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DESCRIPTION:Conducted every 10 years\, the Sight & Sound Best Movies of All
  Time poll is voted on by film critics\, writers\, professors and other ex
 perts in the field of cinema. Although the primary list consists of 100 mo
 vies\, the poll actually includes a total of 200 films. The Cosford Cinema
  will be showcasing ten selections from the second half of the list every 
 Sunday over the fall from Sept. 10-Dec. 3.\n\n \n\nARMY OF SHADOWS | 1969 
 | DIRECTOR: Jean-Pierre Melville | WITH: Lino Ventura\, Paul Meurisse\, Je
 an-Pierre Cassel\, Simone Signoret\, Claude Mann | RUNNING TIME: 2 HOURS 2
 5 MINUTES | UNRATED: Brief but disturbing violence\, intense scenes\, mild
  language | In French\, Italian and English with English subtitles | 4K di
 gital projection\n\n \n\nThe most personal film by the underworld poet Jea
 n-Pierre Melville\, who had participated in the French Resistance himself\
 , this tragic masterpiece\, based on a novel by Joseph Kessel\, recounts t
 he struggles and sacrifices of those who fought in the Resistance.\n\n \n\
 nLino Ventura\, Paul Meurisse\, Jean-Pierre Cassel\, and the incomparable 
 Simone Signoret star as intrepid underground fighters who must grapple wit
 h their conception of honor in their battle against Hitler’s regime.\n\n
  \n\nLong underappreciated in France and unseen in the United States\, the
  atmospheric and gripping thriller Army of Shadows is now widely recognize
 d as the summit of Melville’s career\, channeling the exquisite minimali
 sm of his gangster films to create an unsparing tale of defiance in the fa
 ce of seemingly insurmountable odds.\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n"As with so many of
  Melville’s noirs\, doom lies in wait for those reckless or foolish enou
 gh to deviate from their prescribed obligations and loyalties\, and Army o
 f Shadows extends the filmmaker’s pessimism even further than is customa
 ry across his work. Melville’s outlook\, though\, ultimately reflects th
 e fundamentally ambiguous realities of war\, the ethical and emotional deg
 eneration but also the honor.\n\n \n\n"Melville captures the unbearable in
 timacy of murder and the terrible spiritual and psychological toll suffere
 d by those mired in combat. And yet in this unremitting watchfulness\, the
  director also locates the ascetic dignity in his characters' willingness 
 to make\, and carry out\, the ugliest of choices and sacrifices—a stark 
 reminder that\, for better and worse\, what war creates is not simple hero
 es or villains but\, rather\, warriors." -- Nick Schrager\, Slant Magazine
 \n\n \n\nTickets are $5 and available at link above. UM students use code 
 UMSTUDENT at checkout (must show Cane Card at the door).
GEO:25.722709;-80.276887
LOCATION:Bill Cosford Cinema\, Dooly Memorial 225
SUMMARY:SIGHT & SOUND DEEP CUTS: "ARMY OF SHADOWS" (1969)
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 shadows_1969
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