"LE SAMOURAI" - Everything But the Girl

Alain Delon plays a contract killer in his career -defining performance. A razor sharp cocktail of 1940's American gangster cinema and 1960's French pop culture - with a literal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology thrown in, director Jean-Pierre Melville's masterpieces defines cool.
The music for my tribute is "Each and Every One" by Everything But the Girl.

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[icetemper]

SPLENDID

[billysscreeningroom2]

@icetemper Thank you very much! Much appreciated.

[408BU]

Excellent where did you find this image source ? on DVD ??? or in mysterious magical video bank ?!?!

[billysscreeningroom2]

@408BU On DVD. I make all my films from the original DVD's.

[vicepresidentfru1tly]

God, so cool! I have to see this. Alain Delon is the man!

[johnnywolfnyc]

Gorgeous song, and I swear your editing has the same Samba, syncopative, symbiotic sway to it. Subliminal maybe.... Nah... tis Rick-land... where EVERY moment is chosen, caressed, loved and shared. :)

[krysia1957]

przecudne......)))))

[guzicaguzica]

i watched le samourai, le cercle rouge and les armees des ombres. all of these meliville's films are excellent. to bad he died at zenith of his inspiration.

[auzatmagne]

Salut Rick,

I give an information to you, you forgot «e» in the title « Le Samouraï ».

Pam 2 Pau

France

[buddha4321]

Excellent adaptation! Music and movie,

[solcab75]

This MOVIE is a knockout example of communicating a lot while saying very little in cinema terms...

[LaserdiscFan]

Been wanting to see this movie ever since I heard this was one of John Woo's inspirations for "The Killer"

[JansenPM]

With such visual performances, they would have still been great without any dialogue.

[NuJazzCrooner]

Can't say enough about this film. I appreciate this music video as much as the film. Anyway, I finally purchased "L'Samourai" on DVD, the Criterion Collection Edition. It's truly one of the top five most stylistic/visually beautiful films that I have ever seen, a very intimate film. "L'Samourai" has so much class that it hurts. It's American/French Noir, along with a Japanese Cinema influence. It's a lot like the much loved anime, "Cowboy Bebop". I've got to buy 1965's "Pierrot le fou" now.