The Film Sufi

The term “film noir” was originally coined by French film critics to refer to Hollywood B-grade films of the 1930s and 1940s that concer...

Although the ultimate nature of love is unfathomable (at least within the terms used by our modernist perspective), it does seem someho...

Jean-Pierre Melville’s second feature film, Les Enfants Terribles (1950), came well before his dazzling string of films noir that esta...

Film noir master Jean-Pierre Melville’s penultimate film, Le Cercle Rouge ( The Red Circle , 1970), was perhaps his greatest and most ...

The 400 Blows ( Les Quatre Cents Coups , 1959), written and directed by Francois Truffaut , stands as a landmark film in several respects ...