AFFAIRE BOUTBOUL (2/3) - Le 27 décembre 1985, l'avocat Jacques Perrot est tué sur le palier de son cabinet parisien. Les ...

Released in 1952 and 1954 to little fanfare, Jacques Becker's idiosyncratic crime films Casque D'Or and Touchez Pas Au Grisbi are like a reverse image of the gritty hood melodramas made in Warner ...

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BERLIN -- Nearing 80, French new wave director Jacques Rivette continues to display a fine touch with this intimate tale about the games lovers play taken to extremes. By Ray Bennett, The Associated ...

Debussy died in 1918. A century later, his music may at first appear more decorative than radical. The shock of the new is hard to feel at a distance, but as Stephen Walsh observes, we expect the ...

French gangster films of the ’50s tend to be more doom-laden than kinetic, following an edgy trajectory wherein battles of wits and wills lead to a catastrophic outcome. Jacques Becker’s Touchez Pas ...

JACQUES Rivette, who turned 80 last Saturday, was among that august group of Cahiers du Cinéma critics at the forefront of the stimulating Nouvelle Vague movement when they turned to making their own ...

Jacques Becker, who did such a fine job in painting the turn-of-the-century apache milieu in Casque D'Or, brings the same care and psychological overtones to a film on the modern racketeer element.

The middle age bon-vivant Max is a former gangster and close friend of his partner Riton. They have stolen eight gold bars of 12 kg each that worth 50-million francs and Max has kept them hidden for ...

Jean Gabin is at his most wearily romantic as aging gangster Max le Menteur in the Jacques Becker gem Touchez pas au grisbi (Hands Off the Loot!). Having pulled off the heist of a lifetime, Max looks ...

The French title of Jacques Becker’s 1953 gangster thriller translates as “Hands Off the Loot,” but a much better English title used for this film is Honor Among Thieves. Jean Gabin wasn’t yet 50 when ...