The Big Book of Noir
 Amazon.com Review: Penzler Pick, December 1999: It took the French, with their word for "dark," to give an identity to an important mystery sub-genre. Something more than hard-boiled, noir--whether in film, book, or television--must also speak [... more]
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Breathless | AEC One Stop
Release Date: 11/20/2001 Genre: Foreign Film [Dub Or Subtitle] Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Pierre Melville, Liliane David Director: Jean-Luc Godard [... more]
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Le Samoura - Widescreen | AEC One Stop
Long considered a classic of European film noir, this existential gangster drama from French director Jean-Pierre Melville was released in the United States only in a severely truncated, re-edited, and overdubbed version entitled The Godson. Thirty years [... more]
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Bob Le Flambeur
A dapper French gambler plans to retire on a casino safe's contents. Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. [... more]
$24.90
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Le Deuxihme Souffle
With his customary restraint and ruthless attention to detail, director Jean-Pierre Melville follows the parallel tracks of French underworld criminal Gu (the inimitable Lino Ventura), escaped from prison and roped into one last robbery, and the suave [... more]
$27.20
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Les Enfants Terribles (Criterion Collection)
Writer Jean Cocteau and director Jean-Pierre Melville joined forces for this elegant adaptation of Cocteau's immensely popular, wicked novel about the wholly unholy relationship between a teenage brother and sister. Elisabeth (a remarkable Nicole [... more]
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Silence of the Sea / Le Silence de la Mer: A Novel of ...
Subtle and excellent: "Mais c'est la dernière! Nous ne nous batterons plus: nous nous marierons!" But it's the last (war). We will no longer fight each other; We will marry each other! So says Werner von Ebrennac in this subtly moving [... more]
$15.95
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City of Glass (The New York Trilogy, Vol 1)
Dressed Up Postmodern Metafiction: The first book of Auster's New York trilogy was originally published in 1985, and in 1994 was adapted into this graphic novel. I've never read the original (or any of the other parts of the trilogy), so I can't comment [... more]
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City of Glass
Dressed Up Postmodern Metafiction: The first book of Auster's New York trilogy was originally published in 1985, and in 1994 was adapted into this graphic novel. I've never read the original (or any of the other parts of the trilogy), so I can't comment [... more]
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The Classic French Cinema, 1930-1960
Amazon.com Review: In the years 1930-1960, the French film industry made the transition to sound, fell under the administration of the Nazis, flourished after the war, and paved the way for the French "New Wave." And though major filmmakers [... more]
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A Gun for Sale (Penguin Classics)
Flawed, but frequently sensational early Greene.: 'A gun for sale' is considered a minor Graham Greene work, two years before his acknowledged first masterpiece, 'Brighton Rock'. Admittedly, the book is hugely flawed - the plot becomes increasingly [... more]
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Les Enfants Terribles (French Edition)
Let's blame Cocteau: This is a film I wish Jean-Pierre Melville never made. It's so removed from his milieu that I can't help being reminded of Alfred Hitchcock's involvement with the romantic comedy, MR AND MRS SMITH. It seems, however, that Melville [... more]
$8.95
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