Zou Zou and Princess Tam Tam are among the most bittersweet musical comedies ever made.
The first international edition of the Noir City film festival in six years showcases the diversity and malleability of noir.
Becker’s vivid, exacting portrait of aging gangsters is given a long overdue upgrade to high definition, coupled with several insightful extras.
Kino’s Blu-ray gifts us with a beautiful transfer of a classic of French poetic realism.
Kino presents Verneuil’s compelling caper film in two newly restored versions, along with some top-notch extras.
Like Port of Shadows, the film establishes a versatile visual palette that exerted a significant influence over classical noir.
A Pig Across Paris is an exaggerated epic of traditional buddy-comedy trappings wrapped in a picaresque farce.
In Carné’s tale of helplessness and despair, solitude is the only existential guarantee
Lionsgate’s superb disc will wipe away any salty tears that it doesn’t carry the Criterion logo.
A working-class hero is something to be in Jean Grémillon’s films from the 1940s.
One factor behind Grand Illusion’s lasting power is the strength of its ensemble cast.
The film illustrates not merely Ophüls’s unparalleled sense of flow and texture, but also his proto-feminism.
Le Plaisir illustrates not merely Max Ophüls’s unparalleled sense of flow and texture, but also his proto-feminism.
Not a bad finale for one of French cinema’s oddest couples.
To cast Jean Gabin and Alain Delon side by side is to invite a crash course in French cinema history.
The film clings to the honeyed morbidity of sultry music and smart talk, yet it also puts the sting into an archetypally Gallic l’amour fou.