25Mar09

A Dassin Dossier

J. Hoberman’s got a sharp and snazzy piece in the New York Times on American expat director Jules Dassin—just in time for Film Forum’s fifteen-film retrospective of his career. The blacklisted filmmaker of black-hearted crime dramas (and a couple of hot-blooded comedies), Dassin, who died last March at the age of ninety-six, is celebrated by Hoberman both for his classic postwar noirs (Night and the City, Thieves’ Highway) and his lesser-known works, like Up Tight, a rare, late-sixties black-power updating of John Ford’s The Informer that will be showing at Film Forum.

Thieves’ Highway

Thieves’ Highway

Jules Dassin

1949

94 min

Black and White

1.33:1

Night and the City

Night and the City

Jules Dassin

1950

101 min

Black and White

1.33:1

Brute Force

Brute Force

Jules Dassin

1947

98 min

Black and White

1.33:1

The Naked City

The Naked City

Jules Dassin

1948

96 min

Black and White

1.33:1

Rififi

Rififi

Jules Dassin

1955

118 min

Black and White

1.33:1

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