 | Touchez Pas au Grisbi - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $17.95 The best. World-weary Gabin in a melancholy gem. Ventura on his way up -- look for him on his own in Sautet's "Classe tous risques" or ...
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 | Le Deuxieme Souffle (Second Breath) - PAL DVD
A Russian Import -only buy if you can understand French without subtitles. A beautiful adaptation of a Jose Giovanni novel with a standoff between Lino Ventura and Paul Meurisse.
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 | Bob le Flambeur - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $16.28 Atmosphere and a very offbeat hero. After "Le Deuxieme Souffle", my favorite Melville.
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 | Quai des Orfevres - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $16.91 A lovely Clouzot with ultra-dry Louis Jouvet and a frilly musical number from Suzy Delair.
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 | Pepe Le Moko - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $14.95 Has aged a bit, but enjoy the early Gabin and a cameo song by Frehel while we wait for Criterion to re-edit Duvivier's excellent Simenon adaptation with Damia, "La tete d'un homme".
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 | Shoot the Piano Player
Buy used from: $15.59 An important Truffaut, which happens to be a "polar" based on a David Goodis novel.
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 | Rififi - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $14.99 All the ingredients are there -- including a virtuoso break-in in real-time -- but lacks a vital spark. Interesting, but not as good as Henri Verneuil's "Melodie en sous-sol" (Delon + Gabin!).
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 | Alphaville - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $12.88 A Nouvelle Vague rebound off "noir" codes with Eddie Constantine reprising his Lemmy Caution character from a series of hoky "girls 'n' whiskey" detective films.
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 | Le Samourai - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $17.95 Melville declines into stylish formalism. With Louis Malle's "Ascenseur pour l'echafaud", a key new-wave "polar".
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 | Casque d'Or - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $15.94 More a romance, really, despite the gangster milieu. But a film to remember.
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