Melville 100
June 8–August 12, 2017
This retrospective marks the centennial of the great French director whose American-inspired crime films helped set the New Wave in motion.
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Le Samouraï
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Army of Shadows
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Bob le flambeur
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Léon Morin, Priest
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Le cercle rouge
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Le Samouraï
Jean-Pierre Melville
France, 1967Imported Print
Thursday, June 8 7 PMView DetailsAlain Delon embodies cool as a solitary, silent Parisian killer flitting between hits and flings in this essential, influential assassin film. “Achieves an atmosphere of mesmerizing, otherworldly beauty” (Slant).
Army of Shadows
Jean-Pierre Melville
France, 1969Saturday, June 10 6 PMView DetailsMelville’s drama of the French Resistance, starring Lino Ventura and Simone Signoret, “grips tighter than a Gestapo handcuff. . . . A film of noirish compositions and fantastic cool” (The Independent).
The Silence of the Sea
Jean-Pierre Melville
France, 1949Imported Print
Sunday, June 11 7 PMView DetailsA German officer in occupied France falls in love with his “host’s” niece in Melville’s spare debut. “A concentrated, sensitive, interior film” (David Thomson). With short 24 heures de la vie d’un clown.
Le Samouraï
Jean-Pierre Melville
France, 1967Imported Print
Friday, June 16 8:30 PMView DetailsAlain Delon embodies cool as a solitary, silent Parisian killer flitting between hits and flings in this essential, influential assassin film. “Achieves an atmosphere of mesmerizing, otherworldly beauty” (Slant).
Les enfants terribles
Jean-Pierre Melville
France, 1950Imported Print
Sunday, June 18 7 PMView DetailsJean Cocteau collaborated with Melville on this poetic, moody adaptation of Cocteau’s novel about the obsessive love between a brother and sister. “One of French cinema’s greatest, and most surprising, meetings of the minds” (Criterion Collection).
Bob le flambeur
Jean-Pierre Melville
France, 1956Saturday, June 24 6:30 PMView Details“The cinematic Birth of the Cool, Melville’s drollest, most likable gangster movie. . . . Exceedingly light on its feet” (Village Voice).
Army of Shadows
Jean-Pierre Melville
France, 1969Sunday, June 25 7 PMView DetailsMelville’s drama of the French Resistance, starring Lino Ventura and Simone Signoret, “grips tighter than a Gestapo handcuff. . . . A film of noirish compositions and fantastic cool” (The Independent).
Léon Morin, Priest
Jean-Pierre Melville
France, 1961New Digital Restoration
Wednesday, June 28 7:00View DetailsTwo of the French New Wave’s most iconic actors, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Emmanuelle Riva, star as a cleric and a Communist drawn together through love. “A triumph of mood, setting, and innuendo” (Criterion Collection).
Le deuxième souffle
Jean-Pierre Melville
France, 1966Imported Print
Friday, July 7 7 PMView DetailsAging gangster Lino Ventura escapes from jail but winds up being sucked into one last heist in Melville’s well-drilled policier.
Quand tu liras cette lettre
Jean-Pierre Melville
France, Italy, 1953Imported Print
Friday, July 14 8:30 PMView DetailsA sleazy loverboy on the Riviera meets his match in his young victim’s older sister—a nun (Juliette Gréco) just out of the convent—in this delirious combination of French fatalism, postwar despair, noir angles, and heated melodrama.
Léon Morin, Priest
Jean-Pierre Melville
France, 1961New Digital Restoration
Sunday, July 16 7:00View DetailsTwo of the French New Wave’s most iconic actors, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Emmanuelle Riva, star as a cleric and a Communist drawn together through love. “A triumph of mood, setting, and innuendo” (Criterion Collection).
Two Men in Manhattan
Jean-Pierre Melville
France, 1959Sunday, July 30 7 PMView DetailsA French journalist uncovers the death of a French diplomat in New York in Melville’s low-budget, semi-documentary noir.
Le doulos
Jean-Pierre Melville
France, 1963Thursday, August 3 7 PMView DetailsSerge Reggiani suspects Jean-Paul Belmondo of being a stool pigeon in this Melvillean roundabout of ambiguity and betrayal.
Le doulos
Jean-Pierre Melville
France, 1963Saturday, August 5 6 PMView DetailsSerge Reggiani suspects Jean-Paul Belmondo of being a stool pigeon in this Melvillean roundabout of ambiguity and betrayal.
Le cercle rouge
Jean-Pierre Melville
France, 1970Sunday, August 6 7 PMView DetailsAlain Delon and Yves Montand in Melville’s “dazzling epic of love, guns, gangsters, and cigarettes” (Los Angeles Times).
Un flic
Jean-Pierre Melville
France, 1972Saturday, August 12 6:30 PMView DetailsAlain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, and Richard Crenna star in Melville’s last feature, a consummate Sartre-by-way-of-Simenon heist film of remarkable set pieces and an even more remarkable sense of nihilism.