Showing posts with label Jean Gabin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jean Gabin. Show all posts
Friday, 2 June 2017

The French list .....

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Continuing our Lists theme, 25 essential French flicks we love, from the Fifties to the Seventies, again two maximum from each director ...
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Tuesday, 4 October 2016

Take 2 men - French style.

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Add caption I had never heard of the Delon and Gabin starrer TWO MEN IN TOWN (DEUX HOMME DANS LE VILLE), from 1973. It can't have ...
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Monday, 18 July 2016

MORE French capers .....

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I did a post last week on French gangster flicks, I now find out (thanks, Daryl) that there is a retrospective season in New York until...
Sunday, 10 July 2016

French gangster flicks

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French gangster films of the Fifties and Sixties are often said to be derivative of their American film noirs, but its a genre I can retu...
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Tuesday, 9 June 2015

French Can-Can

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FRENCH CAN-CAN is a delicious pleasure from 1954 .... a visual delight by a major storyteller. This comedy drama from Jean Renoir chroni...
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Friday, 3 October 2014

Delon, Gabin et le Clan des Siciliens

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We like a good French thriller and Henri Verneuil's THE SICLIAN CLAN is certainly a corker. It re-teams, in 1969, Alain Delon and Je...
Saturday, 19 July 2014

The cat's miouw !

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LE CHAT (THE CAT), 1971. A masterclass in screen acting from two of France ’s greats: Jean Gabin and Simone Signoret in this version o...
Tuesday, 29 January 2013

Melodie en sous-sol, 1963

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MELODIE EN SOUS SOL is a gleaming black and white casino heist thriller which looks terrific in Scope and has that early '60s vibe t...
Saturday, 14 May 2011

L'Avventura again & another French flick

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L’AVVENTURA – this Antonioni classic has been screened a few times lately here in the UK and although I have the dvd I keep been drawn back...