Indranil Chakraborty·Oct 21Katukutu Buro: The Making of an Indian Film NoirHow Ujaan Ganguly’s Bengali film invites us to look beyond genre, towards the transformation of cinematic influences into an Indian…
Salman Al Farisi·Aug 1Le Cercle Rouge: The Circle Has Already Been DrawnHow Melville turns a French heist movie into a discussion of fate, masculinity, and human freedom.
MERUTTA·May 14Alain Delon: The Films That Turned Him Into a LegendAlain Delon was not simply an actor of rare beauty and magnetic presence. He was an artist of inner tragedy, a man who brought into the…
MERUTTA·Jan 30Alain Delon and Jean-Pierre MelvilleSilence, solitude, and cinema at the edge of human presence
InSilly Little Dictionary!byAvi Kotzer·Aug 19, 2022Blast from the past!I connect today’s Spelling Bee puzzle with a column from June
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Jon Partridge·Apr 29, 2022Criterion Review: LE CERCLE ROUGE [4K-UHD]A gritty and gripping French crime thriller from Jean-Pierre Melville
Colin Edwards·Dec 9, 2021‘Le Samouraï’ or — “Brim”-ming with Style?The plot to Jean-Pierre Melville’s ‘Le Samouraï’ (1967) is so simple it could be written down on the back of a packet of Gauloises. Yet…
Colin Edwards·Dec 3, 2020‘Un Flic’ or — If Christopher Nolan Had Directed an Episode of ‘Police Squad’?!The opening scene is stunning and pure Melville. It is a lesson in masterful filmmaking that would leave other directors slack-jawed with…
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