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The entire narrative structure threatens to crumble at any moment, whether Cobb's "Rififi" - like associates, including the dream architect played by
chicagotribune.com - 2010
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Fans of gorgeously detailed black-and-white cinematography don't need a recap on Mr. Dassin ( "Rififi").
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'Big Deal on Madonna Street' 1958 This leisurely, sweet-spirited Italian comedy directed by Mario Monicelli was conceived as a spoof of the now-classic "Rififi," a mesmerizing French-language heist film, directed three years earlier by the American Jules Dassin, that created the template for decades of heist films to come.
Dark Joe Morgenstern 2010
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More than fifty years after its release, "Rififi" retains a gritty realism.
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Fighting was supposed to be the point of "Rififi," the title -- Moroccan-derived gangster slang for "brawl" -- under which the film was to be released in the U.S.
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The title being a neologism, Dassin was obliged to throw in an awkward explanatory scene in which a nightclub singer delivers a song riffing on the concept of "Rififi" ( "execrable" -- Truffaut).
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Instead of a knuckle-slammer, "Rififi" was to become a tone poem.
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More than fifty years after its release, "Rififi" retains a gritty realism.
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"Rififi" and "Never on Sunday"; Elaine May, whose father was a Yiddish actor, and Sidney Lumet, whose father, Boruch, worked with the Yiddish theater in Chicago.
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The movie is not first-rate Dassin, the director of masterpieces like "Rififi" and "Never on Sunday", but it is entertaining enough.
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