Tag: Simone Signoret

Jean-Pierre Melville directs the French Resistance classic starring Lino Ventura and Simone Signoret

‘Army of Shadows’ – Jean-Pierre Melville’s French Resistance on FilmStruck

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic, Criterion, drama, DVD, FilmStruck, Foreign Affairs, historical, suspense, thriller 08/09/2018 Sean Axmaker

Legendary gangster movie director Jean-Pierre Melville turned his familiar crime film iconography on its head with Army of Shadows (France, 1969), his gravely personal drama about the early days of the French Resistance in World War II. Gangster movie icon Lino Ventura plays Resistance leader Philippe Gerbier with an observant stillness and coiled calm different […]

Vera Clouzot in Henri-Georges Clouzot's Hitchcockian thriller with Simone Signoret

The original ‘Diabolique’ on Amazon Prime and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Amazon Prime, Blu-ray, Classic, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, Essential Viewing, Foreign Affairs, suspense, SVOD, thriller 10/26/201710/26/2017 Sean Axmaker

Henri-Georges Clouzot was called the Hitchcock of France for his shadowy thrillers and the atmosphere of distrust and suspicion that ran through so many of his films. Diabolique (France, 1955, not rated, with subtitles), his 1955 thriller about a plot to commit a perfect murder and the wrenching tension when the corpse disappears, plays like […]