How the hell can the New York Film Critics Circle choose
Army of Shadows as the year's best foreign-language film? It's nearly forty years old, a classic thriller of the French Resistance, directed and adapted from Joseph Kessel's 1943 novel by Jean-Pierre Melville, who served in the Resistance himself. Since the film never received a U.S. release till now, it won the prize on a technicality. But you won't protest when you see the film that Rialto Pictures is opening across the country in a