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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Ross Johnson on Bob Evans

Ross Johnson's nicely written, shrewdly-observed piece about the indefatigable Robert Evans, appearing in Wednesday's N.Y. Times. Evans thrives, persists...will persevere until the end! And beyond that even! Evans!

Posted by Jeffrey Wells on August 29, 2006 at 08:30 PM

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Josh Massey [TypeKey Profile Page] says ...

That's something I'd be interested in.

Posted by Josh Massey [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 30, 2006 09:04 AM

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JoeGreenia [TypeKey Profile Page] says ...

I've always wondered what Bret Ranter's Oscar picture would be. Now we know.

Posted by JoeGreenia [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 30, 2006 02:10 PM

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