#le samourai 1967

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[bootyandgeekeries]

Late to the party but this movie lives up to its reputation 'til this day. Similar vibes than The Killer by Fincher even though I prefer this one

[andhorsestoo]

Watched about an hour of Le Samouraï with my grandma before she went to bed. I can't remember the last time anything I watched attracted her. And of course when it finally did, it had to be a 60's French film following a young, cool hitman. She can't speak French, and she refused to read the subtitles. What a woman. Bless her.

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part of me wants a boyfriend because i’m a contrarian. i might also be bi but i have no way to confirm it

[romanceyourdemons]

if a movie is called “samurai” or “ronin” or something like that it has a 20% chance of being about actual samurai or ronin and an 80% chance of being about a deeply sad late 20th century european hitman

[hey-scully-itsme]

tagged by @mooseofthesea!! Thanks!!

Rules: seven comfort films, seven people.

In no particular order:

The Black Stallion (1979)

Le Samourai (1967)

Master and Commander (2003)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

Another Round (2020)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

tagging @fbi-2nd-most-unwanted @keistance @mxlxdroit @cinemaocd @rubeum-et-nigrum @quietsea @cutemothman

[strathshepard]

Alain Delon and Cathy Rosier in Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967)

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Le Samouraï (1967)

I decided to continue watching Alain Delon's movies and this is the third time, and these gifs were from his movie called "Le Samourai".

The movie starts with a long introduction, and a man named Jef Costello on the bed. Then proceeded to go out stealing a car, by using his set of keys. He had a mechanic who fixes the plate number of the car and to whom he buys his guns. He also went to his girlfriend Jane, then he goes to this bar and kills the owner, some people saw him but didn't fully notice his face, except for Valerie, the pianist who works there.

Since the day of the murder the police conducted an interrogation and investigation to people who have been in the bar, the staff was there to assess who the killer is but nobody recognizes him. When Valerie was asked she denied to them that Jef was the suspect. When he would claim his money, he was gunned by his employer and escaped from him before he could pull the trigger, he was injured.

The police keep Jef Costello on their radar, assuming in the movie that the people who hired him to kill Martey betrayed him by reporting it to the police. He was hunted throughout the Paris Metro and was able to lose them, though in the end he was still killed because I bet he knows he doesn't have anymore choice now and he will die anyway. So he points the gun at the pianist and he was shot 4 times, the police checked his gun and to their shock there were no bullets inside.

What I like about this is the emptiness and straight to the point of the sequence, it has also limited dialogues from delon and more into action and gut wrenching feeling, thrilling. I also love the cinematic and the nostalgic feeling it gives me. Delon's acting is on point, he was able to portray a hitman's unemotional personality. I have downloaded it to the torrent and now devouring every scene. I will rate it 8/10 👍

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A Film A Year

Going through an old hard drive today I found this almost-completed list from 2015 in which I'd set myself the task of choosing a single film for each year of the preceding hundred. It was interesting to see in what ways my tastes had changed and just how many more films I'd discovered and fallen in love with in the meantime.

Anyways, I thought I'd finish it off and update it to the present: I very much tried to keep it to just one film per year, but the competition some years was just too high so they've had to share joint first places:

1915 A Night In The Show 1916 The Vagabond 1917 Easy Street 1918 A Dog's Life 1919 Sunnyside 1920 One Week 1921 The Kid 1922 Dr Mabuse, The Gambler 1923 Safety Last / Why Worry? 1924 Sherlock Jr / The Last Laugh 1925 The Gold Rush 1926 The General 1927 Sunrise / Seventh Heaven 1928 The Last Command / Steamboat Jr. / The Man Who Laughs / The Passion of Joan of Arc 1929 The Love Parade / Un Chien Andalou / Lucky Star 1930 All Quiet On The Western Front 1931 City Lights/ The Smiling Lieutenant 1932 Horse Feathers / Love Me Tonight 1933 Duck Soup / The Invisible Man 1934 It Happened One Night 1935 The 39 Steps 1936 My Man Godfrey 1937 Nothing Sacred 1938 Adventures Of Robin Hood / Pygmalion 1939 The Cat And The Canary / The Wizard of Oz / The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1940 His Girl Friday / Pinocchio 1941 Citizen Kane / The Maltese Falcon / Dumbo / Sullivan's Travels 1942 Casablanca 1943 Le Corbeau 1944 Arsenic & Old Lace 1945 Les Enfants du Paradis / And Then There Were None 1946 A Matter of Life and Death 1947 Black Narcissus 1948 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1949 The Third Man / Kind Hearts & Coronets 1950 Sunset Blvd. / La Ronde 1951 A Streetcar Named Desire 1952 Singin' In The Rain / Le Plaisir 1953 Calamity Jane 1954 Hobson's Choice 1955 The Night Of The Hunter /The Ladykillers 1956 The Searchers 1957 The Seventh Seal 1958 Vertigo 1959 North By Northwest / Ballad of A Soldier 1960 Psycho / The Virgin Spring / Two Women 1961 Breakfast At Tiffanys 1962 Le Doulos 1963 The Great Escape / The Birds 1964 Onibaba 1965 For A Few Dollars More 1966 Blow Up 1967 Le Samourai / Cool Hand Luke 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey 1969 Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid 1970 Le Cercle Rouge 1971 Get Carter / Harold & Maude 1972 The Godfather 1973 Don't Look Now 1974 The Godfather Part II / Chinatown 1975 Jaws / The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1976 Network 1977 Star Wars / Annie Hall 1978 Halloween / Superman 1979 Apocalypse Now / Alien / Life Of Brian / Manhattan 1980 Stardust Memories / Raging Bull 1981 Raiders Of The Lost Ark 1982 Blade Runner / The Thing 1983 The Dead Zone / Zelig 1984 Ghostbusters / The Terminator / Blood Simple 1985 Back To The Future 1986 Hannah & Her Sisters / The Fly 1987 Withnail & I / Wings of Desire 1988 Dangerous Liaisons 1989 Crimes & Misdemeanors / Dead Poets Society 1990 Goodfellas 1991 The Silence of The Lambs / Terminator 2 1992 Reservoir Dogs / The Player 1993 Schindler's List / Groundhog Day 1994 Pulp Fiction 1995 Se7en / Casino / The Usual Suspects 1996 Fargo 1997 LA Confidential / Grosse Point Blank / Boogie Nights 1998 The Truman Show / Happiness / Buffalo '66 1999 American Beauty / Magnolia / Being John Malkovich / Fight Club 2000 Memento 2001 Mulholland Drive / The Royal Tennenbaums / The Piano Teacher 2002 Adaptation / The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2003 Lost In Translation 2004 Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind / The Life Aquatic 2005 Me & You & Everyone We Know 2006 The Prestige / Perfume 2007 No Country For Old Men / There Will Be Blood 2008 The Dark Knight / Let The Right One In / Tropic Thunder 2009 Cold Souls / Up / Zombieland 2010 I Saw The Devil / The Ghost Writer 2011 The Hidden Face 2012 The Avengers 2013 Her 2014 The Grand Budapest Hotel / The Winter Soldier 2015 The Survivalist / The Lobster 2016 Like Crazy 2017 Coco 2018 Deadpool 2 2019 The Irishman 2020 Kajillionaire 2021 The French Dispatch 2022 The Banshees of Inisherin

