DVD: Daniel Cauchy ... (flambeur touchez grisbi)

DVD: Daniel Cauchy ...

DVD:

3 reviews
Glenn Ford, Geraldine Brooks

Alpha Video, 2004

Touched by 'The Green Glove'
A saint's stolen glove, a holy relic, touches believer's lives but belongs back in its resting place in the church. A gem encrusted antiquity, its earthly value contrasts with its healing force . To return it or cash in is a temptation to overcome. Glenn Ford is an American in France after the war trying to foil George MacCready's attempt to possess the glove and its power. The chase over the ...

Grisbi [Region 2]

16 reviews
Jean Gabin, René Dary

masculine loneliness
Yes, it is about gangsters. But to any Continental old enough to have seen this movie first in a small suburban movie theater full of smoke (when the basic idea was 'I will grow up and do this kind of things'), then to have seen it again in late night showings on a black-and-white TV (when it was already slightly fading away, towards nostalgia), and finally in poor VHS and in the admirable ...

Bob le Flambeur - Criterion Collection

27 reviews
Gerard Buhr, Daniel Cauchy

Criterion, 2002

Ah, Monsieur Bob...
Just saw this movie again after probably two decades, and it's still one of the more gripping - and probably the pleasantest - of the great heist/noir movies I've ever seen. Reminded me that I once had a trilogy in my head of aging-courtly-criminals-we-root-for: Roger Duchesne's Bob Le Flambeur, Burt Lancaster's Lou Pasco in "Atlantic City", and Richard Farnsworth's Bill Miner is "The Grey ...

Touchez Pas au Grisbi - Criterion Collection

16 reviews
Jean Gabin, René Dary

Criterion, 2005

masculine loneliness
Yes, it is about gangsters. But to any Continental old enough to have seen this movie first in a small suburban movie theater full of smoke (when the basic idea was 'I will grow up and do this kind of things'), then to have seen it again in late night showings on a black-and-white TV (when it was already slightly fading away, towards nostalgia), and finally in poor VHS and in the admirable ...

Grisbi [Region 2]

Le Gendarme de St. Tropez [Region 2]

14 reviews
Louis de Funès, Geneviève Grad

For Fans of Peter Sellers, Jackie Chan, Jerry Lewis, Chaplin
"Le Gendarme De Saint-Tropez," as subtitled in English, is a fine display of the comedic style of Louis de Funes. Like Peter Sellers, Jackie Chan and Jerry Lewis, and even Charlie Chaplin, de Funes' humor is in his missteps just as it is his choreographed moves. They all share a thread of technique that, though their genres are different, are similarly funny. This farce has de Funes acting ...