The Criterion Collection has released some on discs. I also recommend Bob Le Flambeur.
10/25/67: Jean-Pierre Melville's masterpiece Le Samouraï w/Alain Delon
— MidCenturyCinema (@MidCenturyCinem) October 24, 2023
Stunning film w H/Ts to noir gems Gun for Hire, Asphalt Jungle
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"My story takes place at night because that is the time for writing love letters. Any story set in a big city should start at about 6 in the evening and end with the dawn." 🖤 French master Jean-Pierre Melville (#BOTD)—a renegade artist who made movies according to his own rules. pic.twitter.com/oWUZoRI5ce
— Criterion Collection (@Criterion) October 20, 2023
10/25/72: Jean-Pierre Melville's last, Un Flic, w/Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, Richard Crenna
— MidCenturyCinema (@MidCenturyCinem) October 24, 2023
Opening sequence remains unsurpassed
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"Jean-Pierre Melville, a close student of American moviemaking, made a series of genuinely great, extremely elegant, intricate, & lovingly crafted gangster pictures, in which criminals & cops stick to a code of honor like knights in the age of chivalry."
— DepressedBergman (@DannyDrinksWine) October 20, 2023
— Martin Scorsese pic.twitter.com/zbdZtPBOY9
"White gloves are a tradition with me; all my killers wear them. They are editor’s gloves." -Jean-Pierre Melville pic.twitter.com/E6amRw4DKv
— Janus Films (@janusfilms) January 24, 2024
10/25/67 Jean-Pierre Melville's masterpiece Le Samouraï w/Alain Delon
— MidCenturyCinema (@MidCenturyCinem) October 25, 2024
Stunning film w H/Ts to noir gems Gun for Hire, Asphalt Jungle
More
-Us: https://t.co/lLmXSqQRml
–@jpraup: https://t.co/MgEfZ4kReZ
–@AskDebruge: https://t.co/1KusquQRMw
–@BeverlyTheater: https://t.co/GYYBboHIzU
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