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Gained experience in theater and radio in New York before going to work in Hollywood in 1940, first with RKO (as assistant director) and then with MGM. Dassin hit his stride in the late 1940s with such dynamic (and still well-regarded) film noir melodramas as "Brute Force" (1947) and "The Naked City" (1948). After being blacklisted he moved to ...
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“There are eight million stories in the Naked City,” as the narrator immortally states at the close of this breathtakingly vivid film—and this is one of them. Master noir craftsman Jules Dassin and newspaperman-cum-producer Mark Hellinger’s dazzling police procedural, The Naked City, was shot on location in New York. As influenced by Italian neorealism as by American crime fiction ...
Aug 3, 2015 · On film noir’s unparalleled roster of resonant titles—Kiss of Death, Out of the Past, and Where Danger Lives, to name three—none is more emblematic or iconographically cogent than Night and the City. Juxtaposing two of noir’s essential, virtually ontological qualities, the title of Jules Dassin’s underrated 1950 elegy for a self-annihilating hustler reminds us not only that ...
A Dynamic Duo: Jules Dassin and Melina Mercouri. Over the course of an eclectic directorial career that spans some forty years, Jules Dassin has worked in Hollywood, London, France, and Greece and has directed film noir, comedy, contemporary versions of the Greek classics, documentaries, and political dramas. After producing three of the most ...
Mar 31, 2022 · March 31, 2022. Director Jules Dassin in Paris 1970 (right), walking with the assistance of his son Joe Dassin, an American-born French singer. Now that our picture is finished, I find that I have a great deal more respect for all motion pictures, even the bad ones, than I had before. However unsatisfactory they may be from the artistic ...
Jules Dassin. Julius „Jules” Dassin (n. 18 decembrie 1911, Middletown, Connecticut – d. 31 martie 2008, Atena, Grecia) a fost un regizor american de film. În timpul McCarthismului a fost pus pe lista neagră de la Hollywood și, prin urmare, s-a mutat în Franța .
