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VHS : Rififi
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Rififi starring: Jules Dassin, Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel, Marie Sabouret directed by: Jules Dassin List Price: CDN$ 35.65 Price: CDN$ 29.00 You Save: CDN$6.65 (19%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780780023956 Format: Import, NTSC, Subtitled ISBN: 0780023951 Release Date: April 24, 2001 Theatrical Release Date: June 05, 1956 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com Essential Video: Hollywood's loss was Europe's gain when Jules Dassin fled America because of the House Un-American Activities Committee blacklist at the end of the 1940s. His films helped bring the moral ambiguity of the postwar American thriller to Europe, inspiring a new generation of critics and filmmakers. Writing several years before he made The 400 Blows, François Truffaut praised Dassin for the way his films "combin[ed] the documentary approach with lyricism," a method that would inform many of the new wave films of the '60s. Rififi, shot on the rainy streets of Paris, is imbued with the same gritty realism that marked Dassin's earlier work in New York (The Naked City) and London (Night and the City). Jean Servais plays Tony le Stéphanois, an aging crook whose thin lips and tired, seen-it-all eyes give him a look somewhere between Humphrey Bogart and Harry Dean Stanton. Out of jail after a five-year stretch, he joins up with a couple of pals to pull one last heist: a jewel robbery that is portrayed in such detail (including tips on how to silence an alarm using a fire extinguisher) that the film was banned in several countries. The robbery sequence alone, which lasts for 30 minutes and is played entirely without dialogue, would be enough to ensure Rififi's classic status, but there's a lot more to enjoy, including terrific performances from Marie Sabouret as Tony's world-weary ex-girlfriend, and from Dassin himself as a dandified Italian safecracker with an eye for the ladies. After the thrill of the heist, in the film's final scenes when, with the inevitability of the best films noirs everything falls apart, Dassin achieves the lyricism that Truffaut admired so much. By combining the conventions of a caper movie with his own brand of bleak nihilism, he made Rififi into a film that deserves to be counted among the best ever made.--Simon Leake Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Rififi needs editing? Hardly.Rififi needs editing? Hardly. Rififi needs nothing but bowing down to. Some college Joes from Collegeville need editing. The permanent kind. Can there honestly be a place in the world out there called "Collegeville"? Rating:  - Needs EditingI'm sure film school buffs, Tarrentino too, thought this movie great simply becaue it cost so little. Isn't that every film student's dream: make a movie for peanuts and get famous. This movie is the first heist flick and it is influential. The burglery is clever and without special effects, so I applaud the simplicity, but this film needs editing. It is too long. There's a half hour of baloney to remove to tighten this baby up. Jules Dassin should know better and he gets a lot of credit because he's on the Black List? You see, the Black List is the lightning rod for the Left, very emotional. Hey, if you're trying to destroy democracy and capitalism in the richest, most succesful country ever, am I supposed to send you roses? My favorite scene ... Read More: Rating: - Instead ofreading the re-hashes of the plot below (so many people still don't understand what "review" means), and the one person who dubbed it "Boring" (find another past time, OK?), check out the reviews that really talk about this film, and then treat yurself and buy it. YOu won't be disappointed. It's a true classic. Rating: - The best french film noir in the fiftiesWho can doubt the huge contribution that USA gave the world with films as Witness for prosecution, Pick up on South Sreet , Asphalt jungle or the Killing in this creative decade? But what Rififi has in its content is much more. The famous mude fifteen minutes became a discrete but original tribute to the glorius mude films. To be true, I have to name Bob le flambeur as another strong candidate among the best exponents of the french film noir. It's very close to Rififi about it respects to its freshness and another virtues. Jules Dassin also directed the Naked city, but I'd rather prefer Rififi. Buy this DVD sooner as you can and don't forget the fact that the new wave will burn three years after. And between you and me, Rififi ... Read More: Rating: - Stylish and Thrilling"Rififi" is a terrific heist movie, and one from which subsequent heist films have drawn ever since. Jules Dassin had a feel for the seedy underworld in which these thieves live---you will not find here the Hollywood glamour of "Ocean's Eleven." The robbers in "Rififi" don't rob for the thrill, and they're not playing a game. They rob to survive, to pay for their children's upbringing, to prove to themselves and others that they still have something to offer the world. The much-lauded heist scene is a nail biter, filmed in virtual silence. I did have the feeling that the plot went on a bit longer than it needed to, but the high-speed race to deliver the child to his mother that ends the film is classic. Read More: |
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