#samourai noir

[filmnoirfoundation]

Tickets now on sale for NOIR CITY Hollywood!

Highlights include opening night reception prior to the screening of our latest restoration "Never Open That Door", a nitrate screening of "Nightmare Alley" and the West Coast premiere of the new 4K digital restoration of "Le Samouraï". Introductions by Alan K. Rode and Eddie Muller. "Never Open That Door" restoration performed by UCLA Film & Television Archive.

Schedule and tickets: https://bit.ly/3Ij9Mc2

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Alain Delon

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Le Samourai (1967)

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Le Samouraï (1967)

I have not felt motivated to watch Richard Linklater’s undercover cop comedy Hit Man since it hit Netflix, but I did happen to catch its opening half-hour in the holiest of cinematic venues: muted on the TV at my neighborhood bar.  The one sequence that caught my eye while I was enjoying my banh mi and cocktail that evening was an early montage of classic film clips in which Glen Powell’s…

[lesbiancolumbo]

noir city chicago screening of le samourai is gonna go even crazier than before

[glassconfined]

saw headcanons: favorite film

starting when he was young, peter strahm developed a love for foreign media. i think noir/crime films are his favorite genre—but le samourai, starring alain delon, is his all time favorite.

i imagine mark hoffman’s most enjoyed films tend to be stephen king adaptations. misery falls high on his list.

lawrence gordon loves old movies, i feel. like peter, there’s enjoyment of foreign films—in lawrence’s case, he likes german expressionist films. i believe M, starring peter lorre, would be one of his favorite movies. not number one, but one he definitely loved. though it’s french, not german, i bet the doctor side of him would appreciate les yeux sans visage.

adam stanheight is an absolute film buff. while the aspirations of being a veterinarian were snuffed out by his bad grades, i imagine film school still enticed him. it felt so natural to be behind a camera, after all. again, i think adam has an appreciation for foreign media, too, namely japanese media. kaiju films & the japanese horror genre in general thrills him, especially the 1977 film House. yet, i’m not sure if i’d call it his favorite. i’d say his favorite would be a dario argento film, likely suspiria or opera.

art blank . . . i imagine he likes thrillers & suspenseful movies. things with a big twist, like the sixth sense! for his favorite, i have to go with primal fear, starring a young edward norton.

scott tibbs loves horror movies, not that this would surprise anyone. the gorier, the better. unfortunately, this isn’t my realm of expertise, so it’s difficult for me to pick one i know well enough to confidently say would be his favorite. i think, at the very least, he’d get a kick out of house of 1000 corpses—i hear it is very gory and the trailer looks kinda silly, which i don’t think would deter him.

[best-movie-ever-tournament]

Seven Samourais:

What can even be said? Directed by the visionary Akira Kurosawa, who pioneered many of the most foundational filmmaking techniques used to this day. The film is exciting and compelling, every shot is art, and its legacy on the industry is yet to be overshadowed. It consistently makes top ten on ‘best films of all time’ lists to this day, rated the best foreign language film of all time by the BBC. All the actors are great, Toshiro Mifune is hot, the soundtrack by Fumio Hayasaka is iconic, and the film was technically magnificent for the time, with the techniques and effects frankly still blowing many modern blockbusters out of the water (ahem. marvel.) The film is also one of the most remade and reimagined films to date. Particularly of note is that The Magnificent Seven, one of the most famous films of all time (and criminally much more well-known than Seven Samurai) is explicitly a direct remake of Seven Samurai with the setting swapped. Frankly it’s no contest. All of Kurosawa’s films are brilliant, and were massively influential for their own reasons, but Seven Samurai is such a seminal piece of cinematic history that not including it would be nigh a crime.

Seven rōnin are hired to protect a village from bandits. This film has such a classic set-up and has been remade several times over (See: The Magnificent Seven, The Invincible Six, A Bug's Life honestly...). However, I personally think the original did it best. It's got the best action, the best characters (Toshiro Mifune my beloved), and just the best general direction. For a film that's over 3 hours, not a second of it feels wasted.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari:

Arguably the first TRUE horror film! The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a majorly influential German silent film from 1920, very easily streamed all over the place including YouTube! It had a tremendous impact on German and American cinema, especially in horror and later noir films, and featured fantastical elements of surrealism in its depictions and architecture that are incredibly endearing. The film is a tale of love, hypnotism, and murder. Fantastic plot twist for an early film, and Cesare is very very gender.

[lilias42]

Identifiez quelqu'un que vous voulez mieux connaître OU à qui vous voulez simplement dire bonjour !

Merci beaucoup à @ladyniniane de m'avoir tagué ! On va tenté de répondre à tout ça !

Couleur préférée : Le rouge de très loin ! Ensuite, le blanc et le noir

Dernière chanson : Ma Fée de Manau. Je me suis refait toute sa discographie cette semaine au boulot vu que je fais des trucs trèèès ennuyeux, et cette chanson est de loin ma préférée de toutes, elle décrit vraiment bien comment je voie la créativité et l'imagination en tout genre !

