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Le Samouraï

Midnight weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights (meaning arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating, the movie starts after midnight)!

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville Run Time: 100 min. Format: Audio Amplification Available Release Year: 1967 Language: French

Starring: Alain Delon, Cathy Rosier, François Périer, Michel Boisrond, Nathalie Delon

This elegantly stylized masterpiece of cool by maverick director Jean‑Pierre Melville is a razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture—with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology. After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him.

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