Some movies you see because you want to. Others you see because you have to. For anyone who is interested in film noir, Jean-Pierre Melville’s Bob le Flambeur (1955) is one of the latter. Just as John ...
In 1955, French writer/director Jean-Pierre Melville made Bob Le Flambeur, which some consider the classic heist movie. Of course, not wishing to leave it to the French to have command over such ...
It’s been almost 50 years since Jean-Pierre Melville wrote, directed, and put out his defining heist movie, Bob Le Flambeur. In its era, Bob was dashing and even fairly influential; Lewis Milestone’s ...
Neil Jordan remakes Jean-Pierre Melville’s classic French noir Bob le flambeur (1955), with Nick Nolte carrying the picture as aging gentleman criminal Bob Montagnet. In revising Melville, Jordan ...