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 ...

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 ...

Jacques Becker (French: [bɛkɛʁ]; 15 September 1906 – 21 February 1960) was a French screenwriter and film director. Becker first worked in the 1930s as an assistant to director Jean Renoir during what ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...