...unless it is that of the tiger in the jungle...perhaps...
October 24, 2013 1:27 AM Subscribe
"...What I have to say is very simple and very short: He's the greatest director I've had the good fortune, pleasure and honor to work with up to this point. It'd take too long to explain. He's wonderful. He knows more about cinema than anyone. He's the greatest director I know, the greatest cameraman, the best at framing and lighting, the best at everything. He's a living encyclopedia of cinema."
-Alain Delon
Le Samouraï: Jean-Pierre Melville's Work of Art
via the best film blog to ever exist, Cinephilia and Beyond
-Alain Delon
Le Samouraï: Jean-Pierre Melville's Work of Art
via the best film blog to ever exist, Cinephilia and Beyond
Serious. He'd just have to light a cigarette and smoulder at me.
posted by Sebmojo at 2:55 AM on October 24, 2013
posted by Sebmojo at 2:55 AM on October 24, 2013
Timshel - are you reading my mind? Because I was thinking about this movie - completely for no reason - just this morning. I've no idea why, but the scene where he's stealing the car and selecting keys oh so nonchalantly has stuck itself firmly in my brain.
posted by ninazer0 at 3:07 AM on October 24, 2013
posted by ninazer0 at 3:07 AM on October 24, 2013
Sebmojo pay no attention to this then, just as I have done with Brigitte Bardot.
posted by timshel at 3:56 AM on October 24, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by timshel at 3:56 AM on October 24, 2013 [1 favorite]
Thanks for the post (and the blog recommendation), timshel. Désolé, but I enjoyed the mini-doc much more than the film. The Conformist, on the other hand...
posted by wensink at 6:44 AM on October 24, 2013
posted by wensink at 6:44 AM on October 24, 2013
Dear god I love this movie.
posted by lumpenprole at 11:03 AM on October 24, 2013
posted by lumpenprole at 11:03 AM on October 24, 2013
Le Samourai is the masterpiece, but don’t overlook Melville’s other very very good films, especially Le Cercle Rouge (also with Delon).
posted by LeLiLo at 2:35 PM on October 24, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by LeLiLo at 2:35 PM on October 24, 2013 [1 favorite]
The Conformist has a lot of great moments, I especially love the leaves, but then I'm a sucker for wind.
For me, Melville has always represented a kind of high-water mark for film noir in its most classic form. It's about as good as it gets without subverting the genre. Which isn't to say there aren't examples of excellent and modern film noir, but Melville seems to capture the sort essence. Although maybe it's just where I stopped looking.
I never knew he wore cowboy hats, but that's hilariously fitting for the man who was so into American culture that he took Herman Melville's surname as his own moniker, and filled the narrow Parisian streets in his movies with over-sized American cars.
posted by Flaffigan at 4:05 PM on October 24, 2013 [1 favorite]
For me, Melville has always represented a kind of high-water mark for film noir in its most classic form. It's about as good as it gets without subverting the genre. Which isn't to say there aren't examples of excellent and modern film noir, but Melville seems to capture the sort essence. Although maybe it's just where I stopped looking.
I never knew he wore cowboy hats, but that's hilariously fitting for the man who was so into American culture that he took Herman Melville's surname as his own moniker, and filled the narrow Parisian streets in his movies with over-sized American cars.
posted by Flaffigan at 4:05 PM on October 24, 2013 [1 favorite]
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