UNDERGROUND MEN Author(s): AMY TAUBIN Source: Film Comment, Vol. 42, No. 3 (MAY/JUNE 2006), pp. 50-53 Published by: Film Society of Lincoln Center Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43457247 Accessed: 06-04-2020 10:19 UTC JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at https://about.jstor.org/terms Film Society of Lincoln Center is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Film Comment This content downloaded from 95.183.180.42 on Mon, 06 Apr 2020 10:19:54 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms NOBODY GETS OUT ALIVE IN ARMY OF en ELEGANT, BRUTAL, ANXIETY-PROVOKING, AND OVERWHELMINGLY -y sad, Jean-Pierre Melville's 1969 film Army of Shadows is ^ being released for the first time in the U.S. by Rialto in a splendidly restored 35mm print, whose nearly impenetrable blacks and drained color palette are a tribute to the title. This is the third and final film in which Melville deals directly with the German occupation of France - Le Silence de la Mer (47), his first feature, and Léon Morin, Prêtre (61) were also set j-j-j during the Occupation - and his first and only film devoted to ^ the Resistance.