The 1955 French film-noir “Rififi,” which is playing through June 30 through the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Virtual Cinema streaming platform, is about an aging, embittered criminal who’s just ...

“Rififi”: Often called the granddaddy of all heist pictures, Jules Dassin’s 1955 French film noir has been restored and screens for a week at the Roxie — good news indeed. Dassin’s name sounds French, ...

Ever since its release in 1955, the French crime thriller “Rififi” has been celebrated for the 30-minute jewel heist segment that could be the finest thing of its kind ever put on film. But this ...

Scott Steindorff’s Stone Village Pictures has acquired remake rights to the 1955 French heist classic “Rififi” and will make a contemporized version starring Al Pacino and directed by Harold Becker.

The best of all heist movies, Jules Dassin’s tough-minded clockwork thriller Rififi, from 1955, is also one of the great films about process, about prepping for and grinding through small challenges, ...

Esteem is a perishable commodity among filmmakers; directors lionized in their prime fall from grace into ignominy or, worse, anonymity. The movies stay the same; only the social fashions change. Of ...

You’ve got two chances this week to see Rififi on the big screen at the Loft Cinema: Sunday, June 12, at 1 p.m. and Tuesday, June 14, at 7 p.m. Both screenings are free, although The Loft does suggest ...

“Now You See Me,” which opens Friday, is a caper thriller starring Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo and Oscar-winners Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine. The film is about an FBI agent and an Interpol ...