French cinema also was the birthplace for many sub-genres of the crime film, most notably the modern caper film, starting with 1955's Rififi by American-born director Jules Dassin and followed by a large number of serious, noirish heist dramas as well as playful caper comedies throughout the sixties, and the " polar ," a typical French blend of film noir and detective fiction.

Dassin's most influential film was Rififi, an early work in the " heist film " genre.

After he was blacklisted from Hollywood, Dassin found work in France where he was asked to direct Rififi.

Rififi was nominated by the National Board of Review for Best Foreign Film.

Rififi was re-released theatrically in 2000 and is still highly acclaimed by modern film critics as one of the greatest works in French film noir.

The film Rififi was originally to be directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, a later luminary of the heist film genre.

Rififi was filmed during the wintertime in Paris and used real locations rather than studio sets.

Rififi was banned in Finland in the late 1950s.

Rififi was a popular success in France which led to several other Rififi films based on le Breton's stories.

On its United Kingdom release, Rififi was paired with the British science fiction film The Quatermass Xperiment as a double bill ; this went on to be the most successful double-bill release in UK cinemas in all of 1955.

Rififi was released in the United States first with subtitles and then later with an English dub under the title Rififi ... Means Trouble !.

In the United Kingdom, Rififi was released on DVD by Arrow Films on April 21, 2003, and on Region B Blu-ray by the same publisher on May 9, 2011.

Grave of Georges AuricEspecially notable among his film music is the lavishly impressionistic score that he wrote for Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast ( 1946 ); other films include Passport to Pimlico ( 1948 ), Silent Dust ( 1949 ), The Lavender Hill Mob ( 1951 ), Moulin Rouge ( 1952 ), The Titfield Thunderbolt ( 1953 ), Roman Holiday ( 1953 ), The Wages of Fear ( 1953 ), The Divided Heart ( 1954 ), Lola Montes ( 1955 ), Rififi ( 1956 ), The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1956 ), Bonjour Tristesse ( 1958 ), The Night Heaven Fell ( 1958 ), Goodbye Again ( 1961 ), and Therese and Isabelle ( 1968 ).

It later premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, in 1979, where Malick won the award for Best Director — making him the first American director to win the award since Jules Dassin in 1955 for Rififi ( in a joint win shared with two other directors ).

He shot Rififi while working with a low budget, without a star cast, and with the production staff working for low wages.

In North America, Rififi has been released on both VHS and DVD.

To accomplish this, they enlist the help of another local thief that is an expert on safes who tells them of a plan ( similar to that of the film Rififi, released a few years prior in 1955 ) to silence the alarm of the safe that they may break into it safely.

The classic film noir period of the 1940s and 1950s brought the genre to fame, by focusing more explicitly on the heists themselves, with such films as John Huston's Asphalt Jungle, Jules Dassin's Rififi, Jean-Pierre Melville's Bob le flambeur and Le Cercle Rouge, Stanley Kubrick's The Killing or Mario Monicelli's Big Deal on Madonna Street.

Rififi debuted in France on April 13, 1955.

" Rififi placed at number 90 on Empires list of The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema.

In 1993, six works by Picasso and two by Georges Braque totaling more than £ 40m were stolen from the museum in a renowned coup where the burglars came in through the roof by night, copying the method from the 1955 French movie Rififi ( French: Du rififi chez les hommes ).

Using his native English, Dassin wrote the screenplay to Rififi in six days with the help of screenwriter René Wheeler, who subsequently took the material and translated it to French.

In 2005, Variety announced that Stone Village Pictures acquired the remake rights to Rififi ; the producers intending to place the film in a modern setting with Al Pacino taking the lead role .< ref name =" variety ">

" French critic André Bazin said that Rififi brought the genre a " sincerity and humanity that break with the conventions of a crime film, and manage to touch our hearts ".

With its taut silent robbery sequence, his movie gestures backwards to Rififi, and with Montand's specially modified bullets it anticipates Frederick Forsyth's Day of the Jackal and the contemporary techno-thriller.

Dassin did not work as a film director again until Rififi in 1955 ( a French production ).

For his 1956 film Rififi, Dassin earned the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Dassin received an offer from an agent in Paris, France where he met producer Henri Bérard who had acquired the rights to Auguste le Breton's popular crime novel Du Rififi chez les hommes.

