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Alain Demon in Jean-Pierre Melville's French crime classic

I Wake Up Streaming – September 2019

!Featured, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, film noir, International Cinema, suspense, thriller, What to Stream 09/20/201903/31/2021 Sean Axmaker

Originally published on the Film Noir Foundation website The Criterion Channel launched earlier this year with a spotlight on American film noir. This month, it celebrates the shadows of international crime dramas, gangster films, and thrillers. The Complete Jean-Pierre Melville All 14 Melville films, from his debut documentary short 24 Hours in the Life of a […]

French filmmaker and film historian Bertrand Tavernier is your tour guide in this personal documentary

Bertrand Tavernier presents ‘My Journey Through French Cinema’ on Kanopy

!Featured, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, Documentary, DVD, film noir, Free, International Cinema, Kanopy, movies about movies, SVOD 04/06/201904/09/2019 Sean Axmaker

Bertrand Tavernier is both an essential French filmmaker and a dedicated film historian. His epic (over three hours long) documentary My Journey Through French Cinema (France, 2016) combines the two professional callings in a decidedly personal look at the cinema that shaped and excited him as both a cinephile and a filmmaker. Forget the familiar […]