Melville. I still have a boxset of his films, from the days when I liked 40s and noir films. The colour in his films: they were colour, yet they were black & white. Style over substance, perhaps. Yet they could seem to tell a lot. An epic novel implied by a silent glance. Only clip I didn't recognise here was at 1.34. I guess it must have been Le Flic. I think I only saw it once. Hard to think of any successful effort to recapture 40s noir vibe in later film, except maybe Melville's frozen-in time films and Polanski's Chinatown and they go back to the late sixties and early seventies. 40s and 70s: surely the best decades for crime films. Walter Matthau wanted to do crime films. The one time he did, it worked very well: Charley Varrick. 1973. Same director as Dirty Harry. But a whole lot better, in my opinion. End of diversion. Historic vibes.
What carries through Melvilles work, is you dont need to know the language. He could make a silent movie and tell a story.
GLORY ¡ Thank you
Melville. I still have a boxset of his films, from the days when I liked 40s and noir films. The colour in his films: they were colour, yet they were black & white. Style over substance, perhaps. Yet they could seem to tell a lot. An epic novel implied by a silent glance. Only clip I didn't recognise here was at 1.34. I guess it must have been Le Flic. I think I only saw it once. Hard to think of any successful effort to recapture 40s noir vibe in later film, except maybe Melville's frozen-in time films and Polanski's Chinatown and they go back to the late sixties and early seventies. 40s and 70s: surely the best decades for crime films. Walter Matthau wanted to do crime films. The one time he did, it worked very well: Charley Varrick. 1973. Same director as Dirty Harry. But a whole lot better, in my opinion. End of diversion. Historic vibes.
Melville is the greatest director in the history of cinema and Le Samouraï is the greatest film ever made.💎
Yes. But should have been longer....
what is the name of this soundtrack?
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The first Is from army of Shadows (1969), the other Is from le samourai (1967), both are the Main theme of this movies