In 2001, Dassin admitted that he somewhat regretted the Rififi theme song, utilized only to explain the film's title which is never mentioned by any other film characters.

Upon its original release, film critic and future director François Truffaut praised the film, stating that " Out of the worst crime novels I ever read, Jules Dassin has made the best crime film I've ever seen " and " Everything in Le Rififi is intelligent: screenplay, dialogue, sets, music, choice of actors.

More recently, critic Dennis Schwartz wrote, " Jules Dassin ( Rififi and Naked City ) directs this hard-hitting but outdated crime drama concerned about prison conditions ...

In the 1950s, he displayed a brooding, haunted demeanor in the crime drama Rififi ( 1955 )( which François Truffaut ranked as the best film noir ) directed by Jules Dassin, in which he played an embittered and physically ailing leader of a gang of jewel thieves.

The Palace Cinema has since been converted to become Rififi Nightclub and Amber Lounge Bar & Restaurant.

Examples of crime thrillers involving heists or robberies includes The Asphalt Jungle, The Score, Rififi, Entrapment and The Killing.

As the film's heist scene bears a striking resemblance to that of the film Rififi, the film is often considered a parody of that film.

The 1955 French film Rififi, which critics such as Leonard Maltin have labeled as the best heist film ever, drew much inspiration from The Asphalt Jungle.

Rififi () is a 1955 French crime film adaptation of Auguste le Breton's novel of the same name.

Thus a third style, the " curved lip " style was produced, and all official and third-party cartridges during the console's lifespan were released ( or re-released ) using this style.

The film was released on VHS in the U. S. in 1992 by Fox Video and re-released in 1995 under the " Twentieth Century Fox Selections " banner.

" Of the three, " See That My Grave Is Kept Clean " became such a big hit that it was re-recorded and re-released in 1928.

Although the film had originally been released in 1952, due to Chaplin's political difficulties at the time, it did not play for one week in Los Angeles, and thus did not meet the criterion for nomination until it was re-released in 1972.

The film was re-released in the US in 2002.

This was the case with the overseas versions of Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid and Rogue Galaxy, which contained additional features ( such as new difficulty settings for Metal Gear Solid ), resulting in re-released versions of those respective games in Japan ( Final Fantasy VII International, Metal Gear Solid: Integral and Rogue Galaxy: Director's Cut ).

A few exceptions include Guided by Voices ' 1994 album Bee Thousand, which was re-released as a three disc vinyl LP Director's cut in 2004, and Fall Out Boy's 2003 album Take This to Your Grave, which was re-released as a Director's cut in 2005 with two extra tracks.

His back catalogue was now highly sought: The Man Who Sold the World had been re-released in 1972 along with Space Oddity.

The film was re-released in March 2010 as part of The Evil Dead Cross Country Tour, which began in the NuArt Theatre in West Los Angeles.

It was re-released on July 22, 1972 and sold approximately 760, 000 tickets.

The ' Runequest II game system was retitled " Legends ", and Gloranthan material removed from the re-released rules.

In early 1999, the source code of Heretic was published by Raven Software under a license that granted rights to non-commercial use, and was re-released under the GNU General Public License on September 4, 2008.

In 1999 the source code for Hexen was released by Raven Software under a license that granted rights to non-commercial use, and was re-released under the GNU General Public License on September 4, 2008.

In any event, it was re-released to great acclaim in 1988.

It was later re-released for the Game Boy Advance in 2004, and for the Wii's Virtual Console online service in 2007.

In August 2004, Kid Icarus was re-released in Japan as part of the Famicom Mini Disk System Selection for the Game Boy Advance.

The album was re-released in an expanded single-CD version by Rhino in 2001, featuring alternate mixes, outtakes and the group's 1968 single, " Your Mind and We Belong Together "/" Laughing Stock ", the last tracks that featured the " Forever Changes " line-up of Johnny Echols, Ken Forssi, Michael Stuart and Bryan MacLean ( Forssi and MacLean both died in 1998 ).

On 30 April 2004, Life of Brian was re-released on five North American screens to " cash in " ( as Terry Jones put it ) on the box office success of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ.

" Always Look on the Bright Side of Life " was later re-released with great success, after being sung by British football fans.

The debut album was then re-mixed by producer Roy Thomas Baker and re-released on August 20, 1982, two months after its Canadian Warner Music Group release using the original Leathür mixes, to coincide with the tour.