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25.01.2022 AMERICA'S CRITICS AND JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE The notes that follow are very short extracts of the published writings of a number of America's greatest critics. David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's notes come from a short essay headed "New Independent Directors" which appeared in the third edition of their monumental Film History - An Introduction. The late, American critic Roger Ebert had a great admiration for Jean -Pierre Melville as evidenced by a couple of seriously enthu...Continue reading

23.01.2022 Terrific conversation on the Screen Show today between host Jason DiRosso and Melville enthusiasts Adrian Danks and Jane Mills (who is also doing the intro for LE CERCLE ROUGE at 4.00 pm and 4.15 pm on Sunday at the Ritz Randwick). Photo below right is Alain Delon in typical Melville costuming.) The Melville segment starts around 26". https://www.abc.net.au//the-screen-show/the-scree/12709910

20.01.2022 Superb trailer for today's Jean-Pierre Melville screening at the Randwick Ritz at 4.00 pm https://www.youtube.com/watch

20.01.2022 Inspired as much by Hollywood film noir as he was 'Moby Dick' (for which he took the author's name), French director Jean-Pierre Melville manifested his own dis...tinct cinema aesthetic and we're very excited to present a retrospective of his career, with STUDIOCANAL and Cinema Reborn A catalyst behind the French New Wave and a major influence on the likes of Quentin Tarantino and Michael Mann, Melville brought a gritty, freewheeling style to the gangster genre and we're screening six of his best titles, gorgeously restored for the occasion. bit.ly/Melville-Ritz

16.01.2022 Here is the list of the distinguished scholars, critics and film-makers who will be doing the introductions at the forthcoming Jean-Pierre Melville season starting on 4 October at the Randwick Ritz. Sunday 4 October - LE CERCLE ROUGE/ THE RED CIRCLE (1970, 140 mins) Introduced by Dr Jane Mills, Associate Professor, School of the Arts & Media, UNSW, Australia, Associate Editor: Fusion, Series Editor: Australian Screen Classics Sunday 11 October - BOB LE FLAMBEUR/BOB THE GAM...BLER (1956,98 mins) Introduced by Bruce Beresford, Oscar nominee, double AACTA Award for Best Director, Director of more than thirty feature films in Australia, the UK, Europe and the USA. Sunday 25 October - LÉON MORIN, PRÊTRE/LEON MORIN, PRIEST (1961, 117 mins) Introduced by Max Berghouse Lawyer, film critic and film scholar Sunday 1 November - L’ARMÉE DES OMBRES/ARMY OF THE SHADOWS (1969,145 mins) Introduced by David Stratton Author, Film critic, festival director and programmer, Television presenter, Lecturer in the History of Film, Continuing Education Centre, University of Sydney Sunday 8 November - UN FLIC/DIRTY MONEY (1972, 98 mins) Introduced by Margot Nash Screenwriter, Director and Script Editor. Honorary Associate Teaching & Research in the School of Communications at the University of Technology Sydney.

15.01.2022 A Youtube Tribute to Romy Schneider, a star and a luminous presence in five of Claude Sautet's films, including three on show in the season at the Ritz starting on Sunday with LES CHOSES DE LA VIE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YALvERzhHUU

15.01.2022 Following Jean-Pierre Melville at the Randwick Ritz a season of films by the master of emotions Claude Sautet, filled with the great stars of French cinema Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Yves Montand, Gerard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, Patrick Dewaere, Michel Serrault and Emmanuelle Beart. https://www.ritzcinemas.com.au//claude-sautet-affairs-of-t

13.01.2022 The Jean-Pierre Melville season at the Ritz kicked right along in the Ritz's big Cinema One last Sunday with a notable highlight being Bruce Beresford's introduction for which he dressed the part in hat and trench coat. Next up Melville's very intriguing LE DOULOS/THE FINGER MAN from 1963 starring French stalwarts Belmondo, Reggiani, Desailly and Piccoli. Read more and a link to online bookings below.https://filmalert101.blogspot.com//cinema-reborn-jean-pier

13.01.2022 A major piece on Jean-Pierre Melville by Fin Review film critic John McDonald who will be presenting LE DOULOS on Sunday 18 October at 4.00 pm at the Randwick Ritz. For tickets head for the Ritz website.

11.01.2022 After three variations on the French underworld, the Jean-Pierre Melville season at the Ritz Cinemas Randwick moves onto another of Melville’s key themes, life during the period of the Occupation and the world of the French Resistance. First up is his 1961 drama LEON MORIN, PRIEST starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Emmanuelle Riva. Australia’s reigning Melville expert Adrian Danks describes the film thus: A priest helps a disillusioned war widow during WWII. Sometimes regarde...Continue reading

11.01.2022 "I dont know what will be left of me fifty years from now. I suspect that all films will have aged terribly and that the cinema probably wont even exist anymore. I estimate the final disappearance of cinemas as taking place round the year 2020, so in fifty years there will be nothing but television." JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE on the eve of the release of his then latest film LE CERCLE ROUGE interviewed by Rui Nogueira. But he was wrong....https://www.ritzcinemas.com.au//jean-pierre-melville-retro

10.01.2022 Australian film producer (NEWSFRONT, SPOTSWOOD, LONG WEEEKEND, STARSTRUCK and many more) Richard Brennan has long been a Melville fan and BOB LE FLAMBEUR is among his favourites. Richard writes: I have seen ‘Bob Le Flambeur many times and never fail to enjoy it. The film was shot in late 1955 and released in 1956 behind the successful distribution of Becker’s Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954) and Dassin’s Rififi (1955). Melville was hoping for a wide audience and to this end... he secured the participation of screenwriter Auguste Le Breton whose previous successes in the crime genre included Rififi and Razzia (1955). Like Grisbi and Rififi the film centres around the planning and execution of a robbery but Bob Le Flambeur is a far more lighthearted film than either. The titular Bob is a gentlemanly figure by comparison with the lowlifes who inhabit Rififi and its major predecessor The Asphalt Jungle. His interactions with a 16 year old girl whom he befriends and his protegé Paulo who is a bit of a loose cannon are unpredictable and satisfying. The story telling is free and easy and the locations are exhilarating. Best of all the ending is wonderful.

