The shop received a shipment from France containing seven restocks today. Among the titles included were top sellers like Brian De Palma’s “Body Double” and Jacques Tourneur’s “Curse of the Demon,” as well as a pair of 50’s films starring Jean Gabin (“France’s Sad-Eyed Cagney” as the title of a Dave Kehr piece once called him): Gilles Grangier’s hardboiled “The Night Affair” and Georges Lampin’s adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s “Crime & Punishment,” in which Gabin plays Commissioner Gallet with the unflappability of a guy who’s seen everything and in control at all times, a common trait in the later work of an actor who’d once been the face of French poetic realism.
Today’s Arrivals: 7/21/16
The shop received a shipment from France containing seven restocks today. Among the titles included were top sellers like Brian De Palma’s “Body Double” and Jacques Tourneur’s “Curse of the Demon,” as well as a pair of 50’s films starring Jean Gabin (“France’s Sad-Eyed Cagney” as the title of a Dave Kehr piece once called him): Gilles Grangier’s hardboiled “The Night Affair” and Georges Lampin’s adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s “Crime & Punishment,” in which Gabin plays Commissioner Gallet with the unflappability of a guy who’s seen everything and in control at all times, a common trait in the later work of an actor who’d once been the face of French poetic realism.