[omercifulheaves]

Le Samourai (1967)

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Le Samourai (1967)

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[kiwiseaside]

Alain Delon in Le Samourai (1967)

[brainpickings]

Variety’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of All Time

Well these are always fun for debate, in my humble opinion there are way to many American movies on this list. 

100 The Graduate 1967

97 Alien 1979

96 A Hard Day’s Night 1964

95 Toy Story 1995

94 Bridesmaids 2011

93 Le Samourai 1967 France

92 Pink Flamingos 1972

91 Scenes From a Marriage 1974 Sweden

90 The Shining 1980

89 Belle de Jour 1967 France

88 Malcolm X 1992

87 The Sound of Music 1965

86 Close-Up 1990 Iran

85 Natural Born Killers 1994

84 Pan’s Labyrinth 2006

83 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979

82 Parasite 2019 South Korea

81 The Dark Knight 2008

80 Pixote 1980 Brazil

79 Waiting for Guffman 1996

78 Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1975 Belgium

77 Goldfinger 1964

76 The Tree of Life 2011

75 Boogie Nights 1997

74 My Neighbor Totoro 1988 Japan

73 Intolerance 1916

72 Breaking the Waves 1996

71 My Best Friend’s Wedding 1997

70 12 Years a Slave 2013

69 Beau Travail 1999 France

68 King Kong 1933

67 Bicycle Thieves 1948 Italy

66 Paris Is Burning 1990

65 A Man Escaped 1956 France

64 Carrie 1976

63 Bambi 1942

62 Dazed and Confused 1993

61 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 France

60 Moulin Rouge! 2001

59 Vagabond 1985 France

58 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

57 Brokeback Mountain 2005

56 Rosemary’s Baby 1968

55 Pather Panchali 1955 Bengali

54 The Road Warrior 1981

53 In the Mood for Love 2000 China

52 The General 1926

51 Apocalypse Now 1976

50 Breathless 1960 France

49 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974

48 The Piano 1993

47 Mean Streets 1973

46 Notorious 1946

45 Titanic 1997

44 L’Avventura 1960

43 Shoah 1985

42 Moonlight 2016

41 The Wild Bunch 1969

40 Fargo 1996

39 Some Like It Hot 1959

38 Lawrence of Arabia 1962

37 Annie Hall 1977

36 On the Waterfront 1954

35 The Silence of the Lambs 1991

34 Stagecoach 1939

33 8 1/2 1963

32 Vertigo 1958

31 Network 1976

30 The Empire Strikes Back 1980

29 Double Indemnity 1944

28 City Lights 1931

27 Bonnie and Clyde 1967

26 The 400 Blows 1959 France

25 Bringing Up Baby 1938

24 Tokyo Story 1953 Japan

23 The Apartment 1960

22 Chinatown 1974

21 Gone With the Wind 1939

20 Blue Velvet 1986

19 The Godfather Part II 1974

18 Persona 1966 Sweden

17 Nashville 1975

16 Casablanca 1942

15 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927

14 Do the Right Thing 1989

13 The Rules of the Game 1939 France

12 Goodfellas 1990

11 Singin’ in the Rain 1952

10 Saving Private Ryan 1998

9 All About Eve 1950

8 It’s a Wonderful Life 1946

7 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968

6 Seven Samurai 1954

5 Pulp Fiction 1994

4 Citizen Kane 1941

3 The Godfather 1972

2 The Wizard of Oz 1939

1 Psycho 1960

[romanceyourdemons]

that post “the killer is now on netflix” got me SO excited bc the killer (1989) is one of my all time favorite movies and the full english subbed upload on youtube finally got taken down a few months ago, and i was so hyped that netflix finally picked it up. but no. it’s just some new le samourai (1967) wannabe with michael fucking fassbender this is shit

[a-perfect-parisian-day]

Alain Delon in Le Samourai, 1967