Le Samouraï is The Original ‘Cool’ Hit Man w/ Director Richard Linklater | CineFix Top 100
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Le Samouraï popped up in the French New Wave and gave us the definitive image of the “cool Hit Man” that endures to this day, and so it only made sense that Clint, Cal and Alex welcome special guest and co-writer and director of Hit Man, Richard Linklater! The Academy Award nominated filmmaker chats about why people think retail hitmen actually exist, how Le Samouraï helped influence that belief and why the rest of the French New Wave looked up to Jean Pierre Melville and his incredible nom-de-guerre from the French Revolution.
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The “black and white, in color” is a perfect description. I even had a brief moment during the credits where I had to remind myself if the movie I had just watched was in B&W or not
I confused the words Yakuza and Jacuzzi, and now I'm in hot water with the Japanese Mafia.
I’m a big noir and neo-noir guy and watching this for the first time totally unlocked the missing piece between the classical Hollywood noirs and the more “modern” neo noir
Exact same experience i had . Saw it for the first time 2 months ago.
Two years ago I was able to see this movie in Paris, with no subtitles. It was an experience. I had seen the movie several times. But now I was free to focus on all subtle directing and performances. Then the surreal moment of waiting for a train in the same stations the brilliant chase sequence was shoot just an hour later.
Top 100's back! 😄
"We're still in between seasons 2 and 3" 😢
Watched Le Samourai for the first time last night for this episode, and was stunned. So good!
As happens surprisingly often, I find myself relating most to Alex Stedman's relationship with this movie. I watched it in preparation for finally catching up on this series, and I struggled a little bit to grasp why it has the reputation it does. But my appreciation of it deepened a lot as I was watching this episode, and now I'm sure I'll want to revisit it at some point. Good thing I bought the Criterion Blu-Ray. You guys should get sponsorship money from them, because if you keep featuring movies that are in the collection, I'm going to keep spending money on them that I can ill afford.
Timeless masterpiece. Melville was a genius.
Finally an old school movie I've seen before the Cinefix video about it :D Watched it a couple of months ago and it was great, awesome to see real spycraft/counter surveillance in a movie instead of what Hollywood normally does.
Are we getting more of these or no?
The top cop (François Périer) in that movie was Giulietta Masigna's rogue lover in "The Nights of Cabiria."
Decade + Country is just a wonderful way to do Top 10's. Sometimes just taking a snapshot at a place and time is enough because you can offer context and trends that are perhaps harder to hit in other lists. Please do!
When are the next episodes coming ?
So that’s 25 of the top 100 officially done.
just watched this. what a coincidence.
also, wow, love the insight into Linklater's new movie!
Came back here to pay my respects to Alain Delon, who passed away yesterday…rest in peace legend 🕊️💐
I have watched all of these so far and a recurring comment seems to be I haven’t seen this film so it wasn’t on my list. I think that once you have the final 100, you should all go back through the final 100, maybe with those that were replaced, and rerank the 100, now that you have all seen all of the films.
"I was, like, whoa". Enough said.
This is a good pick. Repo Man next week.
how could you talk about this movie without noticing the main role character of the fabulous music composed by Francois de Roubaix who is a genious composer. check him out!
This show has evolved into my roman empire. Does anyone know if any of the hosts are on Letterboxd?
When are you guys back for season 3 and is there somewhere I can go to for the latest updates between episodes/seasons?
You should definitely do a top 10 hit men list
Shame you arent back, back! Great ep though, thanks
What happened? This was 3 months ago. Did RUclips's algorithm cancel you?
The Day of the Jackal is also a good movie as well. A professional assassin is hired to kill Charles de Gaulle does sound pretty exciting.
"Something needs to happen in the first ten minutes" of this shows
Great idea there but how to pick? For UK you'd need to break down by genre too.
Richard Linklater is cool? In what universe?
Make more what,s the difference
And make World war Z What,s the difference
First
Well done. I hope it brings you joy.
overrated, maybe for top 200.
Huzzah! So glad you're back and weren't away too long!
I loved this episode, so cool that you got Richard Linklater on! I also love Le Samouraï, I watched it for the first time after learning it inspired Jim Jarmusch' Ghost Dog and John Woo's The Killer, but as much as I love Le Samouraï, I think my favorite Melville is Army of Shadows.
One of if not THE coolest movies ever made.
When, oh when, will the CinFix Top 100 return?
Great crossover with Linklater. Keep the good work.
Masina
Another incredible entry! This might the most stylish film ever made with Alain Delon as the epitome of cool
There's a lot of movies you can watch without subtitles. Like I was unable to get Nuovo Cinema Paradiso in a language I knew for the longest time and it was never a problem. Sound of Noise is great even though I have it only with Swedish subtitles (a language I kind of know, but not really). These are just the two examples that come to mind immediately, but considering that I was watching movies before I could read and still enjoyed them, it isn't that hard.
Great video, but did you give up on lists ?
Ngl... literally watched this film for the first time last weekend.
weird i put it on my watchlist last night then they upload this
Sorry all you all looking very well. The hairstyle and beard style be werking all! 👌🏾
Right ADHD distraction over. Sending this to my Dad as this the kinda of film my Pops would love.
Such an overrated movie. The guy was so so dumb
stay on your marvel sequels...
I watched this last year with a slew of other French crime movies. Honestly this movie does absolutely nothing for me. My main criticism, and this is spoilers, in all of these french films no matter how cool the criminals are, they all must be shot to death and never ever ever get away with their crimes. Maybe there was some sort of code that prevents an anti hero from winning at the time.
Perhaps this was fun at some point, I just think it's bizzare. The main character, Jef, is essentially a blank page with the single word "killer" scrawled and underlined in the corner of his character sheet. I found myself confused why I was supposed to care for this antihero other than "boy he's got that trenchcoat mafia style."
There is a point in the film where there is a narrative switch akin to Kurosawa's High and Low where the audience begins to follow the police in their attempt to capture Jef. Something just doesn't click during this transition. The cops are equally unlikeable despite their craftiness, and the film proceeds into a cat and mouse game between our zero personality Jef, and gruff brutalist police chief.
The chase itself is also odd, the collected Jef is suddenly spastic in mannerisms. The mental image of him barely clearing subway doors comes to mind. By films end, I only feel the words "alright... good“ cross my lips.
Well done, this is beautiful gibberish !