Imagine what it would have been like if, upon its release, The Godfather had been deemed a failure and sank into oblivion. No one would look at it or think of it until nearly 40 years later, when it ...

Bennett is teaming with Studiocanal and Patrick Melrose producer Two Cities Television on Army of Shadows, loosely based on Jean Pierre Melville’s movie starring Lino Ventura and Joseph Kessel’s 1943 ...

Film Forum is presenting a restored version of Jean-Pierre Melville’s “Army of Shadows” (1969) on the heels of its retrospective dedicated to the revered director. By many lights, this late film is ...

Ronan Bennett is heading back to U.K. network Channel 4 for the first time since his breakout hit “Top Boy.” The BAFTA-winning writer and showrunner, most recently known for creating hit TV shows “The ...

As arguably the most famous French film never to be distributed in the U.S., Jean-Pierre Melville's 1969 "Army of Shadows" has long had a special mystique, and its debut here after 37 years of waiting ...

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I'm doomed, do you hear, doomed, doomed, doomed! But that's okay. You know why? Because you're doomed, doomed, doomed, too! The universality of doom is, of course, the philosophical first position in ...

In 1969, celebrated French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville (Bob le Flambeur, Le Samouraï) released Army of Shadows, a bleak World War II epic that follows a small group of men involved in the French ...

Led by a short, rotund man who carries a briefcase and speaks as if conserving his last reserves of emotion, the heroes of Army of Shadows engage in little of what counts for action these days. And ...

Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville (1969). Jean-Pierre Melville fully achieved his notion of the sublime by employing the methodical suspense, cosmic fatalism, and grim solitude of his gangster films to his ...

Melville is better known for his terse, atmospheric gangster thrillers—so it’s maybe understandable that this epic drama about the French Resistance plays out more like a terse, atmospheric gangster ...