The undisputed star director of French noir is Jean-Pierre Melville. The writer and director helmed some of cinema's coolest and most thrilling films that blended the best of Hollywood noir tropes ...

Only known manuscript of Jean-Luc Godard’s French New Wave classic to go on auction - The film helped usher in the highly ...

EXTRAS: 3*Interviews with Melville associates, commentaries by French film historian Ginette Vincendeau. DAMIEN LOVE Born Jean-Pierre Grumbach, the great French director renamed himself after ...