The reopening of Film Forum today, after several months of renovation and expansion (it has grown from three screens to four), is being launched auspiciously, with the first complete American ...

Jeanne Moreau and Jean Gabin in "Touchez pas au grisbi" Often fixated on process, Becker could turn the most mundane, unremarkable bits of work into hypnotic cinema. His fanciful crime drama Dernier ...

This winter, the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) presents a retrospective of the films of Jacques Becker (1906-1960), whose richly detailed worlds, indelible characters, and a humanist ...

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Jacques Becker (1906-1960) is a classic case of the artist who comes in between. An assistant to Jean Renoir on several films in the ’30s, he was too young to be a full participant in the golden age ...

“Casque d’Or” is one of the highlights of the Pacific Film Archive’s tribute to the great French director Jacques Becker, who is not a household name in America, but whose work is so gut-level and ...

I’m going to come clean right from the start and break the first rule of film criticism — that is, by reviewing a movie I haven’t seen. Here’s the reason for making an exception this time: This is a ...

Some arts lovers live in restless hope, forever seeking previously unappreciated masterworks. Others sit serenely, confident that everything worth revering is already known. The two-week retrospective ...

Jacques Becker, currently the subject of a full retrospective at Film Forum, was once one of the most undervalued of French filmmakers, seen by many as a lesser moon of the planet Jean Renoir (who was ...