Discland
edited by Jonathan Doyle
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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Forget that whole Sundance Film

Forget that whole Sundance Film Festival '06 thing I posted in this section a few days ago, and in the main column last Saturday. I've now been persuaded that a good portion of the titles I mentioned won't be at the festival, and that some weren't even submitted (!). Five or six days ago a friend from the festival circuit sent me a document put together by Film Finders called "Tipped for Sundance," and it had those 22 films listed. I went for it because (a) the Film Finders people are known to be fairly well connected on a business affairs level, (b) the document was passed along only a few days before the official announcements (the trades will be running the stories this week), (c) the document "looked" superficially reliable -- it had production info history, sales contact info and phone numbers for each film -- and (d) the combined reputations of Film Finders and the guy who sent me the document convinced me the information was probably jake. And for the most part, it wasn't.

Posted by Jeffrey Wells on November 28, 2005 at 02:33 PM

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