Several new DVDs and videos have a distinct international flavor, showcasing films from France, Russia and even Iceland. New on DVD from Criterion is French director Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1956 ...

This light, breezy 1955 heist film is probably the least characteristic movie Jean-Pierre Melville ever made. It replaces his sternly fatalistic philosophizing with a benign, genuinely comic spirit, ...

The heist film is not evolving, at least not much, and for reasons that are not hard to point to, this is a fine thing. A recent spate of heist movies -- the remake of “The Italian Job,” “The Good ...

Why does everybody think that the French hate Americans, when they’ve done such a gorgeous job of imitating us in the past? Take Jean-Pierre Melville, for instance (who even took the name of one of ...

(R) 3 1/2 stars Neil Jordan’s shabby-chic, moody new film The Good Thief is a loose remake of the classic 1955 French heist movie Bob le Flambeur, but it makes more sense to talk about The Good Thief ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

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 ...

SINCE YOU can’t yet buy the DVD for Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven remake (due May 7), why not check out this influential 1956 casino heist flick instead? Debuting on disc April 16, Jean-Pierre ...

Like Rififi, another heist film based on the work of Auguste Le Breton, Bob Le Flambeur is hard to watch without hearing echoes of the many films it influenced, from Ocean's 11 (either version) to ...