Rialto Pictures has sent us a brand new trailer for Jules Dassin's classic gangster film Rififi (1955), starring Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel, Janine Darcey, Pierre Grasset, and Jules Dassin.
Recently restored, Rififi will be screened at Film Forum in New City and Laemmle Theaters in Los Angeles.
SCREENINGS:
September 2 – 8 NEW YORK, NY Film Forum
September 4 – 10 WEST LOS ANGELES, CA Laemmle's Royal
In the United States, the new restoration is already out on Blu-ray courtesy of Criterion.
Synopsis: After making such American noir classics as Brute Force and The Naked City, the blacklisted director Jules Dassin went to Paris and embarked on his masterpiece: a twisting, turning tale of four ex-cons who hatch one last glorious robbery in the City of Light. Rififi is the ultimate heist movie, a melange of suspense, brutality, and dark humor that was an international hit, earned Dassin the best director prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and has proven wildly influential on decades of heist thrillers in its wake.