DVD: Paul Meurisse

DVD: Paul Meurisse

DVD:

Paul Meurisse

Diabolique (Criterion Collection Spine #35)

Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot

Criterion, 1999

A Film So Good It Made Hitchcock Jealous
A murder mystery, a suspense thriller, an exploration of human psychology, Diabolique is so good that when he first saw it (the first of many viewings) the reigning master of the suspense thriller, Alfred Hitchcock, was envious. The tortuous Diabolique is the story of ...

Diabolique [Region 2]

Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot

A Film So Good It Made Hitchcock Jealous
A murder mystery, a suspense thriller, an exploration of human psychology, Diabolique is so good that when he first saw it (the first of many viewings) the reigning master of the suspense thriller, Alfred Hitchcock, was envious. The tortuous Diabolique is the story of ...

Diabolique

Le Deuxième souffle [Region 2]

Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse

A prison escape, a heist, and a Colt .45
Film noir master Jean-Pierre Melville's 1966 2 hr. and 24 min. mob epic has everything you want to see in a Melville film: a prison escape sequence, gangland violence, cool jazz clubs with leggy blondes, Colt .45's, fedoras, crime bosses putting together crews to pull ...

Le Deuxième Souffle

Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse

The Criterion Collection, 2008

A prison escape, a heist, and a Colt .45
Film noir master Jean-Pierre Melville's 1966 2 hr. and 24 min. mob epic has everything you want to see in a Melville film: a prison escape sequence, gangland violence, cool jazz clubs with leggy blondes, Colt .45's, fedoras, crime bosses putting together crews to pull ...

Le Deuxième Souffle / Second Breath
Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, 2007

Veteran gangster Gustave (Lino Ventura) escapes from prison to find his sister is being blackmailed by some petty thugs in this crime thriller. He plans one last caper to steal enough money in hopes of retiring to a tropical paradise. He and his gang are sought by a detective (Paul Meurisse), the cop who plays by the book and avoids the sadistic ...

Army of Shadows - Criterion Collection

Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse

Criterion Collection, 2007

"Jackasses."
Jean-Pierre Melville's "Army of Shadows" is a brilliant, slow-moving, and crushing cinematic treatise on morals and basic decency in a time where both have become obsolete. The French Resistance of WWII has long been a subject of historical debate (who really was a ...