An American Cinematheque retrospective celebrates legendary French director Jean-Pierre Melville at 100 with nine essential titles.

A new video essay by Edwin Adrian Nieves, fittingly entitled “ Le Samourai: Jean-Pierre Melville’s Work of Art,” further explores the creation of this now-classic film. There’s some great ...

Actors playing lonesome and laconic hitmen who glide from one assignment to the next can learn a thing or two about rectitude and repose from Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai. Made in 1967 and ...

In their great, cold, ritualistic crime thriller “Le Samourai,” French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville and star Alain Delon opened up a chilling movie world of elegance, betrayal and murder: a ...

Whatever the idea of “canonized” suggests, few films of such order are quite so well-liked and perpetually referenced (or just ripped-off) as Le Samouraï, leaving me somewhat surprised we haven’t yet ...

French New Wave director Jean-Pierre Melville's celebrated portrait of a perfectionist, almost heroic killer inspired subsequent films on a similar theme by John Woo, Quentin Tarantino and others ...

Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samouraï stars French legend Alain Delon as Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts. The cast also includes François Périer, Nathalie Delon, and Caty Rosier.

In Brief: Jean-Pierre Melville's elegantly stylish, yet icy neo-noir thriller, Le Samouraï, holds up pretty nicely after 46 years, but it probably hasn't the same impact today that it originally ...

Paris is for lovers, and éclair connoisseurs, and culture-happy hedonists. Jef Costello, the taciturn protagonist of Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1967 existential masterpiece Le Samourai, is none of those ...

Over two years ago, director John Woo (and filmmaker John Hillcoat) was linked to a remake of Jean-Pierre Melville 's classic 1970 neo-noir Le Cercle Rouge (which translates to The Red Circle).

Le Samourai Oct. 25; Single disc: $29.95 Production: The Criterion Collection release of the 1967 film by Jean-Pierre Melville. Cast: With: Alain Delon, Francois Perier, Nathalie Delon and Cathy ...

A coming retrospective at New York’s Film Forum puts the spotlight on Jean-Pierre Melville, the French director behind such crime classics as Army of Shadows and Le Samouraï ...