Assail The Unassailable: Jean Gabin

yes, it's def fun, but the last third has a few too many FL movie cliches. Also a homoerotic Les Miz vibe.

Been watching a lot of Jean Gabin movies lately and am thoroughly convinced that Gabin had the best (frequently employed!) face slap technique in film history. Crisp, businesslike, startling out-of-the-box speed, resounding volume, filling-rattling impact, impeccable form. 10/10

— 𝖇𝖚𝖒𝖕 𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖈𝖐 1776 (@NickPinkerton) June 11, 2019

Jean Gabin: If you haven't seen Rififi (1959) or Razzia Sur le Chnouf (1955), do so at your first opportunity.

I thought Le Jour Se Leve was just a notch down from Quai, tho' Arletty's topless scene in LJSL, brief but clearly erotic and 'daring' in intent, is genuinely startling because you can't imagine anything similar in American or British cinema from the same time.

Ann Dvorak definitely doesn't do anything like that in The Long Night (1947), the bowdlerized American remake.

Spencer Tracy: Supposedly all his early Fox Films have been scheduled for preservation and restoration. The question is will any of those titles ever be seen outside MoMA and a few film festivals (and will Goldie ever be pried out of that collector's hands).

Can’t find it in this thread through Zing but I seem to recall some story that at some point he would demand for every film that the writers come up with a scenery chewing meltdown somewhere in the scenario for him.

My New Releases in #FilmNoir will be posted in a few minutes, but in the meantime, enjoy a drink with Jean Gabin, who has three films coming out on Blu-ray in August. pic.twitter.com/HZRjOpRUDl

— Andy Wolverton (@awolverton77) July 26, 2019

New bio subtitled The Actor Who Was France

http://filmint.nu/?p=28187

ace!

starring Cate Blanchett

If they make a Jean Gabin biopic in English (which God forbid) I hope they cast the guy who played Ryan on the O.C.

i'm trying to imagine how big the perceived audience for that would be...