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.’

Via Janus Films
Alain Delon in 'Le Samourai' (1967). Via Janus Films

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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