#dir. René Clément

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Alain Delon

Purple Noon

1960

dir. René Clément

Alain Delon in Purple Noon Plein soleil (1960) dir. René Clément

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Purple Noon (1960) dir. René Clément

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‘Purple Noon’ (1960) dir. René Clément

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Alain Delon Plein Soleil | Purple Noon Dir: René Clément

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Les Félins (1964). dir. René Clément

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Purple Noon (1960) dir.  René Clément

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Purple Noon - Plein Soleil (1960) Dir. René Clément

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ten frames.

plein soleil — dir. rené clément

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I was tagged by the lovely and talented @goldenhare and @fieryphrazes to share my top 9 new-to-me movies of the year—I will definitely be raiding your lists to add to mine! Titles are in poster order, not ranked or anything. I've been working my way through a long list of 60s films this year, and had a hard time remembering any recent ones to add (you don't want to know how close I came to including Goncharov). Anyway, these have been the standouts! I'm really struggling not to write little reviews here.

Alphaville (1965) dir. Jean-Luc Godard

Anatomy of a Fall (2023) dir. Justine Triet. You'll all know this one, but it was such a pleasure to watch without any knowledge of what it was about.

War and Peace (1966-1967) dir. Sergei Bondarchuk. Yes, this was over 7 hours long, but what of it? What fascinated me about this film is that it was conceived sort of in retaliation against the 1956 American film starring Audrey Hepburn, which was a big hit. Surely the Russians could interpret this story better! And they were right, they could and did. The other thing is that the director cast himself in the lead romantic role, despite being too old for the part, because again, he was convinced no one else could do it justice. Knowing this, I assumed I would dislike his performance, but I was wrong.

Revenge of a Kabuki Actor (1963) dir. Kon Ichikawa

World on a Wire (1973) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Somehow, this film was Blade Runner a decade before Blade Runner. I always leave Fassbinder film wanting to watch it again right away, and this was no exception.

Plein Soleil (1960) dir. René Clément. This is the first film to have adapted The Talented Mr Ripley!

The Trial (1962) dir. Orson Welles.

L'Amour Fou (1969) dir. Jacques Rivette. This is not my favourite Rivette film (to date, that is Out 1), but you can see the origins of his later, more complex films here.

All of Us Strangers (2023) dir. Andrew Haigh. Ough.

I'll tag @thedoubteriswise, @featuresofinterest, @waitedforgarridebs, @cahootings, @sidneypagget, and whoever else would like to be tagged!

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Movies I enjoyed in 2024 🎬

Thanks for tagging me, @booksandabeer 🍻

Rules: post 9 films you saw for the first time this year and enjoyed, brand new or not but that are new to you, then tag 9 people.

My main criterion for picking these ended up being which films continue to haunt me, such that I think about them regularly—they gnaw at me a little. And I will happily admit that's a funny operational definition of "enjoy." All the same, here are my first-seen-in-2024 picks:

Z (dir. Costa-Gavras)

Funny Ha Ha (dir. Andrew Bujalski)

All That Jazz (dir. Bob Fosse)

Plein Soleil / Purple Noon (dir. René Clément)*

Yukinojō Henge / An Actor's Revenge (dir. Kon Ichikawa)

This Gun For Hire (dir. Frank Tuttle)

Breaking the Waves (dir. Lars von Trier)

Tiny Furniture (dir. Lena Dunham)

Meghe Dhaka Tara / The Cloud-Capped Star (dir. Ritwik Ghatak)

* Seeing Plein Soleil on a gorgeous newly restored 35mm print was one of the highlights of my film-watching year!

This has been going around for a little, so if you'd like to play and haven't, I'm tagging @village-skeptic, @bromcommie, @arctic-turtle-cassiopeia, @theelectricpeach, @moggett, @between-a-ship-and-a-hard-place, @jandjsalmon, @musette22 and @onecontinuoussigh.

(And if you have played and I missed your list, I'd love to see it!)

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𝗔𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗻 em Plein Soleil (dir. René Clément, 1960).

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ALAIN DELON PURPLE NOON PLEIN SOLEIL (1960) dir. René Clément

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Plein soleil (1960)

dir. by René Clément

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This Angry Age, Italian-French-U.S. drama (in English), featuring Silvana Mangano, Anthony Perkins, Richard Conte and Jo Van Fleet, dir. René Clément, written by Irwin Shaw and René Clément, based on the novel Barrage contre le Pacifique by Marguerite Duras. 1957. Bad copy but the only one available.

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Alain Delon Plein Soleil | Purple Noon Dir: René Clément

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I might not look it, but I've got lots of imagination.

Plein Soleil (1960). dir. René Clément