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Tag Archives: Alain Delon
June 2016 Viewing Diary
Homeland Season 3, Episode 4 “Game On” (2013; d. David Nutter) Hey, Nutter, what’s up? Thanks for the Supernatural pilot. Going on 12 seasons now, you set it up real good. I have now watched up until Season 5 of … Continue reading
Posted in Actors, Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television
Tagged Alain Delon, Alfred Hitchcock, Dennis Hopper, documentary, England, F. Scott Fitzgerald, family, France, Frank Capra, friends, Germany, Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Jack Nicholson, Jimmy Stewart, July and Half of August, Nicholas Ray, Nina Hoss, Olivia de Havilland, Patricia Highsmith, Raoul Walsh, Robert Redford, Stanley Kubrick, Supernatural, Wim Wenders
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May 2016 Viewing Diary
Supernatural, Season 3, Episode 5, “Bedtime Stories” (2007; d. Mike Rohl) So silly. Supernatural, Season 3, Episode 6, “Red Sky at Morning” (2007; d. Cliff Bole) I like this episode a lot. I don’t care that the SPN writers threw … Continue reading
This Movie Could Only Have Been Made in 1968
I love how the title of this movie describes absolutely what you will see in the film itself. It would be like giving Star Wars the title A Bunch of Space Ships Flying Around and Shooting At Each Other. Or … Continue reading
Supernatural: Season 1, Episode 6: “Skin”
Directed by Robert Duncan McNeil written by John Shiban Dark doubles are a recurring theme in Supernatural. What is more frightening, more eerie, than to think of there being another one of you out there, someone who looks like you, … Continue reading
Posted in Television
Tagged Alain Delon, Elia Kazan, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, John Shiban, Lana Turner, Quentin Tarantino, Sissy Spacek, SPN Season 1, Supernatural
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Tough Guys With Pets
Alan Ladd, ‘This Gun for Hire’ (1942) Alain Delon, ‘Le Samourai’ (1967) Charles Bronson, “Hard Times” (1975) Marlon Brando, “The Godfather” (1972)
Jef Costello in Le Samourai: What You See Is What You Get, But What Is That Exactly?
Let’s talk about Jef Costello, the lead character in Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai, played by Alain Delon. Let’s talk about what we know, which is just the information we get from the screen. (That’s pretty much all we get, anyway: … Continue reading
“He’s Not Normal.”– the Chief of Police on Jef Costello
Alain Delon as ‘Jef Costello’, “Le Samouraï” (1967) No, he sure isn’t.