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That Nearly Perfect Film
Le Samourai is a masterpiece in the thriller genre that puts most other thrillers to shame. It is both visually and aurally stylish, while providing a taut story with genuine surprises and a strong performance by a charming lead actor. The director of Le Samourai had a profound influence on a... Read full review »
Legendary French Cinema
I’ve been focusing heavily on the critically acclaimed classics since my time of returning to epinions with a specific goal; learning and understanding what separates the truly great movies from the mundane. Occasionally I’ve found myself bored and disappointed, but more often it’s been an... Read full review »
Le Samourai : French Crime Thriller a perfect film? W/O
Le Samourai The perfect film? No. Unique, influential, and an-Emperor-without-clothes? Yes
John Pierre Melville's Le Samourai is a film scholars' wet dream of a movie. It is stylish, accessible, well made, French and a product of American Noir influence and Japanese folklore. Because it's...
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Melville's Tale of a Hitman with the Code of the Samurai
One of the key figures of French cinema, Jean-Pierre Melville was one of the first film directors to create films outside of studios and through his own means. A major influence to the French New Wave movement, Melville's idea to shoot on real locations was something different to his work in...
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Cutting Edge Cinema
The Criterion Collection has reissued this classic European film noir, long considered one of the classics of existential French films tipping a hat at the American genre.
Alain Delon stars, as Jeff Costello is an assassin who lives a solitary life with no friends. Costello begins his new...
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Solitude of a Hitman
Running Time: 95 minutes
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
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There is no greater solitude than the Samurai's, unless perhaps it be that of the tiger in the jungle.
I'm not a great fan of Delon's - too cold for my taste - but that is not to say he isn't a...
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Woo, Besson- the masters learned it here: Jean-Pierre Melville's Strikingly Perfect Le Samourai
One of the best movies to come from the French New Wave movement, Jean-Pierre Melville?s Le Samourai is remarkable. I?m not an authority on French New Wave cinema, but I do know a gem when I see it, and I also know that anyone with a background in French New Wave will certainly appreciate this... Read full review »
Le Samourai (1967)
==Le Samourai==
There is a small bird in a cage in a dull looking apartment room, a man wearing a trench coat and a felt hat, and he goes out of the room and adjusts his hat.
The main actor then jumps into a car, with a set of master keys. He starts the car, and smokes a cigarette...
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Le Samourai: The Minimalist Crime Movie
This is one of the strangest crime movies ever made. Strange, that is, if you?re used to more ?complicated? affairs, like the kind of either old or new Hollywood, in which it would only be natural that a character?s motivation is clearly explained, and that the facts of the crimes will be given... Read full review »
Jean-Pierre: The American-est Director of the French New Wave
Jean-Pierre Melville is one of those directors, like Akira Kurosawa or John Woo, that American audiences just "get." We understand his lonely gangsters, his gray streets, his love of violence and stylized action. It is from American artists, after all, that Melville drew most of his influences -... Read full review »
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Le Samourai - Dvd
When a stoic, icily professional assassin is witnessed leaving the scene of a nightclub "hit" by a barroom pianist who doesn't let on to the cops, he discovers that he's being set up for something worse than jail. New wave noir from Melville, the tough-guy darling of the "Cahiers du Cinema" crowd. Based on the novel "The Ronin" by Joan McLeod.
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Le Samourai (The Criterion Collection)
In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays blue-eyed Jef Costello, a fedora and trench-coat-wearin g contract killer with samurai instincts. When Jef assassinates a nightclub owner, he finds himself confronted by a series of witnesses, who drop his perfect world into the hands of a persistent police investigator and Jef's shadowy employer, both of whom are determined to put an end to the smooth criminal. A razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology. (Criterion Collection)
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Samourai Criterion Collection DVD
When a stoic icily professional assassin is witnessed leaving the scene of a nightclub "hit" by a barroom pianist who doesn't let on to the cops he discovers that he's being set up for something worse than jail. New wave noir from Melville the tough-guy darling of the "Cahiers du Cinema" crowd. Based on the novel "The Ronin" by Joan McLeod.
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