Slog - Comments on No More Dasein for Dassin. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/no_more_dasein_for_dassin The man who created the greatest heist sequence in all of cinema (it's in Rififi) is now dead to us and himself. American film director Jules Dassin has died in an Athens hospital after a short illness, at the age of 96. Blacklisted in Hollywood after WWII, he went to Europe where he married the late Greek actress and later culture minister Melina Mercouri... Mr Dassin was born in the US state of Connecticut on 18 December 1911. He worked as an actor and theatre producer before becoming an assistant to film director Alfred Hitchcock. He was active in leftist... Copyright 2008 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:29:27 -0800 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:13:59 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Mr. Poe Rififi owns--but when that chick sings the Rififi song, I'm pretty sure she adds another "fi" to it, which annoyed me. Or maybe I was stoned and I'm entirely wrong. Stoned in Film History...yep. Sounds about right.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/no_more_dasein_for_dassin#c987127 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/no_more_dasein_for_dassin#c987127 Film Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:31:12 -0800 Comment by kinaidos And Richard Widmark (star of Dassin's Noir classic Night and the City) just died last week. It's kind of funny that two of the giants of Film Noir lived such long and seemingly happy lives.

]]> kinaidos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/no_more_dasein_for_dassin#c987133 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/no_more_dasein_for_dassin#c987133 Film Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:35:07 -0800 Comment by elswinger I just bought The Naked City, Night and the City, and Brute Force a couple weeks ago. I'll have to go back and Rififi.

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/no_more_dasein_for_dassin#c987146 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/no_more_dasein_for_dassin#c987146 Film Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:42:56 -0800 Comment by l'ete indien Huh. 96. That's a good run. (Coincidentally, I was watching Topkapi last night). Maybe he wasn't so happy...his only son died young...the suave, melodic singer, Joe Dassin.

]]> l'ete indien http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/no_more_dasein_for_dassin#c987154 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/no_more_dasein_for_dassin#c987154 Film Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:46:34 -0800 Comment by Paulus Damn, that's a fine movie.

]]> Paulus http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/no_more_dasein_for_dassin#c987206 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/no_more_dasein_for_dassin#c987206 Film Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:21:48 -0800 Comment by Kim Scarborough Sigh. He wasn't just "active in leftist politics", he was a Communist. Period. Rififi was a great film (I own the DVD), but it's irritating that everybody still whitewashes the politics of that whole Stalinist crowd. Triumph of the Will was a great film too, but I don't think too many people wrote Leni Reifenstall was "active in right-wing politics" instead of that she was simply a Nazi.

]]> Kim Scarborough http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/no_more_dasein_for_dassin#c987234 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/no_more_dasein_for_dassin#c987234 Film Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:39:00 -0800 Comment by ivan "Rififi" at least is one of the top ten cops and robbers movies ever made, and arguably the best.

]]> ivan http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/no_more_dasein_for_dassin#c987337 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/no_more_dasein_for_dassin#c987337 Film Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:01:56 -0800 Comment by LMSW @6 Thank you for pointing out that JD was a communist. I didn't know that. However, it seems reductionist to imply that all communists are the same as Stalinists and are all the same the way all Nazis were Nazi's. Communism has been too broad a movement with many variants to be considered all the same as the policies of Stalin.

Yup, Rafifi was a great film. I was under the impression it was banned here for a long time because its' depiction of junkie kidnappers was too harsh for American audiences of the time.

]]> LMSW http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/no_more_dasein_for_dassin#c987612 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/no_more_dasein_for_dassin#c987612 Film Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:13:59 -0800