Alain Delon – Stream On Demand

Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, and Claudia Cardinale star in Luchino Visconti's adaptation of Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s novel

Burt Lancaster is ‘The Leopard’ in Luchino Visconti’s masterpiece

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Blu-ray, Cannes winner, Classic Movie, Criterion, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, historical, International Classics, literary adaptation, SVOD 07/20/2021 Sean Axmaker

A lush, powerful, complex drama set during Italy’s 19th century revolution and one of the grand masterpieces of world cinema.

‘Le Cercle Rouge’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, caper, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Have You Seen...?, International Cinema, SVOD 09/28/2020 Sean Axmaker

Crime cinema has never been so meticulously and coolly executed as in Le cercle rouge (France, 1970). Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1970 heist classic stars Alain Delon and Gian Maria Volonte as coolly professional thieves, Yves Montand as a soused sharpshooter who regains his self-respect when he joins their team, and Andre Bouvril as the unrelenting cop […]

‘Any Number Can Win’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, caper, Criterion Channel, DVD, International Cinema, suspense 09/20/2020 Sean Axmaker

The classic meets the cool when dapper Jean Gabin teams up with smoldering matinee idol Alain Delon in Henri Verneuil’s caper film Any Number Can Win (France, 1963). White-haired Gabin is a little thick and doughy by this time in his career but he carries decades of French crime films and superstar gravitas with him […]

Alain Delon stars in the Jean-Pierre Melville French crime film classic

Jean-Pierre Melville’s ‘Le Samourai’ on Kanopy and The Criterion Channel

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Free, gangsters, International Cinema, international noir, Kanopy, neo-noir, SVOD 05/22/2019 Sean Axmaker

Alain Delon is the coolest killer hit the screen, a film noir loner for the modern era, in Jean-Pierre Melville’s austere 1967 French crime classic Le Samourai (France, 1967). Delon’s impassive hitman Jeff Costello is a professional’s professional, an assassin with a face of stone, nerves of ice, and the patience of a monk. He […]

Alain Demon in Jean-Pierre Melville's French crime classic

Criterion Blu-ray: Alexander Payne’s savagely funny ‘Election,’ plus ‘Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me,’ ‘Le Samouraï,’ and ‘Jabberwocky’

Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Collecton, DVD 12/18/2017 Sean Axmaker

Election (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) A wicked satire of power and (social) politics set in the overheated incubator of a high school student body election, Election (1999) is as sharp and perceptive now as it was in 1999. The confident second feature from director Alexander Payne and his screenwriting partner, Jim Taylor (coming off the critical […]

Blu-ray/DVD: ‘The Sicilian Clan’ with Jean Gabin and Alain Delon

Action, Blu-ray, DVD, Kino Lorber 03/19/2017 Sean Axmaker

Three of the great icons of French crime cinema team up for The Sicilian Clan (France, 1969) (Kino, Blu-ray, DVD). Jean Gabin is Vittorio Manalese, the head of the Sicilian Manalese clan in Paris, Alain Delon the reckless, amoral French criminal and killer Roger, who hires Vittorio’s clan to spring him from custody, and Lino […]