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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Paris photos #4


A sublime little Italian place on rue Lepic, mainly frequented by the Montmartre locals and almost directly across from the apartment building where Vincent Van Gogh lived with his brother Theo (54 rue Lepic) from 1886 to 1887 -- 5.29.06, 5:55 pm.

And (a) there aren't enough blue doors on the front of apartment buildings in the U.S. -- Monday, 5.29.06, 4:45 pm; (b) rue Lepic facing west in the late evening -- Monday, 5.29.06, 11:25 pm; (c) menu at another Italian place in Montmartre -- Monday, 5.30.06, 5:45 pm; (d) remnant of Monday evening's dinner at an African place -- Monday, 5.29.06, 10:45 pm; (e) Amelie cafe on rue Lepic, south of rue d'Abesses; (f) electricite -- Tuesday, 5.30.06, 5:50 pm; (g) Corner of rue Damremont and rue Tourlaque, facing north -- Tuesday, 5.30.06, 6:05 pm.

Posted by Jeffrey Wells on May 30, 2006 at 10:31 AM

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