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ARMY OF SHADOWS (2 DISCS)
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Set in German-occupied Lyons during WWII, this tragic, highly-atmospheric picture concerns a French Resistance fighter (Lino Ventura) who is betrayed by an informer and sent to a prison camp, where he awaits the Gestapo. Based on Joseph Kessel's novel, Army of Shadows, or The Army in the Shadows, was a personal endeavor for Jean-Pierre Melville, who was a Resistance fighter himself. With Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, and Simone Signoret. "It's here that Melville fully achieved his notion of the sublime, applying Le Samourai's 'empty' compositions and near theatrical blocking, as well as its methodical suspense, cosmic fatalism, and sense of grim solitude, to a subject far closer to his heart" (J. Hoberman, Village Jean-Pierre Melville---France/Italy---1969---145 mins.
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BOB LE FLAMBEUR
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An amazing film noir and a movie that anticipated the French New Wave with its gritty locations, freewheeling camera, jump cuts and a musical jazz score. Roger Duchesne plays high-stakes gambler Bob, newly released from prison, who plots to rob the casino at Deauville. Shot between dusk and dawn in Pigalle, this is the quintessential "city at night" film, with Bob representing the kind of gangster who still has a moral code. Great cinematography by Henri Decae. "The cinematic birth of cool" (J. Hoberman, The Village Voice). In French with English subtitles. Jean-Pierre Melville---France---1955---97 mins.
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DIRTY MONEY (DELON)
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French film icons Alain Delon and Catherine Deneuve star in the final film by the great Jean-Pierre Melville (Le Samourai, Bob le Flambeur). Melville again finds thematic richness in the gangster genre with this tale o f a morose detective (Delon), a brilliant thief (Richard Crenna), and the woman they both love (Deneuve). "A bitter meditation on disenchantment and defeat, as glacial and hermetic as Deneuve's face" (Chris Peachment, Time Out). In French with English subtitles. Jean-Pierre Melville---France---1972---98 mins.
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LE CERCLE ROUGE
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Jean-Pierre Melville's tense crime thriller finds two convicts (Alain Delon and Gian-Maria Volonte) conspiring with a corrupt, alcoholic cop (Yves Montand) to pull off an elaborate jewelry store robbery. Melville's elegant direction and great performances from Delon, Montand and Volonte reveal a story of kindred souls brought together through crime and set Le Cercle Rouge apart from the typical heist film. "One of the all-time exercises in cinematic cool" (New York Daily News). In French with English subtitles. Jean-Pierre Melville---France/Italy---1970---140 mins.
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LE DEUXIEME SOUFFLE
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With Le Doulos and Le Samourai, Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Deuxieme Souffle (Second Breath) forms a gangster trilogy that put s a New Wave spin on the classic American genre. Lino Ventura plays a lonely escaped criminal and Paul Meurisse a diligent detective in this thrilling crime movie that culminates in a heist for the cinematic record books. "Drenched with dark romanticism" (Andrew Sarris). In French with optional Jean-Pierre Melville---France---1966---144 mins.
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LE DOULOS
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A complicated thriller of double and triple crosses, beautiful women, and a dark vision of a world in a masterful film noir. Set in the Paris underworld, at the center of which is Jean-Paul Belmondo, a professional informer who maintains his relationship with a police inspector and a burglar just out of jail and afraid he can't hack the criminal life anymore. Le Doulos is famous for its nine-minute single take, brilliant camerawork from Nicolas Hayer, and terrific performances. With Serge Reggiani, Jean Desailly, and Michel Piccoli. In French with English subtitles. Jean-Pierre Melville---France---1962---109 mins.
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LE SAMOURAI (CRITERION)
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Melville's classic film noir masterpiece stars Alain Delon as a cool and mysterious contract killer who lives by a personal code of bushido, moving in and out of shadows in the Parisian rain wearing a trenchcoat and a fedora hiding his eyes. A mythical revenge story with Cathy Rosier as a jazz piano player who witnesses one of his hits but doesn't tell the police. With Nathalie Delon. "The closest thing to a perfect movie that I have ever seen" (John Woo). In French with English subtitles. Jean-Pierre Melville---France---1967---95 mins.
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LEON MORIN, PRIEST (CRITERION)
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Jean-Pierre Melville's 1961 French/Italian co-production is set in Nazi-occupied France, and details the fascinating and complex relationship formed between Barny (Emmanuelle Riva), a passionate, anticlerical communist, and Leon Morin (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a disarming, young priest. Photographed by the great Henri Decae.
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LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES
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A lyrical treatment of Jean Cocteau's perverse tribute to rebellious adolescence. Made in 1950, even today it is one of the most electrifying confrontations of normality by abnormality in the cinema. Paul (Edouard Dermithe) and Elisabeth (Nicole Stephane) are born into such extreme wealth that they are immune to the confines of the real world. Their innocence leads them to crime, incest, and self-destruction. "Almost voluptuous in its evocation of temperament and atmosphere" (Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights at the Movies). In French with English subtitles. Jean-Pierre Melville---France---1950---106 mins.
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