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22 September 2009 7:10 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

Proof that resistance isn't necessarily futile after all, The Army Of Crime is the true-life story of the courageous fighters who operated on the back streets of Paris during World War II. Here's a look at them in action, courtesy of the new theatrical trailer. The Army Of Crime, a small band of foreign-born guerillas, were so-called by the Nazis and denounced as terrorists after a campaign of assassination and sabotage that struck panic into the hearts of the occupiers.With shades of Melville's Resistance classic Army Of Shadows, it's this year's other must-see Parisian wartime epic.The Army of Crime is released in UK cinemas on October 2 2009. »

6 September 2009 2:03 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

One of the best parts of this job is when you're granted a look at some rescued or restored gem from the past. It's one thing to review a film when it's new, but it's something else altogether to be given a chance to weigh in on history. Seeing films like Beyond the Rocks (1922), Army of Shadows (1969) and Killer of Sheep (1977) and getting to write about them is very satisfying. A film that was once ignored or maligned can now be re-established as a classic, and established classics can also be debunked.

This past week I had the opportunity to see two out of 22 films that have recently been cleaned out of the Columbia Pictures vaults, dusted off, refurbished and re-struck. All 22 of them are classic examples of film noir, stories about femmes fatale, detectives, criminals, gamblers, lowlifes, killers, or just generally luckless souls who find themselves in the wrong »

- Jeffrey M. Anderson

30 July 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »

Danish director Ole Christian Madsen freely borrows elements of Jean-Pierre Melville’s Army Of Shadows for the Nazi-resistance adventure Flame & Citron, though really, Madsen is indebted to Melville in a much broader, deeper way. Based on the true story of the Holger Danske—one of the more active and successful native sabotage agencies of World War II—Flame & Citron stars Thure Lindhardt as “Flame” and Mads Mikkelsen as “Citron,” two infamous resistance fighters who remain close even as their movement gets consumed with infighting and betrayal. Given the Holger Danske’s extreme secrecy, the Gestapo found the group easy to ... »

3 articles from 2009