The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
BFI, retail Night and the City is the stand-out title here, a top-quality example of the genre with the unusual feature that the mean streets through which smalltime hustler Richard Widmark plies his trade are the still-familiar ones of postwar London. Like his lead character, Jules Dassin, whose direction is exhilarating, was on the run – from the McCarthy witchhunt in Hollywood. He's best-known...
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
USA Feature Film Director: Jules Dassin Writers: Richard Brooks, Robert Patterson Cinematographer: William Daniels Composer: Miklós Rózsa Cast: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Sam Levene, Jeff Corey, John Hoyt, Jack Overman, Roman Bohnen The inmates of cell R17 at Westgate Penitentiary - ruled over by a benevolent warden and a sadistic head guard - fed-up with their ill-treatment,...
watch movies online for free full movie downloads (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
#1 YOUTUBE : Full Movie Directed by Jules Dassin Written by Doane R. Hoag Based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe Starring Joseph Schildkraut Roman Bohnen Music by Sol Kaplan Cinematography Paul Vogel Editing by Adrienne Fazan Distributed by MGM Release date(s) October 25, 1941 Running time 20 minutes Country United States Language English
Woody Haut's Blog (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Heartbreak & Vine Film Festival Femmes Fatales Googie Withers The great Googie Withers in Night and the City, directed by Jules Dassin in 1950. With Richard Widmark, Herbert Lom, Gene Tierney, etc.. An underrated film, but which still does not do justice to Gerald Kersh's great novel. Now if only someone would adapt Fowler's End or Prelude to an Uncertain Midnight.
Movie Talk (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
What better way to spend the coming winter nights than with a very large brandy, a block of choccie, something warm to cuddle up to. Plus, a delicious film noir in all its black and white gloriousness. This new BFI box set sees four classic titles that don’t often [...]
CAPES & FORESTS (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Night and the city - Jules Dassin (1950)
Jabberwock (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Watched my DVD of Jules Dassin’s prison film Brute Force last week (and before you ask, I had no idea then that Madhur Bhandarkar’s latest exercise in social awareness, Jail , was about to be released). This is a very gripping movie, right up there with I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang and Cool Hand Luke in its genre. It’s widely seen as a commentary on the brutality of prison life...
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Jay-Z | MySpace Video Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3 single “Empire State of Mind” is inescapable in New York, blaring from car stereos and even Yankee Stadium, where the hometown hero performed the track with Alicia Keys last week. Now the pair have debuted the video for their NYC love letter on MySpace Music. The clip was filmed [...]
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
News: The BFI have announced the UK DVD release of three box-set collections in November 2009. These sets package together existing releases for the holiday season and are outlined below… 2nd November 2009 The Jacques Tati Collection - £39.99 RRP - J...
giallo fever (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
The giallo's deterritorialisation of the Hollywood thriller is, however, less pronounced than the spaghtti western's deterritorialisation of the Hollywood western. The obvious explanation for this is that whereas the thriller was indigenous to most countries in one form or another, the western was more exclusively American. It it is true that the figure of the cowboy has been compared with the European...
battle royale with cheese (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
When Quentin Tarantino was writing his debut feature Reservoir Dogs , the video store clerk sought inspiration by watching some of the classics of the crime genre, including The Taking of Pelham 123, The Killing and Jules Dassin’s 1955 heist thriller Rififi. Just as Tarantino’s film went on to inspire a generation of filmmakers and spawn a host of imitations, Dassin’s Rififi set the...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Obituary: Producer made headlines in Paramount lawsuit -- Producer and literary agent Alain Bernheim, who famously sued Paramount with Art Buchwald, died of bacterial meningitis Oct. 3 in Paris. He was 86.
Day for Night (Free subscription) | 21/08/2009
I really enjoy French crime films: Jean-Pierre Melville, Jules Dassin, etc. While Mesrine does not seem to be as philosophically rich as Melville's films it does not lack subtleties that encourage discovering why this man turned into such a monster. At first he seems incapable of harming women, and then he viciously beats his wife and puts a gun in her mouth. Any morals he once had are lost in the...
Windows Fanatics (Free subscription) | 07/08/2009
Native New Yorkers know to expect the unexpected, but who among them could’ve predicted that a man would stroll between the towers of the World Trade Center? French high-wire walker Philippe Petit did just that on August 7th, 1974. Petit’s success may come as a foregone conclusion, but British filmmaker James Marsh’s pulse-pounding documentary, Man on [...]
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 04/08/2009
It won't help but there's a save-LACMA's-film-screening-program petition circulating online that some may want to sign and pass along. The honest truth is that over the last three or four years I've gone to see films at LACMA maybe twice a year, if that. If a Los Angeleno with a fanatical film-loving personality doesn't attend a sophisticated venue like LACMA's more than that, something's wrong. When...
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