ALAIN DELON! We're so mad about him that we're doing a retrospective of his work. Would you care to join in our madness?
The week of May 10th we will be showing the new 4K restoration of LE SAMOURAI and two weeks later we will have a whole week including 6 Alain Delon classics: LA PISCINE, LE CERCLE ROUGE, THE LEOPARD, MR. KLEIN, PURPLE NOON, and ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS.
Info and schedule of each film is listed below. See you at the movies!
Le Samouraï
New 4K Restoration
May 10th - 16th
Fri: 4:00pm
Sat: 1:30pm & 6:30pm
Sun: 12:15pm & 5:00pm
Mon/Wed: 2:45pm & 7:30pm
Tues/Thurs: 5:00pm
In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts. After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef 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. An elegantly stylized masterpiece of cool by maverick director Jean‑Pierre Melville, Le samouraï is a razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture—with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology.
Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville
Written by Jean-Pierre Melville, Georges Pellegrin
Starring Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, Cathy Rosier
1h 45m
La Piscine
4K Restoration
May 31 - June 6
Sat: 11:30am
Mon: 4:45pm
Wed: 7:30pm
Jean-Paul and Marianne indulge in their passion for each other while borrowing a friend's luxurious villa in the south of France. When the friend and his daughter arrive unexpectedly, rivalries and insecurities surface and events take a sinister turn.
Directed by Jacques Deray
Written by Jacques Deray
Starring Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Jane Birkin
Released in 1969
2h 4m
Le Cercle Rouge
4K Restoration
May 31 - June 6
Fri: 11:30am
Sun: 4:30pm
Tues: 7:30pm
Thurs: 1:00pm
Four men, including a recently-released criminal and an alcoholic ex-cop, come together to execute a meticulously planned jewel heist.
Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville
Written by Jean-Pierre Melville
Starring Alain Delon, Bourvil, Yves Montand, Gian Maria Volonté
Released in 1970
2h 20m
The Leopard
May 31 - June 6
Sat: 5:00pm
Mon: 1:00pm
Wed: 3:45pm
Palme d'Or winner at Cannes Film Festival
Academy Award nominee for Best Costume Design
Golden Globe nominee for New Star of the Year for Alain Delon
The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily.
Directed by Luchino Visconti
Written by Suso Cecchi d'Amico
Enrico Medioli, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Luchino Visconti, René Barjavel
Starring Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon, Paolo Stoppa, Rina Morelli, Romolo Valli, Serge Reggiani, Terence Hill
Released in 1963
3h 6m
Mr. Klein
May 31 - June 6
Sat: 2:15pm
Mon: 7:30pm
Wed: 1:00pm
Thurs: 7:30pm
Palme d'Or nominee at Cannes Film Festival
César Award winner for Best Film, Director and Production Design
César Award nominee for Best Actor (Delon), Cinematography, and Editing
In Occupied France, Mr. Klein exploits the situation of the Jews by buying and selling their works of art. When a Jewish man of the same name surfaces in Paris, Klein comes under suspicion and experiences the persecution of his countrymen firsthand.
Directed by Joseph Losey
Written by Franco Solinas, Fernando Morandi
Starring Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Michael Lonsdale, Francine Bergé, Juliet Berto, Massimo Girotti, Suzanne Flon
Released in 1976
2h 3m
Purple Noon
May 31 - June 6
Fri: 2:30pm
Sun: 7:30pm
Tues: 5:00pm
This colorful adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s vicious novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, stars Delon as Tom Ripley, a duplicitous American charmer in Rome on a mission to bring his privileged, devil-may-care acquaintance Philippe Greenleaf back to the United States. What initially seems a carefree tale of friendship soon morphs into a thrilling saga of seduction, identity theft, and murder.
Directed by René Clément
Written by René Clément, Paul Gégauff
Starring Alain Delon, Marie Laforêt, Maurice Ronet
Released in 1960
1h 57m
Rocco and his Brothers
May 31 - June 6
Fri: 5:00pm
Sun: 12:45pm
Tues: 1:30pm
Thurs: 4:00pm
BAFTA Award nominee for Best Film and Best Foreign Actress
Golden Lion Award nominee, winner of Special Jury Prize and PRESCIENCE Prize at Venice Film Festival
Looking for opportunity, five brothers move north with their mother to Milan. There, Simone and Rocco find fame, in the boxing ring, and love, in the same woman.
Directed by Luchino Visconti
Written by Luchino Visconti, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Enrico Medioli, Massimo Franciosa, Pasquale Festa Campanile
Starring Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Katina Paxinou, Roger Hanin, Spiros Focás, Paolo Stoppa, Suzy Delair, Claudia Cardinale
Released in 1960
2h 59m