The Dangerous World of Jean-Paul Belmondo

AFS explores the action star beyond Breathless

"...of a man grappling with love and war in Jean-Pierre Melville's unsung classic of occupied France. Both films utilize..."

July 6, 2018 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Le Samourai

Fedoras and trench coats. Film noir in cool blues and greens. Melville's 1967 film is the real deal.

"...Directed by: Jean-Pierre Melville. Starring: Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon and..."

May 30, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Army of Shadows

Although made in 1969, this French masterpiece by Jean-Pierre Melville is receiving its first stateside release.

"...Directed by: Jean-Pierre Melville. Starring: Lino Ventura, Simone Signoret, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Les Enfants Terribles

"...Directed by: Jean-Pierre Melville. Starring: Jacques Bernard, Renee Cosima, Edouard Dermithe and..."

April 23, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Le Doulos & Le Deuxième Souffle

Cowboy gangster Jean-Pierre Melville almost always chose to die and almost always violently

"...at birth: to choose his own death." Cowboy gangster Jean-Pierre Melville almost always chose to die and almost always..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

'Les Enfants Terribles'

"...source material, which Cocteau swore couldn't be interpreted onscreen, Jean-Pierre Melville's thick skin might just have been accessorized with..."

July 27, 2007 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Hot Movie Previews

Sneaking Into Summer

"...D: Olivier Assayas; with Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Nathalie Richard, Antonie Basler...."

May 23, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jean-Pierre Melville's Army of Shadows

"...Arriving as it did between two of Jean-Pierre Melville's greatest triumphs, Le Samouraï and Le Cercle Rouge,..."

May 4, 2007 Screens Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Le Doulos

"...Le Doulos aka The Finger ManD: Jean-Pierre Melville (1963); with Serge Reggiani, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Desailly,..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Screens Review by Louis Black

Gems for the Taking

The Austin Film Society programs French films noirs

"...French noir series would be complete without the great Jean-Pierre Melville, and AFS has programmed two of his finest..."

March 27, 2015 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

A Prophet

This riveting French film is the best prison/crime saga to come along in quite a while.

"...both Scarfaces, The Godfathers, Oz, the gangster films of Jean-Pierre Melville, and A Clockwork Orange in terms of its..."

March 19, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rififi

This seminal caper film, which is also a quintessential film noir and French gangster classic of the Fifties, is directed by Dassin, who became an American expatriate after being named as a communist during the HUAC hearings.

"...novel by Le Breton (also the source writer for Jean-Pierre Melville's Bob le Flambeur), the film was directed by..."

April 25, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Flame & Citron

In this Danish film, two men track down and kill Nazi collaborators in the waning days of the German occupation.

"...Stengade, Peter Mygind and Hanns Zischler. Admittedly influenced by Jean-Pierre Melville's Army of Shadows and freighted with historical and..."

Nov. 13, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Clouzot and Melville ride the old wave

"...Jean-Pierre Melville's oeuvre isn't exactly chock-full of pratfalls, but the..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

How to Enjoy a Month in Paris

Eight-part film series, Summer in Paris, screens in August

"...this week (screening Thursday, August 3) is Le Samouraï, Jean-Pierre Melville’s existential masterpiece starring film icon Alain Delon as..."

Aug. 2, 2017 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

That Old Revival Spirit

Testifying About Movies

"...other Tarkovsky films; look also for such screenings as Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samourai (7/11-17), Vittorio De Sica's The Garden..."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

'Les Enfants Terribles'

Philip Glass opera gives new meaning to sibling rivalry

"...in 1929 and was adapted to the screen by Jean-Pierre Melville in 1950. When Philip Glass paid tribute to..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

His Films, His Way

Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It

"...the Akron-born, NYC-bred bastard son of Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Melville (with uncles Yasujiro Ozu and John Cassavetes hiding..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Shortcuts

"...& Oct. 30, 7pm) is a rare screening of Jean-Pierre Melville's screen version of Jean Cocteau's play Les Enfants..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dial Code Santa Claus Is This Year's Christmas Surprise

You better watch out for this Pere Noël

"...(Pépé le Moko), George Franju (Eyes Without a Face), Jean-Pierre Melville (Le Samouraï), and Henri-Georges Clouzot (Diabolique). "They had..."

Dec. 21, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Chronicle Recommends: War Movies

Movie picks for Memorial Day

"...the resistance under Nazi-occupied France during World War II, Jean-Pierre Melville's film follows a rotating cast of characters seeking..."

May 25, 2018 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two: The Best of Austin

A concept in search of an author; characters in search of a form; memory in search of meaning

"...Jean Pierre Melville – a traveling minstrel..."

Oct. 17, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Brand Upon the Brain!

Another ambitious, audacious entry in the canon of Canadian auteur Guy Maddin

"...flicks from the French master of the crime caper, Jean-Pierre Melville (Le Samouraï, Le Cercle Rouge), are also receiving..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Screens Review by Wells Dunbar

Alain Delon: 5-Film Collection

Former French marine and Sinatra-esque tough guy Alain Delon burned froid et chaud with the best of them

"...this sublime blank slate second only to the great Jean-Pierre Melville's Delon-shot crime troika: Le Samouraï (1967), Le Cercle..."

May 2, 2008 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Cinema's Labyrinth

The year in film, 2006

"...was not released here until 2006 and shows that Jean-Pierre Melville packed an emotional punch with this story of..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Devil & Daniel Webster

Numbers 215 and 218 of the Criterion Collection DVD series were more celebrated recently, Roman Polanski's Knife in the Water and Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge, yet the unheralded No. 214 was the true devil in the woodpile.

"...celebrated recently, Roman Polanski's Knife in the Water and Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge, yet the unheralded No. 214..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Good Show

It was a good year -- not a great one -- for the Toronto International Film Festival.

"...favorites with The Good Thief, a wonderful reimagining of Jean-Pierre Melville's noirish classic Bob le Flambeur. Nick Nolte thoroughly..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten