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STILL URGENT: Sporting a freewheeling narrative, an irresistible soundtrack, complex performances, and startling imagery, Z carries out its agenda with compulsive brio.

"LE COMBAT DANS L'ILE" -- Who knows how many more great, almost forgotten old films are just waiting to be rediscovered? Alan Cavalier's slipped-through-the-cracks 1962 thriller/romantic drama, produced by Louis Malle, has been figuratively excavated, restored and brought to these shores for exposure it richly deserves.

Genre: Drama Release Date: 11/06/2009 Running Time: 104 mins Director: Alain Cavalier Producer: Distributor: Nouvelles A Buy Tickets Le Combat Dans L'ile Alain Cavalier's 1962 Le Combat Dans L'ile isn't a lost masterpiece-it's too unstable for that-but it's fascinatingly nervy.

Release Date: Oct. 27, 2009 Original Theatrical Release: Dec. 8, 1969 Director: Costa-Gavras Writer: Vasilis Vasilikos, Jorge SemprAon Cinematography: Raoul Coutard Starring: Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant Runtime: 127 minutes Repressed Greek political thriller builds slowly but remains powerful and relevant In the opening ...

There is a moment near the conclusion of Greek director Costa-Gavras' 1969 film Z that is truly dejecting.

Any similarity to real persons and events is not coincidental. IT IS INTENTIONAL.

Costa-Gavras' fiery conspiracy thriller Z won the Best - Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1970.

All the glamour of 1950s Hollywood with a surprisingly real emotional core. Not quite a weekend in Rome, but definitely getting there.

When Costa-Gavras' fact-based political thriller "Z" was released in 1969, its tale of one principled man's investigation into political murder and skullduggery drew comparisons with the My Lai massacre, the Algerian War and the trial of the Chicago Seven.

Set partly on a train headed toward the southern French city of Limoges, this self-important and humorless drama is packed with unsympathetic characters suffering crises so grandiose as to be simply boring.

Set partly on a train headed toward the southern French city of Limoges, this self-important and humorless drama is packed with unsympathetic characters suffering crises so grandiose as to be simply boring.

As designated political filmmaker to the world, Costa-Gavras has few colleagues and possibly no peers.

In "The Conformist," Bertolucci's 1970 film about the moral corruption and aesthetic decadence of Italy under Mussolini, the French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant laid bare some of the psychological dimensions of the Fascist personality with a sinister precision rarely matched before or since.

Wednesday, June 03, 2009 John Esther: Costas Gavras Talks About Z , 40 Years Later A riveting action thriller about political assassination at the highest levels, this year marks the 40th anniversary of Z ... the Academy Award-winning 1969 film co-written and directed by Costas Gavras about a Judge who looks into the death of the Deputy who was ...