Channel 4 and Canal+ are making an 'Army of Shadows' drama from Ronan Bennett based on the 1969 Jean Pierre Melville movie.

Ronan Bennett, the creator of Peacock's The Day of the Jackal, is remaking another beloved movie as a series, this time based ...

The Day Of The Jackal's Ronan Bennett is reimagining Jean-Pierre Melville's Army Of Shadows as a show about occupied Britain.

Ronan Bennett is heading back to U.K. network Channel 4 for the first time since his breakout hit “Top Boy.” The ...

‘Army of Shadows,’ Considered by Many To Be Director Jean-Pierre Melville’s Finest, Soars Anew After Rising From Ashes The film was vilified in France at the time of its release and received sparse ...

In Army of Shadows, Melville documents the fight to stay alive, with the constant threat of being double-crossed and the ever-present challenges of finding safe houses to hide in, plotting escape ...

Army of Shadows offers a spot-on snapshot of the Resistance’s operations in the early 1940s, but by the time the movie hit theaters in 1969, French audiences viewed Charles de Gaulle (depicted ...

Army Of Shadows is a movie about survival and the necessity of gut-wrenching, soul-destroying actions in the service of a larger cause; for Gerbier and his comrades, it’s all sacrifice and no ...

Army of Shadows is about real people resisting an occupation, it is about tension building without the hope of release. In muffled style and execution, the film reminded me particularly of a scene in ...

Army of ShadowsFrench filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville, who died in 1973 at the age of 55, is best known for his perfectly taciturn gangster flicks — Bob le Flambeur, Le Cercle Rouge, Le Samourai ...

Army of ShadowsMaybe it was because he refused to cozy up to the French New Wave. Or maybe it was because he could be a bit of a bastard. Whatever the case, Jean-Pierre Melville never enjoyed the ...