08.01.2022 Response to the opening film in the Melville season, LE CERCLE ROUGE response has been such that a second screening has now been added to the Randwick Ritz’s schedule for Sunday 4 October at 4.00 pm and now again at 4.15 pm. The Melville season is presented in association with Cinema Reborn and StudioCanal. "In his penultimate film, Melville’s criminal world has never been so seductive and intoxicating, its extended silent jewel heist one of the most finely calibrated sequenc...es in all cinema from anywhere. Al Clark, producer of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and executive producer of Chopper . A man is released from a 5-year prison term on the same day a convicted murderer escapes from a train. The two men’s paths cross and, together with an alcoholic ex-cop, they plan the perfect heist (an astonishing, completely wordless 30-minute masterstroke). This was Melville’s biggest commercial success in France and perhaps his most perfectly realised crime film. The flawless cast features a set of quintessential Melvillian trench coated anti-heroes played by Alain Delon, Yves Montand and Gian Maria Volonté. The 4K restoration of LE CERCLE ROUGE was done by StudioCanal and the French Centre national de Cinema from the original negative. The magnificent restoration was premiered at Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna and screened as part of the 2020 selection of Venezia Classici/ Venice Classics. Venice director Alberto Barbera, when writing about the classic restorations strand, called it the fantastic French heist thriller. The Bologna catalogue note by Roberto Chiesi stated: As is always the case in the great French director’s films, the clichés of a heist caper unravel into a melancholic meditation on the randomness, futility and solitude that characterise the human condition.It was Melville’s greatest box-office success, both in France and abroad, and it inspired many film-makers of the following generations Melville’s moody, epic love letter to gangster cinema (not to mention cold masculinity) details the nuts and bolts of a heist with brilliant precision, but it’s also a poetic exploration of Melville’s obsession with the business of busy-ness, working, his opocentricity. A major influence on filmmakers like Tarantino and John Woo, (re)discover this French classic on the big screen and immerse yourself in the Buddha’s red circle. Ben Cho, Australian film director A twisting, inventive gangster caper from Jean-Pierre Melville. The most satisfyingly pure storytelling of his career." (Quote from Lee Server The Big Book of Noir)

07.01.2022 Janice Tong is also doing the second intro to MAX ET LES FERAILLEURS next Sunday

07.01.2022 After serious consultation with professionals, experts and people who know about these things and notwithstanding that there is a by now battered 16mm print somewhere close by and that 15 years ago the film was released on DVD to no doubt little attention, it has been agreed by all that the screening of MAX AND THE JUNKMEN at the Ritz on Sunday is indeed the film's Australian Theatrical Premiere. The version to be screened is StudioCanal's recent restoration which digitally restored the original negative and have further created a new interpositive at ECLAIR laboratories. Its only taken 48 years to get here in a version that Claude Sautet and his collaborators intended us to see. Dont miss this once in a lifetime opportunity.

05.01.2022 https://filmalert101.blogspot.com//cinema-reborn-jane-mill Jane's intro has been expanded from the oral presentation given before last Sunday's screening of LE CERCLE ROUGE and the longer version is now posted via the link below.

04.01.2022 https://filmalert101.blogspot.com//cinema-reborn-jane-mill Jane's intro has been expanded from the oral presentation given before last Sunday's screening of LE CERCLE ROUGE and the longer version is now posted via the link below.

03.01.2022 Acclaimed Australian film-maker Bruce Beresford, probably the Australian director who has made more features the any of his compatriots generously agreed to do the introduction to the second selection in the Jean-Pierre Melville retrospective currently being presented at the Ritz Cinemas, Randwick the 1956 comedy of Parisian underworld manners BOB LE FLAMBEUR. To set the tone for the season Bruce opted for Melvillian dress as per the photo below and offered some thoughts for... those undertaking the Ritz's journey through almost half of Melville's entire output. Bruce's advice This is how you should attend a Jean-Pierre Melville retrospective Tell nobody what you are doing. Even your loved ones - especially your loved ones - must be kept in the dark. It is comes to a choice between smoking and talking, smoke. Dress well but without ostentation. Wear a raincoat, buttoned and belted, regardless of whether there is rain. Any revolver should be kept, until you need it, in the pocket of the coat. Finally, before you leave home, put your hat on. If you don’t have a hat, you can’t go. Next up on Sunday 18 October Melville's intriguing story of a stool pigeon...or is he... LE DOULOS (1963) with a stellar cast of French cinema icons - Jean-Paul Belmondo (below), Serge Reggiani, Jean Desailly and Michel Piccoli. Advance Bookings are on sale now at the Ritz Box-office.

02.01.2022 On Sunday 15 November at 4.00 pm The Ritz Cinemas Randwick begin a seven film retrospective of films by French master Claude Sautet (1924-2000) A mainstay of high-quality French cinema from the mid-1950s to mid-1990s, Claude Sautet’s career was always influential. Films like The Things of Life(1969) were trend-setting international art house hits. He was closely associated with the careers of some of French cinema’s acting icons; especially Romy Schenider, whose five r...Continue reading