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 ...

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The Day of the Jackal showrunner Ronan Bennett is reimagining 1969 war movie Army of Shadows for Channel 4 and Canal+, shifting the story from the French World War Two resistance to a near-future ...

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If your favorite part of Jean-Pierre Melville’s Army Of Shadows, or the 1943 Joseph Kessel novel that inspired the film, was the World War II French Resistance stuff, you’ll be happy to know that none ...

The opening shot of Jean-Pierre Melville's 1969 lost masterpiece Army Of Shadows follows a procession of German troops as they march down the Champs-Elysées, a daily ritual that enforced feelings of ...

Jean-Pierre Melville's economical and boldly independent approach to filmmaking laid the groundwork for what was to become the French New Wave of the 1960s. Yet his films -- in terms of both style and ...

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 ...