Le roman policier and le film policier (now widely known by the reverse slang or verlan term "polar") have been staples of French popular culture for a century. Its soundtrack crackling with ...

Claude Sautet’s 1960 existential buddy adventure opens Friday at Film Forum in a new 4K restoration. By J. Hoberman “Film noir” is a French coinage but France’s homegrown crime movies, a staple of the ...

In “Classe Tous Risques” – a pun on the French expression for the more innocuous ‘classe touriste’ – we are on a journey though hardly a tourist trip, the last-ditch escape from difficulties in Italy, ...

Lino, José, Claude. Meet the three men, all dead now, who together made Classe Tous Risques; for my money, the greatest of all French gangster movies. José Giovanni was on death row in Paris in the ...

The re-release of his little-known 1960 thriller Classe Tous Risques is a revelation. A tense tale of dishonour among thieves this is as hard-boiled and flinty as anything Hollywood was making at the ...

The deep underworld experience of the novelist who wrote the book upon which the film is based fell neatly in line with a cadre of French filmmakers enamored of the illicit allure of life outside the ...

Overshadowed by the daring inventions of the French New Wave film movement by an audacious set of newcomers (Godard, Truffaut) during the better part of the 1960s, director Claude Sautet’s practice ...

To come across “Classe Tous Risques” is like discovering a bottle of marvelous French wine you didn’t remember you had, opening it and finding it every bit as delicious as its reputation promised.

neglected masterpieces like I Am Cuba and Army Of Shadows have shown, cinema history is littered with great movies that, for one reason or another, were out of step with the times and thus unfairly ...

The re-release of his little-known 1960 thriller Classe Tous Risques is a revelation. A tense tale of dishonour among thieves this is as hard-boiled and flinty as anything Hollywood was making at the ...

Male bonding in cinema — particularly in crime drama — is a long tradition. There’s an endless list of buddy films where gun-toting fellas forge lifelong connections under a hail of violence. But ...