiece and entered into the rarefied air of the cultural touchstone, where images become part of the collective consciousness. It's a remarkable thing when a piece of art that was once considered the height of aesthetic insolence and rebellion develops into a cultural given, but one look at Jean Seberg in her New York Herald Tribune T-shirt or the defiantly cocked angle of Jean-Paul Belmondo's fedora, and it's clear that Breathless is a film that exists free of time and context..."
DVD Watch
Screens Review February 10, 2006
by Spencer Parsons
Description: Reacquaint yourself with one Paul Walker, the Jean-Paul Belmondo of the New Preposterousness
"...My friend Lee refers to Paul Walker as the Jean-Paul Belmondo of the New Preposterousness, a movement in action cinema pioneered by auteurs like Michael Bay and the screenwriter Matt Johnson (of this film and the astonishing Torque) in which the purity of outrageous spectacle is so confounding to plot, psychology, and physics as to lift off into giddily poetic abstraction. Characterized by vacant eyes, cheerfully bewildered mien, and a distinctly floppy carriage, tripping and bounding about the frame in a uniform of skater T-shirts and cargo shorts, the Paul Walker presence (at zenith in 2 Fast 2 Furious and nadir in Timeline) becomes the ultimate expression of the style through subversion so total as to push beyond any imaginable absurdity..."
The Good Thief
Film Review April 18, 2003
by Marc Savlov
Description: A loose retelling of Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1955 exercise in film-noir aesthetics, Bob le Flambeur, The Good Thief will play like a soothing balm to cineastes reared on Jean-Paul Belmondo and... 
by Marc Savlov
"...Starring: Nick Nolte, Tchéky Karyo, Saïd Taghmaoui, Nutsa Kukhianidze, Gérard Darmon, Marc Lavoine, Emir Kusturica, Mark Polish and Michael Polish. A loose retelling of Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1955 exercise in film-noir aesthetics, Bob le Flambeur, The Good Thief will play like a soothing balm to cineastes reared on Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, not to mention Roger Duchesne, the original inveterate gambler Bob, here played by Nick Nolte..."
Burnt Money
Film Review February 8, 2002
by Marc Savlov
Description: Fusillades of lead and freshets of gore: that's what love is made of in this Argentinian crime story about two gay bank robbers affectionately called “the Twins.” Cupid's quiver also... 
by Marc Savlov
When Brendan Met Trudy
Film Review May 11, 2001
by Marc Savlov
Description: Irish novelist Roddy Doyle is perhaps one of the luckiest authors working today. Beginning with The Commitments in 1991, he's had three of his already popular (and populist) novels brought...
by Marc Savlov
"...They do, and the film promptly spends an abundance of time putting them in a series of nutty, cinematic homages. In short order, Brendan is seen as William Holden in Sunset Blvd., Gene Wilder in The Producers, Jean-Paul Belmondo in Breathless, and many more..."
Video Reviews
Screens Review November 17, 2000
by Louis Black
"...Le Doulos aka The Finger ManD: Jean-Pierre Melville (1963); with Serge Reggiani, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Desailly, Marcel Cuvelier, René Lefevre, Aimé de March. Jean-Pierre Melville is the transition figure between the classic French cinema, American film noir, and the French New Wave. He began directing in the mid-Forties and continued into the Seventies..."
Short Cuts
Screens Column September 8, 2000
by Marc Savlov
"...JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO, IN BREATHLESS, IN THE FINAL SCENE DEPT.: "What?!" I hear you say. That's what I look like right now..."
Marie Baie Des Anges
Film Review August 7, 1998
by Marc Savlov
Description: Tout le monde loves a good pout, and Marie Baie Des Anges does not disappoint. Neither the adolescent strutting of 15-year-old Lolita-in-training Marie (Giocante) nor the reptilian swagger of her...
by Marc Savlov
"...Neither the adolescent strutting of 15-year-old Lolita-in-training Marie (Giocante) nor the reptilian swagger of her young partner in crime Orso (Malgras) has much to say about anything other than the merest hint of teenage angst, but boy, do they look good doing nothing. Pradal's film plays like an homage to the nouvelle vague of Godard and Truffaut (and, at times, Rohmer), with Malgras nailing the essence of a youthful Jean-Paul Belmondo and Giocante carrying off the role of every French starlet since Jean Seberg..."
Scanlines
Screens Story February 21, 1997
"...Les Miserables
D: Claude Lelouch; with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Boujenah, Alessandra
Martines, Salome, Annie Girardot, Philippe Leotard.
VHS Home Video
Vulcan Video, 609 W. 29th..."
Film Reviews
News Story November 17, 1995
"...LES MISERABLESD: Claude Lelouch; Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Boujenah, Alessandra Martines, An
nie Girardot, Clementine Celairie, Philippe Leotard, Rufus. (R, 174 min.) Not reviewed at press time..."
Classe Tous Risques
Film Review
Description: Newly restored print of forgotten French crime stunner starring two of the French cinema's greatest male icons. The story invovles a Milan payroll heist, and is filmed on the streets,...
"...Directed by: Claude Sautet. Starring: Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo and Jean-Paul Belmondo..."
A Woman Is a Woman
Film Review
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: A revival of this early Godard feature provides a hint of the heady flavor that marked the works of the French New Wave. The movie shows Godard re-evaluating the musical...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard. Starring: Jean-Claude Brialy, Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo..."
Movie Testin'
Film Review
Description: A loose retelling of Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1955 exercise in film noir aesthetics Bob Le Flambeur, The Good Thief will play like a soothing balm to cineastes reared on Jean-Paul Belmondo...
"...A loose retelling of Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1955 exercise in film noir aesthetics Bob Le Flambeur, The Good Thief will play like a soothing balm to cineastes reared on Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, not to mention Roger Duchesne, the original inveterate gambler Bob, here played by Nick Nolte. To the cineplex-going mainstream, Jordan’s film will likely pass without a blip on their radar, which is a shame because it’s one of Jordan’s best films, and almost certainly in Nolte’s top two percentile..."
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