Série en cours : Infinity Train. J'ai vu juste la saison 1 de cette série d'anthologie mais, elle est vraiment bien dans son côté absurde avec peu de sens mais, qui arrive à en avoir un quand on voie l'ensemble de la saison, avec des persos très attachants (j'aime beaucoup Tulip et honnêtement, à l'épisode 8-9, j'ai sauté sur le wiki pour savoir comment finissait Atticus et si ce serait positif ou pas pour me préparer) En plus, vu que je ne l'ai trouvé qu'en VOSTFR, c'est une des rares séries que je regarde vraiment, pas juste l'écouter en faisant autre chose donc, c'est assez apaisant et les épisodes sont assez courts pour que cela ne m'agace pas de ne rien faire de mes mains trop longtemps.

Lecture en cours : Elusive Samourai. Ce manga est trop cool ! Le côté historique est surtout pour la forme mais, tous les personnages sont hauts en couleurs et plaisant à lire, surtout le héros qui est assez original et très attachant ! En plus, je le lis avec ma meilleure amie donc, c'est encore mieux de pouvoir en discuter avec elle !

Travail en cours : mes différents travaux pour la FE OC Week, surtout mon introduction qui sera sous forme de BD et donc est très chronophage mais, mon encrage est quasi fini, elles sont toutes à cette étape-là à part quelque petits raccords (il manque juste une page que je dois toute refaire et je procrastine), et j'aurais moins de couleurs à faire donc, on tient le bon bout, ça devrait être bon pour le Jour-J ! Pour la suite de ma fic en cours, elle est en pause le temps que la week se finisse.

Obsession en cours : La FE OC WEEK !!! J'ai tellement hâte ! Bon, comme toujours, je suis en retard car pour ce genre de chose, j'ai toujours l'impression d'être en retard mais, j'ai trop trop trop hâte d'y être et de vous présenter tout le monde !

Je tague toute personne qui passe et qui a envie de participer ! Faites vous plaisir !

[lonesomemao]

LE PAYS DANS LE CIEL

SAUCE SAMOURAI

NOus avons une bonne nouvelle

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Théâtre japonais traditionnel

Exclusivement masculin

Joué pour les samouraï et les shoguns

Sauce Samouraï

Pour moi Sam Sun

L'Homme Asiatique le Droit

Petits yeux noirs il a

Influence de l'Amérique

ONU New-York place stratégique

Wall Street pour le financier et l'économique

Mercredi 1er mai

[venus-haze]

can you give some recs from the film noir list you reblogged??

Yes! Besides horror, film noir (both US and international) is probably the genre I watch the most. I absolutely love it, and I’ve actually written articles on several of the films on the list.

The Glass Key

Double Indemnity

Spellbound

Leave Her to Heaven

The Big Sleep

The Postman Always Rings Twice

Dark Passage

Nightmare Alley

Rope

They Live By Night

Edge of Doom

Gun Crazy

Sunset Boulevard

M

Strangers on a Train

Niagara

The Night of the Hunter

Les Diaboliques

Vertigo

Le Samourai (not on the list but highly recommend!)

🦇 Battie

[signalwatch]

Neo-Noir Watch: The Driver (1978)

Watched:  01/01/2023

Format:  DVD

Viewing:  First

Director:  Walter Hill

I'm doing some prep work as SGH and I are in talks to do a podcast on Drive from about a decade ago.  At the time Drive came out, a lot of folks said "oh, this is influenced by The Driver from 1978."  And I'd always meant to go check that movie out.  

I think it's a definitive "well, maybe kinda sorta".  They are absolutely both movies about career criminal getaway drivers in LA.  Both are neo-noir.  But this is like seeing a movie about an assassin and seeing the next movie about an assassin and saying "well, clearly these two movies are same".  

Arguably, The Driver (1978) borrows from some of those assassin movies like Le Samourai or This Gun for Hire.  Rather than a hit-man, we have a guy with no past we'll ever learn about, who has locked up his life to protect himself and perfect his chosen profession - with the mechanisms he's used to protect himself actually creating a lockbox when things go sideways.  He has no friends, no family, no name.  He simply exists to do the job. 

The movie is clever about this - no characters have names.  Everyone is a role.  The Driver (Ryan O'Neal).  The Detective (Bruce Dern at his Bruce Derniest).  The Player (Isabella Adjani).  The Connection (Ronee Blakley).  And - and this is where this film deviates wildly from Drive - the film is about the game everyone is playing, openly acknowledged.  It's the world's greatest ARG.  There's no real stakes for the cops - win or lose, it's just spending tax dollars.  But for the folks playing on the high stakes criminal side, it's jail, death or being flat broke.  

Anyway - I enjoyed it.  I'd watch it again.  It's interesting in that it's both a bit more abstracted from a straight crime film, but also has nothing in particular that it's trying to say.  It's much more about how it's presenting a concept, and I'm down with that, too.  I suspect that when this came out, that approach was saying something, in itself.  But we've got a lot of water between 2023 and 1978.

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Le Samourai (1967)

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Le Samouraï - Jean-Pierre Melville (1967)

Poster design by George Probonas.

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alain delon.

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The melvillian hero is a man from another time who accomplishes his fate in a world he has already left.

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Le samouraï (1967) Jean-Pierre Melville