Great movie, and great write-up. Apart from the aforementioned Les Diaboliques and Wages of Fear, l also recommend Quai des Orfèvres as well as the unfinished L’Enfer, recently released under the title L’Enfer d’Henri-Georges Clouzot. Fantastic stuff.
Alright, this 20:20 is not a Kubrick movie:
Matt_W
1943
Illumination: A Spotlight Story
Nope. l have never watched it; would you recommend it?
lf so, l will watch it after Paths of Glory (l was dying to join your Kubrick Fest earlier, but was traveling quite a lot the last two months. Great initiative by the way!)
Great Bogart/George Raft proto-noir.
lt’s just been one day, @Navaronegun. Don’t you worry, l haven’t forgotten!
This 60:60 should help:
No, but great guess! (and great movie too).
That’s it - “Card distribution” in the casino on the sign.
lt is indeed Bob le Flambeur, a great Melville movie ('tis a pleonasm), and what l perceive as a love story to Montmartre as well.
@Navaronegun was very close with his Classe Tous Risques guess, which shares innumerable similarities with Melville movies (scenario by Jose Giovanni*, Lino Ventura…). For some reason, l also cannot help but thinking of Kubrick’s The Killing whenever watching it. 1956 was a great year for movies.
l for one am very glad some of Melville movies have already appeared here, as his importance on cinema cannot be understated. His filmography is a perfect one, truly impressive stuff, and he was very influential for many American directors.
*Giovanni was a noted collaborationist, whereas Melville was part of the French Resistance. His very name, Melville, was in fact his Resistance alias
Well, l don’t have much to say about this movie, other than please watch it. And all Melville movies as well (especially Army of Shadows - that’s wonderful). l think many of them are available in the Criterion Collection.
Oh! Did l tell you l love Melville?
The 80:80, with the eponymous character:
The 100:100:
Well done @Charmtrap!
That… seems like a bad idea. You know, with all the, um, Nazis around, and stuff?
l meant his true name was Jean-Pierre Grumbach. His alias was Melville -an homage to Hermann Melville- and he kept it after the war, becoming Jean-Pierre Melville. Plus, l think that probably sounds less “German” than Grumbach to French ears…
Ah, I misread the post above. Very cool to keep your resistance name as your name, and not as foolish as the reverse.
I’ll go ahead and guess that that’s Alison Brie. How about Horse Girl? Haven’t seen it, but she’s in it.
Interesting guess, but not correct.
