Film Forum Celebrating an Essential Actor, Alain Delon, and a Cinematic Masterpiece, ‘Le Samouraï’
A new 4K restoration of the movie is being shown leading into a 10-film series dedicated to the French actor. The title of the program, appropriately enough, is ‘Delon.’

What movie starlet of yore stated that she would never appear in a film with Alain Delon because it wouldn’t be right if the male lead were more beautiful than the heroine? My memory tells me Janet Leigh, a factoid left unconfirmed by a cursory internet trawl. Whatever the case, the handsomeness of Mr. Delon — he’s still with us, by the way, at 88 years of age — has never been in question, nor, for that matter, the comeliness of his leading ladies.
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