Jack is a filmmaker, screenwriter, and novelist with a passion for the entertainment industry. After graduating from film school, he devotes most of his free time to directing short films or writing ...

Jean-Pierre Melville is a director that has probably been loved more by directors and filmmakers than general audiences. John Woo swears by him. Quentin Tarantino adores him. Walter Hill was hip to ...

The epigram that opens Jean-Pierre Melville's 1970 policier Le Cercle Rouge explains the title (translation: "The Red Circle") as a Buddhist principle on predestination, stating simply that all men ...

Réussite incontestable, "Le Cercle rouge" de Melville est diffusé ce soir sur France 2. L'occasion de retrouver un certain cinéma français plus ou moins disparu, et qui a inspiré les plus grands. Le ...

The transfer appears to be flawless and gives added depth to the detail that was already in great abundance; furthermore it serves to bring the colours alive that Melville employs wonderfully to ...

JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE’S 1970 Le Cercle Rouge is a breath of bitingly crisp air, even in an atmosphere thick with smoke from too many Gauloises. Running Friday, June 20 through Thursday, June 26 at the ...

”Le Cercle Rouge” is the antidote to every square tough-guy caper you’ve ever seen, and the inspiration for many great ones. It is an existential imperative to seek out a showing and burn rubber to ...