Weekend Classics
La Crème du Crime
Friday, January 1 - Sunday, April 4, 2010
A 12-film series of French crime classics, including works from such Gallic masters as Godard, Duvivier, Malle, Truffaut, Clouzot, Melville, Bresson and Becker, as well as expatriate American Jules Dassin.
Pépé le Moko
Friday, January 1 - Sunday, January 3, 2010"A touchstone film for cinema historians trading in literary labels like 'poetic realism' and often mistakenly said to be a transposition of the Hollywood gangster movie, PEPE LE MOKO deserves to be reassessed... more...
Elevator to the Gallows
Friday, January 8 - Sunday, January 10, 2010"Malle's first feature, a straightforward but classy thriller about an ex-paratrooper's attempt to dispose of his mistress' tycoon husband in a perfect murder. It became associated with the early excitements... more...
Pierrot le Fou
Friday, March 12 - Wednesday, March 17, 2010"Six stars! Is Jean-Luc Godard's unmissable movie a recapitulation of all the themes that came before in his oeuvre, a sneak peek at the dense cine-tracts that would follow, his most conventional film... more...
Quai des Orfevres
Friday, January 22 - Sunday, January 24, 2010"Brooding, beautifully made and almost impossible for Americans to see (or, for that matter, to correctly pronounce), Henri-Georges Clouzot's knockout 1947 film noir QUAI DES OFEVRES makes a triumphant... more...
Shoot the Piano Player
Friday, February 5 - Sunday, February 7, 2010François Truffaut is drunk on the possibilities of cinema in this, his most playful film. Part thriller, part comedy, part tragedy, Shoot the Piano Player relates the adventures of mild-mannered piano... more...
Mississippi Mermaid
Friday, February 12 - Monday, February 15, 2010"Francois Truffaut stepped out of his autobiographical comfort zone for this 1969 film, a romantic thriller set on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean and based on the novel 'Waltz into Darkness' by Cornell... more...
Touchez Pas Au Grisbi
Friday, February 19 - Sunday, February 21, 2010"This model French gangster picture set the rules for the great sequence of underworld movies from Jean-Pierre Melville that followed. An ageing and weary Gabin attempts to retire after one last robbery.... more...
Band of Outsiders
Friday, February 26 - Sunday, February 28, 2010"Godard at his most off-the-cuff takes a 'Série Noire' thriller (Fool's Gold by Dolores Hitchens) and spins a fast and loose tale that continues his love affairs with Hollywood and with actress... more...
Pickpocket
Friday, March 12 - Wednesday, March 17, 2010"PICKPOCKET was inspired by Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, but all incidental anecdote and psychology has been stripped away. Employing few establishing shots and little camera movement,... more...
Le Cercle Rouge
Friday, March 26 - Sunday, March 28, 2010"Melville's movie involves an escaped prisoner, a diamond heist, a police manhunt and mob vengeance, but it treats these elements as the magician treats his cards; the cards are insignificant, except as... more...
