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Brilliant Director - Jules Dassin - TOPKAPI - CANTERVILLE GHOST - BRUTE FORCE - RIFIFI - passes on...

First by TheMandrakeRoot	Apr 1st, 2008 12:46:52 AM

But seriously.. by TheMandrakeRoot	Apr 1st, 2008 12:49:45 AM
Rest in peace you will be missed..
Goodbye. by Mr. Olevar	Apr 1st, 2008 12:59:39 AM
First Mr. Widmark and then the great Dassin. Very sad news. His career is absolutely marvelous. We will miss you... I love Rififi, Night and the city, Topkapi... Rest in peace.
a sad day for film... by Maniaq	Apr 1st, 2008 01:50:05 AM
Dassin's efforts towered over others from both his time and those that came after him. To this day I consider the 30min "stealth" sequence in Rififi with ABSOLUTELY NO DIALOGUE and white-knuckle tension to be one of the greatest pieces of cinema EVER - in it's entire history! The world is truly worse off today than it was yesterday...
Riffifi by bswise	Apr 1st, 2008 01:59:18 AM
Is essential noir and my favorite heist movie of all time. A masterpiece of shadow play and pathos, it seems so ahead of its time as to anticipate and inform films like Godard's Breathless, Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player, or Melville's Le Samouraï and Le Cercle Rouge. Kind of eerie he and Widmark passing so close together. RIP Jules Dassin
Great movies with great titles. by CuervoJones	Apr 1st, 2008 02:20:03 AM
RIP
jesus harry... by soup74	Apr 1st, 2008 02:25:57 AM
RIP to Jules Dassin, he sounds inspiring. and harry, it really is amazing how much you know about film.
the sound of silence by jigsaw	Apr 1st, 2008 02:41:40 AM
watching Night and the City or Thieves' Highway for the first time, you realize modern cinema isn't very compelling, original, or even modern. The cinematography in The Naked City, shot in 1947, is grittier and more transporting than films made 60 years later. 30 silent minutes at the heart of Rififi beats the hell out of the fastest loudest go-for-broke popcorn sequence from last summer or the one before. If you haven't seen his films this sounds like hyperbolic bullshit, but it's true: his seedy location-shooting and bleak storylines have a timeless vitality that very few directors, alive or dead, could match. And they were lean motherfuckers too. Unlike today's sadly (or hysterically) bloated death-porn, Dassin understood chew up, spit out, coming back for more. His films (especially during that untouchable late 40's-mid 50's period) wring every visceral drop of pressure out of a story. Dude was a precious rare gem, and generous enough to pour so much worth into his movies. He's the kind of director who gets people like me to spout off obnoxious and obsequious praise for being forgotten next to Welles, Peckinpah, Hitchcock et al. At least Criterion remembered. Watch Topkapi, then note that the real tragedy here is the
continued (last post cut off) by jigsaw	Apr 1st, 2008 02:44:48 AM
like under 40 posts compared to 4000 for an episode of Journeyman
So weird . . . by Fuckles	Apr 1st, 2008 03:22:31 AM
I was just at the theater watching "The Bank Job" no less than 5 hours ago and sitting there thinking "Well, this certainly isn't 'Rififi'" (to be fair, the film wasn't trying to be). Dassin is a master. Inarguable. R.I.P.
the guy was a genius by Spandau Belly	Apr 1st, 2008 07:00:29 AM
Rest in peace, Jules.
went clicky happy there with the youtube vids, didn't ya? by Gungan Slayer	Apr 1st, 2008 08:44:55 AM
He will be missed though. He made a ton of awesome stuff.
worth remembering why he made no american films after _night and by duanejones	Apr 1st, 2008 09:32:11 AM
...the blacklist and dassin's placement on it as he shot _night_ in london. even with such classics under his belt, he still could never mount another film with european finances. sad. true. farewell.
'Rififi' is the best crime film of all time. by Lone_Wolf_McQuaalude	Apr 1st, 2008 09:39:52 AM
No question
PAUL SCOFIELD by troutpencil	Apr 1st, 2008 01:37:46 PM
Completely ignored by AICN. Bastards.
RIP by SpanksterOfLove	Apr 1st, 2008 02:51:48 PM
"Brute Force" is on the old TiVo right now, waiting to be watched. RIP, Mr. Dassin. And thanks for the respectful write up Harry. Although I don't think you used the word "brilliant" enough.

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