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Classe tous risques (The Criterion Collection, 6.17.2008) Claude Sautet is best known for subtle interpretations of French bourgeois life in such films as Un coeur en hiver and Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud. Yet the director began his career with genre films. Classe Tous Risques, released in 1960, is considered the best of his early work and it's a fascinating companion to similar crime movies made around the same time by Jean-Pierre Melville. (continued)

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For years, Anita Busch was

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For years, Anita Busch was like Old Faithful. Every time I saw her at a screening or a party, she always gave me a vaguely dirty look. Every...damn...time. Which is one reason why I enjoyed...no, not enjoyed...why I didn't especially grieve over Nikki Finke's respectful vivisection and entombment of the former entertainment journalist in this just-posted L.A. Weekly column. The subhead reads, "Pellicano charges are vindication for the former Hollywood reporter, but we've already buried her."

What...are you kidding? This is<< previous | next >>I was blown away by

Posted by Jeffrey Wells on June 22, 2005 at 10:59 PM