Army of Shadows DVD China - It's Not Always Cloudy

- It's Not Always Cloudy (1949): Karel Kachyňa’s rediscovered feature-length semi-documentary graduation film

Welles marries thriller suspense and avant-garde filming techniques in his adaptation of the Kafka story of a bureaucrat who is arrested and stands trial without ever knowing the charges

darkly comic drama with a moral and emotional complexity

myth-inspired method that has galvanised Hollywood's treatment of cinematic storytelling

Von Sternberg's first 'talkie'

Army of Shadows DVD China - It's Not Always Cloudy'Army of Shadows' Director: Jean Pierre Melville (1969) StudioCanal DVD French & German w English subtitles The most personal film by the underworld poet Jean Pierre Melville, who had participated in the French Resistance himself, this tragic masterpiece based on a novel by Joseph Kessel is an atmospheric and gripping thriller that recounts the struggles and sacrifices of those who fought in the Resistance. Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean Pierre