Out of all the titan directors of French cinema who operated between the 1940s and the late 1950s, Jacques Becker is perhaps the least well-known. He cut his teeth working as an assistant to Jean Renoir during many of his projects including the famed war movie, ‘La Grande Illusion’ before […]
Jacques Becker
Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954) Jean Gabin and Jacques Becker’s Radical Chic (Review)
There’s an anecdote Martin Scorsese often tells about his childhood that turns up in some variant or other in most of his gangster films. It concerns the future director walking around Little Italy with his mother, noticing that some people seemed to be wearing better clothes and driving better cars […]