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 ...

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 ...

On Tuesday, May 20, FIAF screens Jacques Becker’s “Rue de l’Estrapade” and Adolfo Arrieta’s “Flammes,” the latter with an introduction by author Bruce Benderson. Michel Dorsday’s 1953 review of Becker ...

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 ...

Jacques Becker, who did such a fine job in painting the turn-of-the-century apache milieu in Casque D'Or, brings the same care and psychological overtones to a film on the modern racketeer element.

Based on the true story of a French prison break and a book by ex-con José Giovanni, the 1960 film is hitting screens with a brand new 4K restoration. Praised for its realism and intensity, Jacques ...

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 ...

As long as men have been placed behind bars they’ve plotted to escape, and those plans have powered prison-break movies without end. But even in that large group, “Le Trou” stands apart. For one thing ...

“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 ...

Jacques Becker had the misfortune of working just before the French new wave took hold and rendered his kind of craftsmanship unfashionable. But two new Criterion releases, Casque d’Or and Touchez Pas ...

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 ...

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 ...