‘We Want the Finest Films Known To Humanity’ - Handmade Films 1978-2013. By Simon Thompson. Handmade Films was a British filmmaking Icarus, a studio which achieved so much so quickly, but burnt out in spectacular fashion. The brainchild of George Harrison (my favourite Beatle) and his business manager/attorney Denis O‘Brien,

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Jean Pierre Melville, French Cinema’s Forgotten Man: Part Two. By Simon Thompson. Part One here. A seasoned auteur Melville’s hard-boiled era would begin in earnest with his movie Le deuxième souffle / Second Breath (1966). An ambitious and sweeping gangster flick in the vein of Le Doulos, Second Breath tells the story of

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Jean Pierre Melville, French Cinema’s Forgotten Man: Part One. By Simon Thompson. Jean Pierre Melville is a director with a career that is simultaneously both easy and difficult to categorise at the same time. While he is primarily known for re-inventing gangster movies through his distinct visual style and moody