Male bonding in cinema — particularly in crime drama — is a long tradition. There’s an endless list of buddy films where gun-toting fellas forge lifelong connections under a hail of violence. But ...

Claude Sautet’s 1960 existential buddy adventure opens Friday at Film Forum in a new 4K restoration. By J. Hoberman “Film noir” is a French coinage but France’s homegrown crime movies, a staple of the ...

“Classe tous risques” is one of the greatest French films made before 1960, but almost nobody has heard of it. Made at the same time as films like Godard’s “Breathless” and Truffaut’s “Shoot the Piano ...

The re-release of his little-known 1960 thriller Classe Tous Risques is a revelation. A tense tale of dishonour among thieves this is as hard-boiled and flinty as anything Hollywood was making at the ...

“Classe Tous Risques”–a French thriller, directed in 1960 by Claude Sautet, about a gangster on the run and the criminal fraternity that betrays him as the police close in–is a black-and-white film ...

To come across “Classe Tous Risques” is like discovering a bottle of marvelous French wine you didn’t remember you had, opening it and finding it every bit as delicious as its reputation promised.

neglected masterpieces like I Am Cuba and Army Of Shadows have shown, cinema history is littered with great movies that, for one reason or another, were out of step with the times and thus unfairly ...

Too late for the 1940s pulp boom and too early to ride in on the trench-coat tails of Melville's cinematic crime sonnets, the 1960 release of Claude Sautet's tough-guy noir is a textbook example of ...

In “Classe Tous Risques” – a pun on the French expression for the more innocuous ‘classe touriste’ – we are on a journey though hardly a tourist trip, the last-ditch escape from difficulties in Italy, ...

Released in 1960, as the French New Wave was getting started, this terse and fatalistic (if conventional) noir about a gangster on the run from Milan to Nice to Paris was hastily swept aside, though ...

I confess I hadn’t even heard of this 1960 French gangster film by director Claude Sautet, currently the subject of a retrospective at BFI Southbank. Indeed, it seems never to have been released in ...