JULES DASSIN? OR JACQUES DAISSANT?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk_qX2VXycEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk_qX2VXycE. This weekend TCM showed Jules Dassin’s masterful ‘Rififi’ (1955) and I began a deep-ish dive into the enigmatic man behind the name. For years he was thought by many to be French–he did, after all, direct the premiere French noir crime-drama of the 1950s. But Dassin, in fact, was
July 28, 2025
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