Noir is a style that is often replicated, frequently cited, but very rarely imitated. It’s difficult to find a contemporary film that emulates the features that made that style a permanent fixture in ...

Several new DVDs and videos have a distinct international flavor, showcasing films from France, Russia and even Iceland. New on DVD from Criterion is French director Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1956 ...

SINCE YOU can’t yet buy the DVD for Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven remake (due May 7), why not check out this influential 1956 casino heist flick instead? Debuting on disc April 16, Jean-Pierre ...

The international transactions involved in "Bob le Flambeur" are mind-boggling. It is French. It is film noir. The French made up the term "film noir." However, they made it up to describe American ...

Can’t wait to check out 'Bob le Flambeur' on any device? Below, you’ll find platforms and services with rental, purchase, and subscription options, all in one place. As of now in the US, 'Bob le ...

(R) 3 1/2 stars Neil Jordan’s shabby-chic, moody new film The Good Thief is a loose remake of the classic 1955 French heist movie Bob le Flambeur, but it makes more sense to talk about The Good Thief ...

The heist film is not evolving, at least not much, and for reasons that are not hard to point to, this is a fine thing. A recent spate of heist movies -- the remake of “The Italian Job,” “The Good ...

Don’t Miss a Moment. Join 30,000 locals who stay current on San Antonio news, culture, and events. Get our free newsletters in your inbox three times a week. Why does everybody think that the French ...

Some movies you see because you want to. Others you see because you have to. For anyone who is interested in film noir, Jean-Pierre Melville’s Bob le Flambeur (1955) is one of the latter. Just as John ...

Bob le Flambeur opens with a shot of Sacre Coeur, the crypto-Byzantine church that dominates northern Paris, identified by the narrator as representing heaven. Then the camera watches a cable car ease ...

This light, breezy 1955 heist film is probably the least characteristic movie Jean-Pierre Melville ever made. It replaces his sternly fatalistic philosophizing with a benign, genuinely comic spirit, ...

Like Rififi, another heist film based on the work of Auguste Le Breton, Bob Le Flambeur is hard to watch without hearing echoes of the many films it influenced, from Ocean's 11 (either version) to ...